TV Show

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

6 seasons

65 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1985

Rating

TV Show

6.8/10

37 votes • HD

Season 1

3 episodes
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Marionettes, Inc.
Episode 1

Marionettes, Inc.

Episode 1 • May 21, 1985

John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.

6.7
29m
The Playground
Episode 2

The Playground

Episode 2 • Jun 04, 1985

When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.

7.0
28m
The Crowd
Episode 3

The Crowd

Episode 3 • Jul 02, 1985

A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

7.3
28m

Season 2

3 episodes
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The Town Where No One Got Off
Episode 1

The Town Where No One Got Off

Episode 1 • Feb 22, 1986

A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.

7.0
31m
The Screaming Woman
Episode 2

The Screaming Woman

Episode 2 • Feb 22, 1986

A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

7.5
29m
Banshee
Episode 3

Banshee

Episode 3 • Feb 22, 1986

An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

7.0
29m

Season 3

12 episodes
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The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
Episode 1

The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

Episode 1 • Jan 23, 1988

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

0.0
26m
Skeleton
Episode 2

Skeleton

Episode 2 • Feb 06, 1988

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

6.0
26m
The Emissary
Episode 3

The Emissary

Episode 3 • Feb 13, 1988

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

5.0
26m
Gotcha!
Episode 4

Gotcha!

Episode 4 • Feb 20, 1988

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

0.0
26m
The Man Upstairs
Episode 5

The Man Upstairs

Episode 5 • Mar 05, 1988

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

0.0
26m
The Small Assassin
Episode 6

The Small Assassin

Episode 6 • Apr 09, 1988

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

8.0
26m
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Season 4

12 episodes
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The Dwarf
Episode 1

The Dwarf

Episode 1 • Jul 07, 1989

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.

8.0
24m
A Miracle of Rare Device
Episode 2

A Miracle of Rare Device

Episode 2 • Jul 14, 1989

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.

0.0
24m
The Lake
Episode 3

The Lake

Episode 3 • Jul 21, 1989

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

0.0
24m
The Wind
Episode 4

The Wind

Episode 4 • Jul 28, 1989

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

0.0
24m
The Pedestrian
Episode 5

The Pedestrian

Episode 5 • Aug 04, 1989

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

0.0
24m
A Sound of Thunder
Episode 6

A Sound of Thunder

Episode 6 • Aug 11, 1989

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

0.0
24m
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Season 5

12 episodes
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Mars Is Heaven
Episode 1

Mars Is Heaven

Episode 1 • Jul 20, 1990

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.

0.0
23m
The Murderer
Episode 2

The Murderer

Episode 2 • Jul 27, 1990

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.

0.0
23m
Touched with Fire
Episode 3

Touched with Fire

Episode 3 • Aug 03, 1990

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

0.0
23m
The Black Ferris
Episode 4

The Black Ferris

Episode 4 • Aug 10, 1990

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.

0.0
23m
Usher II
Episode 5

Usher II

Episode 5 • Aug 17, 1990

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.

0.0
23m
Touch of Petulance
Episode 6

Touch of Petulance

Episode 6 • Oct 12, 1990

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

0.0
23m
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Season 6

23 episodes
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The Earthmen
Episode 1

The Earthmen

Episode 1 • Jan 03, 1992

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

0.0
23m
Zero Hour
Episode 2

Zero Hour

Episode 2 • Jan 10, 1992

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

0.0
23m
The Jar
Episode 3

The Jar

Episode 3 • Jan 17, 1992

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

0.0
23m
Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Episode 4

Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

Episode 4 • Jan 24, 1992

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

0.0
23m
The Concrete Mixer
Episode 5

The Concrete Mixer

Episode 5 • Jan 31, 1992

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

0.0
23m
The Utterly Perfect Murder
Episode 6

The Utterly Perfect Murder

Episode 6 • Feb 07, 1992

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.

0.0
23m
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