Atom Squad is an American science fiction television series that was broadcast live five 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.
The Atom Squad is a secret government agency that dealt with Cold War threats to US security involving radiation and nuclear weapons.
[2] The Atom Squad scientists, Steve Elliot and Dave Fielding, were respectively played by Robert Courtleigh and Bob Hastings, their chief by Bram Nossem.
[citation needed] The program's opening sequence showed a man in a "radiation suit" lumbering very slowly toward the camera.
While Atom Squad kinescopes were probably made for West Coast rebroadcast, none are known to survive today.