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The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985 - 1992 6.9 (36 votes) 6 Seasons
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
Networks
USA Network
HBO
Created By
Ray Bradbury

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Overview

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

Top Cast

Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury

Self - Introduction

Seasons

Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1988)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
1988-01-23

A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 2: Skeleton
1988-02-06

A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 3: The Emissary
1988-02-13

A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 4: Gotcha!
1988-02-20

A man discovers that his new girlfriend is obsessed with a game called Gotcha!... and will go to any lengths to win.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 5: The Man Upstairs
1988-03-05

An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 6: The Small Assassin
1988-04-09

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 7: Punishment Without Crime
1988-04-16

A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 8: On the Orient, North
1988-04-30

A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 9: The Coffin
1988-05-07

An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 10: Tyrannosaurus Rex
1988-05-14

A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 11: There Was an Old Woman
1988-05-21

Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 12: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988-05-28

A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

Runtime: 24 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1989)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Dwarf
1989-07-07

A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 2: A Miracle of Rare Device
1989-07-14

Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 3: The Lake
1989-07-21

An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 4: The Wind
1989-07-28

After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 5: The Pedestrian
1989-08-04

A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 6: A Sound of Thunder
1989-08-11

Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 7: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
1989-08-18

When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 8: The Haunting of the New
1989-09-15

A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 9: To the Chicago Abyss
1989-09-22

In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 10: Hail and Farewell
1989-09-29

Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 11: The Veldt
1989-11-10

Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 12: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
1989-11-17

A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

Runtime: 24 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1990)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mars Is Heaven
1990-07-20

As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: The Murderer
1990-07-27

Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Touched with Fire
1990-08-03

Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: The Black Ferris
1990-08-10

Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: Usher II
1990-08-17

When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe... and plots revenge.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: Touch of Petulance
1990-10-12

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: And the Moon Be Still as Bright
1990-10-19

Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Toynbee Convector
1990-10-26

A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Exorcism
1990-11-02

The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: The Day It Rained Forever
1990-11-09

In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: The Long Years
1990-11-16

A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: Here There Be Tygers
1990-11-30

Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 6 poster
Season 6 (1992)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Earthmen
1992-01-03

A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Zero Hour
1992-01-10

In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: The Jar
1992-01-17

A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
1992-01-24

A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: The Concrete Mixer
1992-01-31

A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: The Utterly Perfect Murder
1992-02-07

As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: Let's Play Poison
1992-02-14

After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Martian
1992-02-21

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: The Lonely One
1992-07-10

After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: The Happiness Machine
1992-07-17

A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 11: Tomorrow's Child
1992-08-14

An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 12: The Anthem Sprinters
1992-08-21

An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 13: By the Numbers
1992-09-11

The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 14: The Long Rain
1992-09-19

When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 15: The Dead Man
1992-09-26

A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 16: Sun and Shadow
1992-10-03

An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 17: Silent Towns
1992-10-10

A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 18: Downwind from Gettysburg
1992-10-17

Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 19: Some Live Like Lazarus
1992-10-24

A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 20: The Handler
1992-10-27

A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 21: Fee Fie Foe Fum
1992-10-28

A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 22: Great Wide World Over There
1992-10-29

Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 23: The Tombstone
1992-10-30

A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.

Runtime: 23 min

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