Bill Russo's video: Science Fiction Theater: Out of Nowhere S1 E 03

A cauldron (group) of bats crash into the top floor of a skyscraper – but that’s impossible! Bats have the best radar on earth! A few of the creatures survive, and investigators carefully gather the dead and the injured. “I want to see those bats in my laboratory, immediately,” says the top scientist in the nation. Meanwhile, fearing a foreign country is trying to disrupt our radar systems, the government investigates. They learn that a strong microwave beam is being directed towards the building from directly above. This is a season one, color episode from April 29, 1955. The episode was shown just four days before the first microwave oven was offered for sale. It was a large 220-volt wall unit from Tappan (now part of Electrolux). It sold for $1,295 (more than $11,000 in the money of the 2020s). If you enjoy the show, please hit the like button and subscribe in order to get access to all our videos. This is one of the season one color episodes. The producers were an early adopter of ‘color’ TV. All of the season one episodes were produced in color, which was an expensive extra in the early days of TV. In season two, they apparently decided the extra expense was not warranted, so all of the second season episodes are in black and white. Before the Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, and the Outer Limits, there was Science Fiction Theater, which ran from 1955 to 1957. Hosted by Truman Bradley, a radio/TV announcer and 1940s film actor, each episode of Science Fiction Theater introduced stories based on scientific or pseudo scientific Principles. The tales usually 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. Broadcasting a total of 78 25–26 minute episodes, I t was also known as Beyond The Limits for repeat syndication during the 1960s, and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater.