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 6 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1992
Episode 1
The Lonely One
23 mins
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.
Episode 2
The Happiness Machine
23 mins
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.
Episode 3
Tomorrow's Child
23 mins
A newborn in the near-future is accidentally transported into the fourth dimension, and he manifests in the "real world" as a small blue pyramid. His parents Peter and Polly must deal with their child's strange appearance, and make a decision as to whether to ultimately be with him or not.
Episode 4
The Anthem Sprinters
24 mins
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.
Episode 5
By the Numbers
23 mins
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
Episode 6
The Long Rain
23 mins
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.
Episode 7
The Dead Man
23 mins
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.
Episode 8
Sun and Shadow
22 mins
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.
Episode 9
Silent Towns
22 mins
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.
Episode 10
Downwind from Gettysburg
22 mins
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.
Episode 11
Some Live Like Lazarus
22 mins
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.
Episode 12
The Handler
21 mins
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Episode 13
Fee Fie Foe Fum
22 mins
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.
Episode 14
Great Wide World Over There
22 mins
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.
Episode 15
The Tombstone
23 mins
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.
