The Man and the Challenge is an American adventure fiction television series about a scientist who tests problems of human survival.

Dr. Glenn Barton is an athlete, explorer, adventurer, and former United States Marine who has become a physician and a research scientist for the Institute of Human Factors, a U.S. government agency that designs and conducts experiments to study human endurance and its limits.

[1][2] His wide-ranging curiosity and interests suit him well for his assignments, which involve him testing equipment and personnel under conditions of extreme stress in a variety of research areas.

[1][2] It aired on NBC on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time[1][2] against ABC's Leave it to Beaver and CBS's Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Prime-time reruns of The Man and the Challenge then aired in its regular time slot until September 3, 1960.