2000 Plus — 1950
29 episodes broadcast in 1950.
March 15, 1950
Hosts Above the Thunder
March 22, 1950
Journey Into the Germ World
A voyage shrinks down into the microscopic world to fight off a plague called morbus cantonia.
Told they are too young for a trip to Mars, two boys decide the sensible thing is to build a rocket of their own.
April 5, 1950
The Diamond Skull
The wandering planet Nocturne bears down on Earth, and a desperate chemistry -- a tritonium solution -- is the only answer. (Also known as "The Diamond Helmet.")
April 12, 1950
The Man Who Conquered Time
A man hurls his own consciousness ahead to the year 10,000 A.D. to see what became of the world.
April 19, 1950
Rocket to the Moon
In a city run entirely by computers, a band of rebels sets itself against the all-powerful Master Controller.
Martians arrive on Earth carrying a warning for its quarrelsome, still-primitive inhabitants -- if anyone will listen.
May 10, 1950
Silent Noise
A murder committed by electric impulse in the year 2005 is unraveled, with an unlikely assist from a goldfish.
May 17, 1950
The Insect
A scientist's wife finds herself shut in the laboratory with one of his all-too-successful growth-ray experiments.
May 24, 1950
The Man Who Tried to Stop June 8
Scientists reach into time itself in a bid to head off a murder before it can happen.
May 31, 1950
The First Men
The first travelers from Earth to reach Mars find genuine canals -- and a people who keep insects as pets.
June 7, 1950
The Other Man
Scott Douglas comes home to learn the World Security Police want him for murder -- and that a second Scott Douglas is wanted for the same killing.
June 14, 1950
The Earth Versus Alexander Corday
A scientist schemes to empty the Earth of its people, clearing the ground for a Martian invasion.
The series' one broad comedy: a slow-witted young man volunteers as a laboratory subject, sure it will finally win him the girl of his dreams.
The year is 2370, and the interplanetary liner Golden Star, holed by a meteor, drifts helpless with 750 souls aboard.
A soldier returns shaken from the Martian War to find his own boy itching to enlist.
July 19, 1950
Explorers From Space
A delegation newly arrived from Mars carries off a radio announcer to study the specimen at leisure.
July 23, 1950
The Flower of Evil
Carnivorous plants set out to overrun a twenty-first-century civilization.
July 26, 1950
The Living Dead
A scientist crosses over and joins the ranks of the dead.
August 2, 1950
The Doom Machine
A scientist builds a robot designed to succeed everywhere human beings fail.
August 23, 1950
The Flying Saucers
An alien craft hangs over an Air Force base; the general on the ground answers with force, and the consequences spiral.
August 30, 1950
The Robot Killer
A suburban couple wins a robot servant for the house -- and the wife's unraveling mind turns the prize deadly.
September 6, 1950
Rocket and the Skull
Every patient in one sanitarium is haunted by the same nightmare of a menacing green thing -- the same dream, down to the last detail.
October 4, 1950
That Which Lives in a Steel Head
A scientist meddles with the deepest secrets of human life. (Also listed as "That Which Lived in a Head of Steel.")
A megalomaniac's serum turns ordinary men into titans -- the raw material, he intends, for a super-race and the conquest of the world.
The story of a man who wakes to find himself the last one left in the world. (Preserved as an AFRS transcription.)
A crew returning from Neptune is met not with a welcome but with arrest and imprisonment -- and a twist no one aboard sees coming.
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