Science Fiction Theatre

Although not all of the people nowadays areLimits and The Twilight Zone. The program was
familiar with the TV series, Science Fictioneven mentioned in the Back to the Future film in
Theatre, it still has its own fan base that are very1985, which starred Michael J. Fox and Christopher
much into the series until now. In fact, thereLloyd. Coincidentally, an actor named Michael Fox
might be even children or grandchildren of peoplewas also one of the most frequent actors that
who were fond of this series in the past thatstarred in the episodes of the program.
know of this and even have collections of theLooking back on the episodes of Science Fiction
series' episodes or are interested in getting copiesTheatre, it can be remembered by those who
of them.were fond of the science program that each
Science Fiction Theatre was actually a syndicatedepisode had an introduction that consisted of a
anthology series based on science fiction. Thestirring fanfare of string, brass and woodwind.
producers of this US series are Maurice Ziv andThis musical score was played while the camera
Ivan Tors while its host was Truman Bradley. Aslowly panned over the infamous science
former correspondent during war, Bradley waslaboratory of the program. Although he is not
also a film actor during the 1940s. Each episode ofcredited for it, it is believed that the introductory
the series presented stories which hadscore of the program was a composition of Ray
pseudo-scientific or extrapolated importance andBloch. After the intro, host Truman Bradley would
was based on authentic scientific data that wasthe show a scientific experiment that could only
made available during the 1950s. The program'sbe described as relatively simple but which has a
focus was more on such ideas as robots, flyingconnection to the topic of the show on a given
saucers, space flight, time travel, telepathy andweek. Although the demonstrations presented by
the extraterrestrials' alleged intervention in theBradley were mostly staged, the results that they
affairs of humans.yielded were really in harmony with the true
The program which ran since 1955 until 1957 hadexperiments' outcome. Because of the intense
78 episodes all in all that ran for a half hour each.scheduling of the production of the ZIV episodic
In its second run syndication in the 1960s, theshows for television and also because of budget
program was also called Beyond the Limits andconstraints, the scientific apparatus and even
Science Fiction Theater, alternatively. In allthose that were not that scientific that were
actuality, Science Fiction Theatre was known toused in the shows appeared time and time again
be the predecessor of such shows bearing theas multi-function props.
same genre and among these are The Outer