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An interesting, kind of off-beat story where a young scientist and his charming wife are trying to settle down for a good necking session on the beach when the fog rolls in and transports them to one of the moons of Jupiter. On that moon, they run into a long-missing scientist who wants to give them some information that could benefit everyone on Earth. Soon, though, they find themselves back on the beach, no worse for wear. Was it all just a dream? Take a look at this episode and see!

More giggles as a married couple, fooling around on the beach are suddenly transported to a laboratory on a distant moon of Jupiter. They find out that the guy who is forced to live under the auspices of some aliens, has created some great stuff that would help out the world. He has a nutrient that can make giant sweet potatoes (which, of course, is why the space program came about). This proves confusing to the people and they wonder what they can do. Of course, when they get back, their biggest problem is people in the scientific community who think they are nuts. These people have no respect for sweet potatoes. Anyway, try this one out. It's different than anything you've seen before.

The strength of Science Fiction Theatre's approach -creating sci-fi stories from actual data-driven starting points -is on display in "Jupitron". Instead of the exploitation movie approach of tabloids and sci-fi movies regarding the genre of Alien Abduction paranoia, this show presents a more reasonable fantasy.

Bill Wiliiams and his wife are having a romantic evening on the beach when a mysterious misty fog sets in and they are rendered unconscious, their bodies feeling paralyzed. They wake up in a strange room filled with equipment that seems to be a space ship, are ordered around by a strange voice, and meet a scientist who disappeared 10 years ago from the institute where scientist Williams works and was believed to be dead.

This sets up the point of the episode, that the scientist has been living with the Outer Space aliens, stationed on one of Jupiter's moons, and showed him the power of an element named Jupitron not found on Earth, which can theoretically solve the issue of food shortages on our planet.

Williams is quite believable in the role of a scientist faced with an unbelievable situation: he tells his story to his boss at the institute and is not surprisingly disbelieved -could it be he and his wife simply shared the same dream/nightmare, as they woke up on the beach, with only the evidence of a vastly increased amount of argon in Bill's bloodstream to attest to the tale of having been taken by aliens briefly to a moon of Jupiter.

Low on special effects and scares, this is thought-provoking speculative fiction.