If you didn’t grow up when Saturday TV was flooded with grainy black and white science fiction from the 1950s you may not know just how rich a decade it was. There were amazing stories about our future in space, like Destination Moon!  tales of warning about the danger of giant mutant bugs in Them! (or leeches, as it turns out), tales of the end of the world (When World’s Collide) and time travel stories (World Without End) and the retelling of classic tales in new media, with robots (Forbidden Planet, 1956).

For us kids, the stories were pure excitement, for adults, there were messages about society, science, and always about the enduring shape of human nature, no matter how far into the future a story might take us.

The next decade would explode with color and new stories as man actually raced into space, but the 1950s was all about dreams and Things to Come (although the movie by that name was made in 1936).

What were (and are) your favorite Science Fiction Movies?

Heres’ a link to help you out with reliving your past and sharing it with a new generation: IMDB Advanced Search: https://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&release_date=1950-01-01,1959-12-31&genres=sci-fi

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