Aug 22, 1952 (74 years ago)

Two youngsters discover a talking bird in a zoo and come to the realization that the bird is part of a plot by the animal kingdom to reclaim the world from humans.

Aug 29, 1952 (74 years ago)

A scientific invention brings glory to a struggling violinist but it also causes him to commit murder.

Sep 5, 1952 (74 years ago)

When a prominent physician dons a pair of eyeglasses he discovers that he can see into the future.

Sep 12, 1952 (74 years ago)

A group of scientists are trapped inside a house in a remote jungle by hideous invisible creatures.

Sep 19, 1952 (74 years ago)

A man arrives at a sea lodge and confesses to a murder but it's later revealed that he's from the future.

Sep 26, 1952 (74 years ago)

A 26 year old man gives a doctor a blood transfusion in return for $1,000 but the process causes the young man to age.

Oct 3, 1952 (74 years ago)

A young woman goes to her hometown at the behest of a food conglomerate. Her assignment is to discover what the people of the community are using for food after their only food outlet closes. She discovers a scientist who has developed a food substitute called 'Substance X'. Anyone who diets on Substance X is unable to eat normal food from that time on.

Oct 10, 1952 (74 years ago)

A scientist invents a machine that has the power to control human emotions.

Oct 17, 1952 (74 years ago)

A writer pens a story about a death ray machine only to discover later that the government actually has such a device.

Oct 24, 1952 (74 years ago)

A father discovers that his son and other neighborhood children are being controlled telepathically by an alien.

Oct 31, 1952 (73 years ago)

An archeologist discovers that an ancient king has been able to stay alive for centuries in a tomb deep beneath the Egyptian desert.

Nov 7, 1952 (73 years ago)

A live television program is interrupted by a mysterious signal that shows a murder about to take place.

Nov 14, 1952 (73 years ago)

A blackmailer discovers a camera that will take pictures 25 years into the future.

Nov 21, 1952 (73 years ago)

A deadly disease covers the earth and its only hope is a little girl.

Nov 28, 1952 (73 years ago)

A young scientist produces a new kind of air which proves to be "invigorating."

Dec 5, 1952 (73 years ago)

A reporter and his damsel sidekick search for a giant reportedly encased in the ice of the Himalayas.

Dec 12, 1952 (73 years ago)

Doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two biochemists develop a mysterious plant.

Dec 19, 1952 (73 years ago)

A machine that can foretell the future says that one of a doctor's infant patients will grow up to be a murderer.

Dec 26, 1952 (73 years ago)

A man brings back voices and sounds from the Garden of Eden.

Jan 2, 1953 (73 years ago)

Perry Mason won't be able to help a killer who takes refuge in a museum where the statues come to life.

Jan 9, 1953 (73 years ago)

Jan 16, 1953 (73 years ago)

An alien who's an advance scout for an invasion force arrives at a lighthouse hoping to use its beacon as a signal. A precocious little girl win's the alien's heart and moves the extraterrestrial to surrender his life to prevent invasion.

Jan 23, 1953 (73 years ago)

Handsome Dorian Gray never seems to age but the same cannot be said about his portrait.

Jan 30, 1953 (73 years ago)

To win the love of a woman, a man arranges to have the head of her former lover transplanted onto his body.

Feb 6, 1953 (73 years ago)

A little boy is the recipient of a strange box from the owner of a gift shop.

Feb 13, 1953 (73 years ago)

A man is given the chance to live the past seven years of his life over but he makes the same mistakes.

Feb 20, 1953 (73 years ago)

The nation is hit with an epidemic in which vocal chords are paralyzed but it's actually an alien plot to control the people of the United States.

Feb 27, 1953 (73 years ago)

Mar 6, 1953 (73 years ago)

Members of an expedition into the jungle are attacked by invisible blood sucking leaches from outer space.

Mar 13, 1953 (73 years ago)

A magician hates a reporter so he hypnotizes all the people with whom the newsie comes into contact into forgetting him.

Mar 20, 1953 (73 years ago)

An old professor with failing eyesight builds a robot named Herr Doktor to read him books that he had never had a chance to read when he was younger. The relationship between the professor and the robot is very close. The books that the robot reads give it the desire to be a complete person. Their roles become reversed. The robot begins to demand that the professor read aloud to him. Later, the robot falls in love with the professor's daughter. When she spurns the robot, it learns that the books it has been reading were wrong and it dies of a broken heart.

Mar 27, 1953 (73 years ago)

A writer discovers to his horror that the events in his short stories are coming true.

Apr 3, 1953 (73 years ago)

A doctor travels back in time in order to extol the virtues of penicillin and save lives but ends up being committed to an insane asylum where he falls ill and dies from a disease which could have been prevented by penicillin.

Apr 10, 1953 (73 years ago)

A pilot returns home after being stranded in the Arctic for five years and discovers that he can only live in cold temperatures.

Apr 17, 1953 (73 years ago)

A new wife finds herself a rival for her husband's affections--his cat.

Apr 24, 1953 (73 years ago)

A mortician discovers a serum that induces a death-like sleep.

May 1, 1953 (73 years ago)

A scientist creates a formula that unlocks evil. Then his wife unknowingly ingests some of the formula.

May 8, 1953 (73 years ago)

While making scientific tests, four people get trapped inside a vault.

May 15, 1953 (73 years ago)

A chemist comes into possession of an ink which has the power to hypnotize all who look at anything written with the substance.

May 22, 1953 (73 years ago)

Inhabitants of an island find themselves affected by atomic radiation.

May 29, 1953 (73 years ago)

A man gets revived after being declared clinically dead for a short period of time. Then he discovers that he has the ability to detect lies.

Jun 12, 1953 (73 years ago)

A woman receives telepathic waves that she is about to be murdered.