The Ray Bradbury Theater
"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.
- 1985-1992
- 6 seasons
- HBO
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- 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.
Season 4 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 1990
Episode 1
Mars Is Heaven
23 mins
The first Earth visitors to Mars discover a replica of small town America, just as they remembered it from their childhoods.
Episode 2
The Murderer
23 mins
A psychiatrist is summoned to a prison to interview Albert Brock, a respectable businessman who went on a murderous rampage--against phones, computers, music players, and all the other electronic devices that fill the world with ceaseless noise and distraction.
Episode 3
Touched with Fire
23 mins
Mr. Foxe and Mr. Shaw, two retired insurance salesman, take up a new hobby. They have discovered that murders most commonly occur at 101 degrees, and to people who are exceedingly aggravating. They track down a woman, Mrs. Shrike, who they believe is the next person to be murdered because of her irritating ways.
Episode 4
The Black Ferris
23 mins
Two boys, Hank and Peter, learn that a traveling carnival owner, Mr. Cooger, is using an enchanted Ferris wheel to turn himself into a small child so he can infiltrate the house of a local widow and steal her jewelry. However, the boys soon discover that no one believes them.
Episode 5
Usher II
23 mins
Twenty years after the government has banned all fantasy novels, Stendahl seeks revenge by having an architect build an enormous castle populated by androids and based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. When the government censor, Garrett, comes to inform him it will be burned to the ground. Stendahl kills Garrett and replaces him with an android to lure the other members of the government censor committee to his castle and destroy them in a suitable manner.
Episode 6
Touch of Petulance
22 mins
Jonathan Hughes is traveling on the train from work, when he meets a man reading a paper from the future, with an article saying that Hughes will kill his wife. The man admits that he is Hughes' future self, come back to stop Hughes from murdering his wife sometime in his future. The older Jonathan goes home with his younger self to try to figure out what went wrong and stop it.
Episode 7
And the Moon Be Still as Bright
23 mins
The third Martian expedition arrives to discover that the Martians have been wiped out by a plague of chicken pox spread by one of the previous expeditions. The expedition's archaeologist, Spender, becomes obsessed with the extinct Martians and their lost civilization, and turns against his comrades to stop them from despoiling the planet.
Episode 8
The Toynbee Convector
23 mins
When Earth is threatened with overpopulation and pollution, architect Craig Bennett Stiles built a time machine and traveled 100 years into the future. He then returned to the present with a vision of hope, of humanity united together. Now reporter Roger Shumway comes to him for an interview as the world prepares to celebrate the past Stiles' arrival, but Stiles has a secret to reveal.
Episode 9
Exorcism
23 mins
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.
Episode 10
The Day It Rained Forever
23 mins
Three men, Mr. Terle, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Fremley, are the only residents of a desert hotel stricken by years of drought. When the one time of the year it ever rains passes without occasion, all looks hopeless. But an elderly music teacher seeking a receptive audience arrives and promises hope.
Episode 11
The Long Years
23 mins
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.
Episode 12
Here There Be Tygers
23 mins
An Earth exploration ship lands on a beautifully green and lush but apparently uninhabited planet. The company representative that has financed the trip, Chatterton, is there for only one reason and is to see what resources they might be able to exploit. For Driscoll, one of the crew members, he believes he has found Eden. There are also strange forces at work on the planet with Chatterton feeling tremors that the others do not. Driscoll soon realizes that the planet is alive and can grant you your every wish. It will also mete out punishment to those who would harm it.
