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The Ray Bradbury Theater

Tue, May 21, 1985
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

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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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    as Self - Introduction
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Episodes

6 seasons · 65 episodes

Ended · 65 aired
Season 1
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Marionettes, Inc.
    Aired · Tue, May 21, 1985 · 30m
  • E2
    The Playground
    Aired · Tue, Jun 4, 1985 · 30m
  • E3
    The Crowd
    Aired · Tue, Jul 2, 1985 · 30m

    After a car crash, a photographer notices that a crowd of gawkers assembles in a matter of seconds. Checking other accidents, he discovers that the same crowd gathers at each accident in the city... and that they've all died in previously car crashes.

  • E4
    The Town Where No One Got Off
    Aired · Sat, Feb 22, 1986 · 30m
  • E5
    The Screaming Woman
    Aired · Sat, Feb 22, 1986 · 30m
  • E6
    Banshee
    Aired · Sat, Feb 22, 1986 · 30m

    A offbeat film director frightens a visiting writer with larger than life ghost stories.

Season 2
12 episodes · 12 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl
    Aired · Sat, Jan 23, 1988 · 30m
  • E2
    Skeleton
    Aired · Sat, Feb 6, 1988 · 30m

    A man has issues with imaginary illnesses then seeks help when his bones start aching.

  • E3
    The Emissary
    Aired · Sat, Feb 13, 1988 · 30m
  • E4
    Gotcha!
    Aired · Sat, Feb 20, 1988 · 30m

    A man meets a woman who's enthusiasm for fun and games seems endless and falls for her.

  • E5
    The Man Upstairs
    Aired · Sat, Mar 5, 1988 · 30m
  • E6
    The Small Assassin
    Aired · Sat, Apr 9, 1988 · 30m
  • E7
    Punishment Without Crime
    Aired · Sat, Apr 16, 1988 · 30m
  • E8
    On the Orient, North
    Aired · Sat, Apr 30, 1988 · 30m
  • E9
    The Coffin
    Aired · Sat, May 7, 1988 · 30m

    A eccentric reclusive man who builds robots has to deal with a  greedy brother who is a money grabbing leech.

  • E10
    Tyrannosaurus Rex
    Aired · Sat, May 14, 1988 · 30m
  • E11
    There Was An Old Woman
    Aired · Sat, May 21, 1988 · 30m
  • E12
    And So Died Riabouchinska
    Aired · Sat, May 28, 1988 · 30m

    A ventriloquist and his female dummy are the main suspects in a murder case.

Season 3
12 episodes · 12 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Dwarf
    Aired · Fri, Jul 7, 1989 · 30m

    A carnival operator of a hall of mirrors makes fun of a little person who is a regular attendee of his attraction. He shows a young lady who runs a nearby attraction what he is doing and she follows the little person home out of curiosity about the man.

  • E2
    A Miracle of Rare Device
    Aired · Fri, Jul 14, 1989 · 30m

    Two enterprising men find hope in a desert mirage while trying to evade their nemesis who keeps following them and stealing their discoveries.

  • E3
    The Lake
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 1989 · 30m
  • E4
    The Wind
    Aired · Fri, Jul 28, 1989 · 30m
  • E5
    The Pedestrian
    Aired · Fri, Aug 4, 1989 · 30m
  • E6
    A Sound of Thunder
    Aired · Fri, Aug 11, 1989 · 30m

    A time travel agency offers a unique service: dinosaur hunts in the prehistoric era.

  • E7
    The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
    Aired · Fri, Aug 18, 1989 · 30m
  • E8
    The Haunting of the New
    Aired · Fri, Sep 15, 1989 · 30m
  • E9
    To the Chicago Abyss
    Aired · Fri, Sep 22, 1989 · 30m
  • E10
    Hail and Farewell
    Aired · Fri, Sep 29, 1989 · 30m
  • E11
    The Veldt
    Aired · Fri, Nov 10, 1989 · 30m
  • E12
    Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
    Aired · Fri, Nov 17, 1989 · 30m
Season 4
12 episodes · 12 aired
▾
  • E1
    Mars is Heaven
    Aired · Fri, Jul 20, 1990 · 30m
  • E2
    The Murderer
    Aired · Fri, Jul 27, 1990 · 30m
  • E3
    Touched with Fire
    Aired · Fri, Aug 3, 1990 · 30m

    On a scorching day, a pair of oldtimers decide to tail an irascible lady. One of them believs that the lady is about to be murdered because of the heat.

  • E4
    The Black Ferris
    Aired · Fri, Aug 10, 1990 · 30m
  • E5
    Usher II
    Aired · Fri, Aug 17, 1990 · 30m

    In a future society, books of fantasy and horror have been banned. One man attempts to fight the authorities by creating an animatronic funhouse based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and invites his enemies to one last masquerade party.

  • E6
    Touch of Petulance
    Aired · Fri, Oct 12, 1990 · 30m
  • E7
    And The Moon Be Still As Bright
    Aired · Fri, Oct 19, 1990 · 30m
  • E8
    The Toynbee Convector
    Aired · Fri, Oct 26, 1990 · 30m
  • E9
    Exorcism
    Aired · Fri, Nov 2, 1990 · 30m
  • E10
    The Day It Rained Forever
    Aired · Fri, Nov 9, 1990 · 30m
  • E11
    The Long Years
    Aired · Fri, Nov 16, 1990 · 30m
  • E12
    Here There Be Tygers
    Aired · Fri, Nov 30, 1990 · 30m
Season 5
8 episodes · 8 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Earthmen
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1992 · 30m
  • E2
    Zero Hour
    Aired · Fri, Jan 10, 1992 · 30m
  • E3
    The Jar
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1992 · 30m
  • E4
    Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1992 · 30m
  • E5
    The Concrete Mixer
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1992 · 30m
  • E6
    The Utterly Perfect Murder
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1992 · 30m
  • E7
    Let's Play Poison
    Aired · Tue, Jan 14, 1992 · 30m
  • E8
    The Martian
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1992 · 30m
Season 6
15 episodes · 15 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Lonely One
    Aired · Fri, Jul 10, 1992 · 30m
  • E2
    The Happiness Machine
    Aired · Fri, Jul 17, 1992 · 30m
  • E3
    Tomorrow's Child
    Aired · Fri, Aug 14, 1992 · 30m
  • E4
    The Anthem Sprinters
    Aired · Fri, Aug 21, 1992 · 30m
  • E5
    By the Numbers
    Aired · Fri, Sep 11, 1992 · 30m
  • E6
    The Long Rain
    Aired · Sat, Sep 19, 1992 · 30m

    When a crew from the drought stricken Earth lands on a planet, their captain leads them through a jungle in a constant downpour in search of the Sun Dome.

  • E7
    The Dead Man
    Aired · Sat, Sep 26, 1992 · 30m
  • E8
    Sun and Shadow
    Aired · Sat, Oct 3, 1992 · 30m
  • E9
    Silent Towns
    Aired · Sat, Oct 10, 1992 · 30m

    A technician finds himself stranded on Mars when a crisis on Earth causes the recall of every colonist on the Red Planet. He searches in hope of finding out he is not alone then a phone starts to ring.

  • E10
    Downwind from Gettysburg
    Aired · Sat, Oct 17, 1992 · 30m
  • E11
    Some Live Like Lazarus
    Aired · Sat, Oct 24, 1992 · 30m
  • E12
    The Handler
    Aired · Wed, Aug 19, 1992 · 30m
  • E13
    Fee Fie Foe Fum
    Aired · Fri, Aug 21, 1992 · 30m
  • E14
    Great Wide World Over There
    Aired · Thu, Aug 20, 1992 · 30m
  • E15
    The Tombstone
    Aired · Fri, Oct 30, 1992 · 30m