SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE

TRUMAN BRADLEY - "NARRATOR"

"Science Fiction Theatre" was a science fiction anthology series in 1955-1957. The series narrator was Truman Bradley who introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.

Truman Bradley was born on 8 February 1905 and passed away on 28 July 1974. He was an actor and narrator in radio, television and film. Bradley began his career in the 1930's as a radio broadcaster. He worked at WBBM in Chicago, Illinois, with some considered him "the Mid-West's leading news commentator." He was selected by Henry Ford to be the announcer for the "Ford Sunday Evening Hour", for which he flew to Detroit, Michigan, each weekend. With his distinctive, authoritative voice, he soon became a radio actor as well as a narrator in numerous movies. In the mid-1940's, Bradley was a newscaster with KERN in Bakersfield, California. Bradley was the announcer for Red Skelton's program, Burns and Allen Easy Aces, the Frank Sinatra Show and Screen Guild Players. Bradley was the host of the 1950's syndicated television series "Science Fiction Theatre". He occasionally worked as an actor in films live theatre. He made his final acting appearance in a 1960 episode of the American legal drama "Perry Mason" - "The Case of the Madcap Modiste" playing a grey-haired television interviewer and the episode's narrator. The following is the opening clip for the show: Science Fiction Theater opening from The Professor on Vimeo.

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