EDITOR’S NOTE: Kronos was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, September 29, 1963 at 11:10 p.m. It also aired on April 18 and August 16, 1964; December 30, 1972; September 28, 1974 and November 1, 1975.

A glowing bit of energy is launched from a UAP from deep space. The energy lands on our planet and takes over the brain of a man somewhere in the Southwest and sends him to a research facility where scientists have been tracking the object.

It soon takes over Dr. Hubbell Eliot as astrophysicist Dr. Leslie Gaskell and Dr. Arnold Culver track the UAP. They fire three nuclear missiles at it, because that’s what humans do, and it survives the attack. They leave for Mexico, along with Gaskell’s girlfriend Vera Hunter to see Kronos, an energy accumulator that is going to take everything we have and bring it back to its planet. That’s why when the U.S. military drops an atomic bomb on it, Kronos gets even bigger.

Dr. Eliot breaks out of alien control and kills himself to keep them from learning more from him. At the last minute, Gaskell reverses the polarity and drops nuclear ions on the robot and saves the day.

Director Kurt Neumann also was the man who made She Devil, the movie that this played double features with. Kronos was written by Lawrence L. Goldman and Irving Block. Block was an effects man who also wrote the story for Forbidden Planet.

It’s also the first movie for Richard Harrison. The same man who Godfrey Ho would use in movie after movie, often the same footage, until it seems like he was in twenty or more ninja films.