ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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YouTube has most of the episodes of this great show. The picture ranges from fair-to-good. Some of the videos were edited by the old Sci-Fi Channel, shortening them by three minutes.

Science Fiction Theatre - Gravity Zero S2 E35


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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: An absent-minded physics professor and his loyal lab technician work on an anti-gravity device. Despite technical failures, they persist, hoping that the work will contribute to rocket launches, and someday to flying saucers.
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Well, obviously that plot summary suggests that this episode is one of the deliberate attempts to present a humorous story. Unfortunately, most of these haven't been the most noteworthy episodes.

In fact . . . a few of them have sucked.

However, in defense of this episode, it features the lovely Lisa Gaye (sister of the equally lovely Debra Paget) as a lab assistant to the kookie professor played by Percy Helton.

But when I watched the episode again today, I discovered that it was much more serious than I'd thought! Whimsical though it may have seemed at first, the story does address the idea that gravity could be negated to point that (for example) a wooden disc could be made entirely weightless.

It was a gratifying story about a struggling scientist who proved that his work was valid and his theories were correct.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)