I have been traveling in time ... Ive heard a memorable voice for the first time in over 50 years. Truman Bradley was the host of a wonderful 1950s era TV show called Science Fiction Theater .. It was a half-hour series featuring SF stories and utilizing different actors each week. Its dated, of course, but wonderful, nonetheless. If youre a geezer check it out on You-Tube and remember. If youre a youngster, watch it so you can laugh at it (or us) -- or perhaps catch a glimmer of the fascination and excitement that science and our vision of the future brought to the world. Star Trek came later ... In its own way, this show was better, far better. rb You-Tube has this to say about the series: Hosted by Truman Bradley, a 1940s film actor and former war correspondent, each episode introduced stories which had an extrapolated scientific, or pseudo-scientific emphasis based on actual scientific data available in the 1950s. Typically, the story lines related to the life or work of scientists, engineers, inventors and explorers. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robots, telepathy, flying saucers, time travel, and the intervention of extraterrestrials in human affairs. Airing a total of 78 25--26 min. episodes, the series was also known as Beyond the Limits in second run syndication during the 1960s and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater. Opposite to what happened in the 1960s, the first season was filmed in color, but to cut costs the second season was in black & white. The producers had originally thought that color TV would progress faster than it did. Science Fiction Theatre was a forerunner of similar shows, such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. The show is probably best known to modern audiences, for having been prominently referenced in the movie Back to the Future (1985), as George McFlys favorite television program.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 04:25:51 +0000
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