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The Ray Bradbury Theater(TV show/series, 1985-1992)

Scripted Reality in 6 seasons with 65 episodes

The Ray Bradbury TheaterRating: 3.5/5 (with 16 votes)
The Ray Bradbury Theatre is an anthology series that ran for three seasons on First Choice Superchannel in Canada and HBO in the United States from 1985 to 1986, and then on USA Network, running for four additional seasons from 1988 to 1992; episodes aired on the Global Television Network in Canada from 1991 to 1994. It was shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel and later on the Retro Television Network. It currently airs on Comet and can be streamed on IMDb TV, Peacock, Pluto TV and The Roku Channel. All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury, based on short stories or novels he wrote, including "A Sound of Thunder", "Marionettes, Inc.", "Banshee", "The Playground", "Mars is Heaven", "Usher II", "The Jar", "The Long Rain", "The Veldt", "The Small Assassin", "The Pedestrian", "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl", "Here There Be Tygers", "The Toynbee Convector", and "Sun and Shadow". Many of the episodes focused on only one of Bradbury's original works. However, Bradbury occasionally included elements from his other works. "Marionettes, Inc." featured Fantoccini, a character from "I Sing the Body Elec... ()
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About The Ray Bradbury Theater

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.

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The Ray Bradbury Theater Seasons and Episodes

01/03/1992Season 6 - 23 episodes
#1 | 01/03/1992The Earthmen
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
#2 | 01/10/1992Zero Hour
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
#3 | 01/17/1992The Jar
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
#4 | 01/24/1992Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
#5 | 01/31/1992The Concrete Mixer
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
#6 | 02/07/1992The Utterly Perfect Murder
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.
#7 | 02/14/1992Let's Play Poison
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.
#8 | 02/21/1992The Martian
A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
#9 | 07/10/1992The Lonely One
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.
#10 | 07/17/1992The Happiness Machine
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.
#11 | 08/14/1992Tomorrow's Child
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.
#12 | 08/21/1992The Anthem Sprinters
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.
#13 | 09/11/1992By the Numbers
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
#14 | 09/19/1992The Long Rain
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.
#15 | 09/26/1992The Dead Man
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.
#16 | 10/03/1992Sun and Shadow
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.
#16 | 09/11/1992By the Numbers
On a train, a man learns the truth about about a boy and his drill sergeant father that he met years ago at a hotel pool.
#17 | 10/10/1992Silent Towns
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.
#17 | 09/19/1992The Long Rain
When a spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet.
#18 | 10/17/1992Downwind from Gettysburg
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.
#18 | 09/26/1992The Dead Man
A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead.
#19 | 10/24/1992Some Live Like Lazarus
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.
#19 | 10/03/1992Sun and Shadow
A local man protests when a rude director attempts to use his house for the backdrop of a liquor commercial.
#20 | 10/27/1992The Handler
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
#20 | 10/10/1992Silent Towns
The last man on Mars after an evacuation seeks the last woman on Mars.
#21 | 10/28/1992Fee Fie Foe Fum
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.
#21 | 10/17/1992Downwind from Gettysburg
#22 | 10/29/1992Great Wide World Over There
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.
#22 | 10/24/1992Some Live Like Lazarus
A boy and girl fall in love as children, and vow to marry when they're 21. However, the boy's dominating mother has other plans.
#23 | 10/30/1992The Tombstone
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.
#23 | 10/30/1992The Tombstone
A salesman and his wife are forced to take a room where the previous occupant left a tombstone.
07/20/1990Season 5 - 12 episodes
07/07/1989Season 4 - 12 episodes
01/23/1988Season 3 - 12 episodes
02/22/1986Season 2 - 3 episodes
05/21/1985Season 1 - 3 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Polish (PL), Russian (RU)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 05/21/1985
Last episode released on: 10/30/1992
Creator: Ray Bradbury
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Mystery Theatre"
"The Bradbury Trilogy"
"The Ray Bradbury Theatre"

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