Marked 'Danger

Episode aired Jun 18, 1955
30m

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Arthur Franz in Science Fiction Theatre (1955)

Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

A man prospecting in the desert finds a sealed experimental container containing two white mice, and brings them home to his wife before calling the authorities. But when the authorities arr... Read allA man prospecting in the desert finds a sealed experimental container containing two white mice, and brings them home to his wife before calling the authorities. But when the authorities arrive, the two mice are gone, with only a green residue in the container.A man prospecting in the desert finds a sealed experimental container containing two white mice, and brings them home to his wife before calling the authorities. But when the authorities arrive, the two mice are gone, with only a green residue in the container.

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The black & white movie footage of two white mice in zero gravity that Dr. Engstrom watches is from the 1953 film "Animals in Rocket Flight" by the United States Air Force; a short film which documents the May 21, 1952 launch and recovery of the Aerobee-26 from the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. This was the third Aerobee test using live animals, and the first in which the test animals (two mice and two Capuchin monkeys) were all recovered safely. The Aerobee-26 reached an altitude of 37 miles (significantly less than the 250 miles attained by the rocket in this story.)

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Mrs. Strand has been in a coma in a hospital for a day or more, but when she is revived, her facial makeup and hairdo are perfect.

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You Know How Women Are!

Once again we have the fifties woman portrayed as the empty headed, out of control, I Love Lucy, prototype. An engineer finds a balloon in the desert. It contains a canister with two white mice in it. There is a note to report the finding to a research facility. Of course, the guy leaves the thing with his wife, telling her not to touch it. You guessed it. She can't wait five minutes to mess things up, releasing a gas into the trailer where they are stationed. She actually uses the phrase, "If you want a woman to do something, don't tell her not to." Later in the episode, one of the other guys understands why she did it. He says, "I understand. I'm married too." Back to the plot. It turns out that the two mice have ingested some bacterial thing that eventually turned them into a smudge of plant life in the bottom of the container. Ah, but guess who else is turning into a plant. Our heroine. She is continually running into the sun to assist photosynthesis.