EDITOR’S NOTE: The Magnetic Monster was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, March 29 at 11:10 p.m. and Saturday, July 18, 1964 at 4:00 p.m., Saturday, February 13, 1965 at 11:15 p.m. and Saturday, June 29, 1968 at 11:30 p.m.

This is the start of Ivan Tors’ Office of Scientific Investigation trilogy, which was followed by Riders to the Stars and Gog. OSI agents Dr. Jeffrey Stewart (Richard Carlson) and Dr. Dan Forbes (King Donovan) are sent to an appliance store to learn why everything is magnetized and the clocks have all stopped working. Could it be the lab above and the dead body? Yes, and Dr. Howard Denker (Leonard Mudie), who has been irradiating an artificial radioactive isotope by the name of serranium, is the real reason behind all of this.

Only the Canadian invention, the Deltatron, can help us. The lead scientist won’t let Stewart use it, so he does what Americans do best. He uses a show of force and makes them comply! We’re saving the world, Mr. Scientist, and don’t have time for your objections!

Directed by Curt Siodmak and an uncredited Herbert L. Strock, who was hired by Tors because he was an editor familiar with using stock footage, the film includes plenty of it, including nearly ten minutes of an underground magneto-dynamo from the German movie Gold.

You can watch this on Tubi.