EDITOR’S NOTE: The Atomic Man was first on Chiller Theater on Sunday, October 13, 1963. It was aired on March 7, 1964; July 10, 1965 and December 3, 1966.

Cut down by seventeen minutes and renamed from Timeslip, The Atomic Man played U.S. theaters on a double feature with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It had already been a live TV play in England and would also be the first of three novels with The Isotope Man coming out in 1957.

Directed by Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sextette, Night School) and written by Charles Eric Maine, this movie has an interesting idea in it: a man is found shot in the back and nearly drowned. When he revives, he is a few seconds in the future from the rest of reality and able to answer questions before they are asked.

Faith Domergue is in this. She was discovered by Howard Hughes, who she dated from the age of 16 until she learned that he was also dating Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner. She became an early scream queen, appearing in Cult of the Cobra, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea and Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. She began traveling to Italy in 1952 and staying in Rome for extended periods. She married director Paolo Cossa and was in several Italian movies including One on Top of the Other and The Man With the Icy Eyes. Her last movie was The House of Seven Corpses.