The Ray Bradbury Theater

Season 6

TV-14

"The Ray Bradbury Theater" was a Canadian produced anthology series scripted by famed science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories. The show ran from 1985 until 1992. Bradbury provided the introduction to each story.

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23 Episodes

The Earthmen
E1
The EarthmenA crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
Zero Hour
E2
Zero HourIn the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
The Jar
E3
The JarCuckolded farmer Charlie purchases a weird specimen in a jar from a carnival sideshow, hoping to gain some respect in the town. When his faithless wife threatens to reveal that the creature is a fake, Charlie is driven to an act of desperation.
Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
E4
Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate EmptiesGreentown, Illnois is in the midst of the "desperate empties," the doldrums that come at the tail-end of summer. To bring some excitement to the town, twelve-year-old Charlie helps the rascally Colonel Stonesteel bury a fake mummy to be uncovered at the Labor Day parade in an elaborate hoax.
The Concrete Mixer
E5
The Concrete MixerAn invasion force from Mars heads to Earth, prepared to overcome a strong military resistance. Instead, when they arrive they are greeted by glad-handing community representatives, a marching band, and the key to the city. The aliens are soon introduced to the vulgar and consumer-oriented "American way of life" which turns out to be a bigger threat than an armed resistance would have been.
The Utterly Perfect Murder
E6
The Utterly Perfect MurderAs 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.
Let's Play Poison
E7
Let's Play PoisonMr. Howard witnesses the death of a favorite student because of bullying. He retired but is called back as a substitute teacher. Howard informs his new class that he considers them devils and will treat them accordingly, and they plan a chilling revenge around a game called Poison.
The Martian
E8
The MartianA middle-aged Earth couple emigrates to Mars after the death of their son Tom. On a particularly bad night of grieving, a psychically sensitive native Martian is captured by their strong emotions and forced into the form of Tom and is accepted as such by the bereaved mother. The father, though, is torn by the conflict between his revulsion and concern for his wife.
The Lonely One
E9
The Lonely OneAfter 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.
The Happiness Machine
E10
The Happiness MachineA 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.
Tomorrow's Child
E11
Tomorrow's ChildAn 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.
The Anthem Sprinters
E12
The Anthem SprintersAn 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.
By the Numbers
E13
By the NumbersThe manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
The Long Rain
E14
The Long RainWhen 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.
The Dead Man
E15
The Dead ManA 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.
Sun and Shadow
E16
Sun and ShadowAn 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.
Silent Towns
E17
Silent TownsA 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.
Downwind from Gettysburg
E18
Downwind from GettysburgWalter 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.
Some Live Like Lazarus
E19
Some Live Like LazarusA 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.
The Handler
E20
The HandlerA small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Fee Fie Foe Fum
E21
Fee Fie Foe FumA 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.
Great Wide World Over There
E22
Great Wide World Over ThereCora 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.
The Tombstone
E23
The TombstoneA 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.