bobodude This series has to be one of the best science fiction program ever to air on TV. My dad always watched this program when I was a kid and I got caught up in the stories just as my dad. We would sit down after dinner, all huddled around the old black and white TV waiting for that familiar theme song. It was at least one thing the whole family participated in. After 50 yrs of total obscurity, it has resurfaced on DVD and I bought all 76 episodes off Ebay. The science behind the stories,for the most part, still hold up to this day. Some of the stories were pretty far fetched and hard to believe. Even though most of the predictions of things to come have not materialized, it's a kick to see how they thought about the future and what it would bring. His demonstrations were very well done and I felt like we were in a physics class. It is a delight to revisit those days even though the copies vary wildly in quality, they are still very watchable. I wish they would have made all the episodes in color but that didn't happen in the second season due to budget restraints.

Rotwanger I was only about 4 years old but I recall almost as if it were yesterday something I saw on the show. I remember Adolphe Menjou being associated with the show in some way as host or actor. In this memorable episode, a man was demonstrating a piece of metal foil produced by extraterrestrial technology. This "foil" could not be cut with scissors but even more amazingly, it could not be penetrated when a bullet was fired at it from point blank range. A third feature was that when it was balled up and tossed upon a table it would flatten itself out perfectly. ALL of these features were described by the rancher who took home pieces of the Roswell UFO crash site. In my thirties I read these details and remembered that I had seen this before on TV in the 1950's. To my mind, it seems that "someone" was releasing information about ET technology many many years before nearly any facts at all were released to the public. This TV episode took my thinking about UFO's far beyond the "mysterious lights of swamp gas". In addition to that, this alien foil would have served as a bit of physical evidence that skeptics would have to accept as irrefutable proof of the existence of UFO's. DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THIS EPISODE ????????? Please respond .......................

Joe I've noticed lately that Science Fiction Theater is available on DVD for the entire run of the show. But it does look as if it's made from available sources. That usually means it could have a lot of poor quality images by being made from old VHS recordings. Just wondered if anyone has purchased the set, and if so, is it worth the money? I've seen it advertised at $49.99 from the source, which doesn't seem to be a mainstream distributor, and also on e-bay for prices about $29.99 stating that it is for new un-opened sets. But I guess at that price it would be worth it even if it isn't great quality.It was always a treat to watch it back in 1956 and 1957. I think it was the first show of it's type that I had encountered. Watched it once and I was hooked. Had to see it every chance I got after that. Being only 8 years old in 1956, I still have fond memories of it. And as someone else mentioned the parabolic disc antenna, yeah, it caught my eye too. There was one almost exactly like it atop the Southern California Edison building in Pomona, California. I gazed at it every time my parents would drive past that building. Wondered what secrets it held!

bcolquho This series was an eyeopener for a 19-year-old in 1978. That'swhen I first saw it. I was living in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, atthe time and I was in high school. Channel 6, the local NBCaffiliate in Portland, Maine, used to air old science fiction moviesfrom the '50s and '60s. Back during the dark days of the Cold War. It started running them back in 1975, when I was in the eighthgrade. Back then, there weren't any cable or sattelite companies screaming for your attentiion. The Sci-Fi Channel? It wasn't even thought of. The stories were based on the latest, (meaning '50s), scientific data. Since this was before the space race, the majority of stories were on the exploration space. There was one episode in which an Air Force test pilot was in a Bell X-2, I think it was, Idon't know. Anyway, he reported another aircraft alongside himand it was keeping up with him. He's reporting all this to theground controllers at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and they'retelling him they don't see a thing. It's not on their radar. Then at the end, as he slows down and prepares to land, the other aircraft disappears. It then dawns on both him and the controllers, thatmust have been a UFO. In another episode, Mars colonists are putin isolation to see which one of them will crack first. The catch was that since they'd be away from Earth for what would be the betterpart of a year, they all had to be unmarried and not have families. They also had to be all-male because in the '50s, they didn't have women on space colonies. So what happened? One of the would-be colonists freaked out. Demanding his electric razor. That would be me. I'd probably do the same. Then one of the other would-be colonists turns up dead. It appears to the audience itwas the guy who freaked out and demanded his electric razor is the killer. But is he? I don't know. It's been 26 years since I've seenit. But anyway, it was a good show and aired right after the oldblack-and-white science fiction movies.