Science Fiction Theatre episode review — 1.3 — Out of Nowhere

Original air date: April 23, 1955
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Writer: Donn Mullally

Rating: 5/10

Is it bad that I’m kind of enjoying the Truman Bradley little intro segments more than the actual stories? I like when he pops up just to give us a highly abbreviated science lesson. It adds some character, somehow.

At any rate, this story involves bats crashing into a skyscraper, which alerts some scientists, since bats shouldn’t crash into anything with their little anatomical radar things.

They investigate, and find that there might be some kind of signal or wavelength coming from somewhere else.

After discovering that it’s not from the American military, people speculate that it could be Soviet, or perhaps from outer space. And honestly, the story doesn’t go anywhere satisfying with that. It’s only a half-hour show, and I feel like this story just needed more to it.

I’m not feeling great about this show so far, as much as I did like the first episode. A few episodes coming up are directed by Jack Arnold, the man behind such sci-fi classics as It Came from Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. Actually, he directed the second episode, the only one I’ve really liked so far.