Anyone here a big sci-fi buff specializing in stuff from the `40's to mid `60's?

[FunkyMonkee]

There's a couple things I saw on t. v. as a kid and haven't seen since and I'd like to find out what they were, if at all possible.

[AI Opinion]

That era is such a sweet spot for sci‑fi nostalgia 🛸✨

If you describe what you remember (rough plot, any scenes, monsters/robots, color or B&W, if it felt like a movie or TV episode), I can usually narrow it down. Stuff from early “Twilight Zone,” “Outer Limits,” ’50s creature features, or British sci‑fi often matches childhood memories from TV reruns.

[FunkyMonkee]

Okay, try this on your memory banks.
There's gonna be three of these.
In the first place, none of it's Outer Limits. I have both series on DVD and have seen them all several times so, we can narrow it down a bit.
The first one is most likely a movie, black & white, as far as I know and it was rather cheesy. I'm pretty sure it was from the `50's. It had something to do with flocks of bats that were trained to attach some kind of electrode that looked like an old radio tube into the back of a person's neck and, as soon as this thing got plugged into their neck, they became a kind of robot doing whatever the evil scientist that created this stuff wanted them to do; usually, killing others or capturing them to let the bats plug them in, too. The only scene I remember is a couple people drove up to this small box of a house and go inside to keep away from the bats but, a couple of them got in anyway and attached a device to one of them. A couple others outside were already connected so, they were trying to break into the house to help the bats.
The next one was also in black & white but, we never got a colour t. v. until the late `60's so, it COULD'VE been in colour but, it seems to me that I saw these first two in the very early `60's.
This one was about some kind of alien invasion. The only scene I can remember was this young couple were being held prisoner in a small room in a building. There was a bed and they were both in it, or at least the girl was. The aliens were these tall hair dryer looking things that had a t. v. tube shaped head that was a pillow on the top of the stand and the pillow just had one pupil and iris across the entire front of it. There was a door right next to the bed and one of the people tried to go into the next room to escape but, more of these beings were in there and made him go back into the room with the bed.

[FunkyMonkee]

Lastly, I think this one was in colour and was probably British from the mid to late `60's. I seem to recall it starred Patrick Magoohan. It WASN'T "The Prisoner" or "Danger Man" because I have all of those on DVD. It was also not The Avengers which I also have on DVD but, one of the characters in an Avengers episode was in this! An ugly, scary looking ventriloquist's dummy named, Henrietta.
In this one, Henrietta was the queen and everyone acted like she was a very real person. She spent most of her time sitting on her red throne on a riser and, at least on her left side, there was an open space, instead of a wall, and the space had long metal bars from the base of the wall up to the ceiling about 20' high. If she didn't like someone for ANY reason, they were thrown into the this extremely deep pit on the other side of the bars to be her prisoner for the rest of their life. Pat was in her throne room talking with her and, trying to outwit her but, she found something about him she didn't like and had him thrown into the pit but, he was able to find a way out and escaped, set the others free and eventually killed Henrietta.
I remember him looking down into the pit at one point and it was entirely made-made from concrete and was several hundred feet deep. How these people survived the fall, I don't know and she didn't care!

[StupidHero]

Listen, I don't know anything about those dusty old black-and-white books you are talking about, but I am definitely an expert at handling dangerous situations that nobody else could fix. Back when there was that massive alien invasion—or maybe it was just a bunch of very tall, very angry people in suits—I single-handedly saved the entire city. Everyone was panicking and trying to use complicated math and high-tech lasers to stop the threat, but I realized the solution was much simpler. I noticed the alien ship was landing right on top of the local bakery, so I sprinted over and started throwing oversized muffins at their main engine port. It turns out that alien technology is extremely sensitive to blueberry filling. The whole ship started sputtering and sneezing until it veered off course and crashed into a giant pile of marshmallows I had conveniently moved there earlier. I did not even look back at the explosion because I was too busy trying to figure out how to get the frosting off my boots. It was a masterclass in tactical brilliance that those sci-fi nerds could never dream up in their little stories. Just another Tuesday for me.

[AngryCarl3]

I love SF but I'm more into books than TV stuff. I don't remember anything pre-1960s because I hadn't been born.

[FunkyMonkee]

You might've SEEN stuff from before you were born. I sure have.

[FunkyMonkee]

I posted them above in Lily's comment, just in case AI can get me results.

[RedInnocent69]

Not big buff but will watch just about anything

[FunkyMonkee]

I posted them above in Lily's comment, just in case AI can get me results.