ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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YouTube has a number of episodes from this great show, and the picture quality suggests that they're from the restored DVDs sold by Shout Factory.

Science Fiction Theatre - End of Tomorrow S2 E13


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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From IMDB: A German scientist appears in Washington 20 years after supposedly being lost in a South American jungle. He's brought with him an antibiotic so powerful that it prevents and cures every known disease in world. Just before mass inoculations are to begin, two government researchers discover it's dangerous side effect.
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The versatile Dabbs Greer does a great job of playing a scientist who comes up with a super-vaccine. He plays the doctor as brilliant . . . but a little bit crazy, in a happy sort of way.

The premise of this story is terrific.

The super-vaccine that cures all disease has a terrible side effect — it causes all the test animals to give birth to nothing but female offspring!

When two of the doctors (Christopher Dark and Diana Douglas) inform Dabbs Greer of this, he smiles and says they must be mistaken.

It would seem that Greer is deliberately trying to wipe out the human race by inoculating mankind with a vaccine which prevents the birth of male babies.

But in true Science Fiction Theater fashion, the story hits us with a surprise in the final act.

The coolest thing about this episode is the way the climax of the story is frustratingly vague . . . until Truman Bradley's closing remarks explain it!

This story is pure science fiction, and I LOVE this series!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)