SciFi A-Z #First shown in 1956

A TV serial for children set on a space station orbiting the earth and following the lives of the Winter children between school lessons. Broadcast on BBC Television Service in 1955.

ITV's first piece of television science fiction was based on a novel by David Karp and starred Donald Pleasence. A man who believes himself to be an active supporter of the "benevolent State" is found guilty of "heresy" and receives the State's routine treatment for his allegedly deviant behaviour. Broadcast in London and the Midlands.

A play about the residents of a small island who are joined by survivors of a nuclear war was broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1956.

ATV production in which scientists inadvertently gain access to the fourth dimension and are transported to the abstractly arid Planet X. Broadcast on ITV in the London, the Midlands and the North of England.

ABC production in which unexplained and gruesome deaths among climbers of the fictional Mount Trollenberg in Switzerland are investigated. Broadcast on ITV in the London, the Midlands and the North of England.