5.8 /10 1 Votes
4.7/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 22 January 1954 Number of seasons 1 | 6.7/10 IMDb Opening theme "Tumult and Commotion" Original language(s) English First episode date 6 July 1953 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Atom Squad was an American science-fiction tv series that was broadcast live 5 times a week by the NBC network (out of their Philadelphia studios), Monday July 6, 1953 to January 22, 1954, running Monday through Friday, 5:00 to 5:15 PM EST. Each episode was only 15 minutes long. There were a total of 142 black and white episodes in all.
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Synopsis
The Atom Squad is a secret government agency which dealt with Cold War threats to US security involving radiation and nuclear weapons. The Atom Squad scientists, Steve Elliot and Dave Fielding, were played by Robert Courtleigh and Bob Hastings, their chief by Bram Nossem.
The Atom Squad's secret New York City headquarters lab looked very much like Captain Video's secret mountain headquarters control room. The program's opening sequence showed a man in a "radiation suit" lumbering very slowly toward the camera.
Episode status
While Atom Squad kinescopes were probably made for West Coast rebroadcast, none are known to survive today. The series did not appear to have a sponsor and no tie-in toys or premiums are known to exist.