Comments on: Let’s hear it for the “Science Fiction Theater” theme https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 02 Aug 2023 05:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Brian https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-736067 Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:52:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-736067 Not only do I remember watching that show, but in high school band, we played the theme song! I don’t remember the full title but it was ‘Tiara …” (something – symphony, overture, something like that).

I WISH I could remember the full title!

]]> By: Michelle https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-126508 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:53:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-126508 There is a book about SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE due for release in early 2010. Documents the entire history of the series, with complete episode guide. The http://www.MartinGrams.com web-site features LOTS of behind-the-scenes photos of the series which are really cool.

]]> By: John Costello https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123297 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:37:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123297 We have SF Theater around today because it was syndicated and, therefore, filmed. Tales of Tomorrow was kinescoped, as were most of the other shows. SF theater filmed a Zenna Hendersoin =peoople story (no credit given) while around 1960 a sunday night anthology seriies did “A is for Android,” an adaptation of Bester’s Fondly Farenheit starring the late Suzanne Pleschette and Rip Torn.

]]> By: Adrian https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123281 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:30:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123281 I know this isn’t the place for such debates, but I’m baffled that anyone could label Outer Limits as hokey! Save maybe a casual viewer catching an off episode. On the whole it was brilliantly conceived and thought provoking compared to the sheer entertainment of Twilight Zone. With the excellent camera work of Conrad Hall, and great story’s like the Architects of Fear, The Premonition and Demon with A Glass Hand, it provided some truly (for its day) terrifying moments in television.

sorry- had to get that out of my system. Meanwhile Youtube’s greatest benefit is providing access to those little nostalgic bits we never expected to see again.

]]> By: Sam L. https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123118 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:27:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123118 I don’t remember that show at all, likely because we only got 2 TV stations and neither carried it.

But the music–it seems familiar.

]]> By: Wallace https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123114 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:55:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123114 And in episode 1-10, escapees from other popular TV series of the day, explain how “a telepathic chimp saves a scientist and his wife from a killer”. Really! Sorry I missed that one.

The episode starred Hugh Beaumont from “Leave it to Beaver”, and Barbara Hale from “Perry Mason”.

]]> By: anonymess https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123065 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:44:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123065 Hearing the theme music from Science Fiction Theatre produces an immediate wave of nostalgia in me. It takes me back to the mid-1950s when my three brothers and I would stop our squabbling for half an hour as we huddled together to watch Truman Bradley take us on an enjoyable, sometimes scary, journey of science and imagination.

Production values, etc., meant little to us at the time. It never occurred to me, for instance, that the science demos were staged. But I do agree with Jim C. that many were—including the voice activated typewriter in the demo here; it is typing a word to a word-and-a-half ahead of Truman Bradley’s introduction speech. Well I can’t fault the show too much, after all it was Science FICTION Theatre.

]]> By: GeoPal https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123052 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:24:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123052 Science Fiction Theater ran ’55 to ’57 (first run). Liked it a lot, remember it fondly, cheap production values and all (what did I know). Here’s more information from IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047767/

And get that a load of that rating – almost 8.5.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123047 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:15:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123047 I don’t remember that show. What years did it run? The beginning clip was in color which would seem to date it to the early to mid 60s.

I’m too young to have seen any of those shows when they first aired; or if I did see them I was too young to remember them. I discovered Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and One Step Beyond through reruns as a teenager in the early 70s. Maybe Science Fiction Theater was never shown much in reruns.

Now that I think of it, it’s been ages since I saw an episode of Outer Limits or One Step Beyond, although the Sci Fi channel still shows Twilight Zone.

]]> By: Janet https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123036 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:31:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/29/lets-hear-it-for-the-science-fiction-theater-theme/#comment-123036 As soon as I read “Truman Bradley” I could hear that music in my head!

So why can’t I remember what I wanted to do when I just climbed the stairs to the second floor of my house?

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