The Ray Bradbury Theater

All Episodes 1985 - 1992
TV-14

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  • 1985-05-21T04:00:00Z
  • 23m
  • 1d 2h 20m (65 episodes)
  • Ray Bradbury
  • United States
  • English
  • Alberta Filmworks + 1 more, Atlantis Films
  • Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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.

65 episodes

Series Premiere

1985-05-21T04:00:00Z

1x01 Marionettes, Inc.

Series Premiere

1x01 Marionettes, Inc.

  • 1985-05-21T04:00:00Z29m

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.

1985-06-04T04:00:00Z

1x02 The Playground

1x02 The Playground

  • 1985-06-04T04:00:00Z28m

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.

Season Finale

1985-07-02T04:00:00Z

1x03 The Crowd

Season Finale

1x03 The Crowd

  • 1985-07-02T04:00:00Z28m

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.

Season Premiere

1986-02-22T05:00:00Z

2x01 The Town Where No One Got Off

Season Premiere

2x01 The Town Where No One Got Off

  • 1986-02-22T05:00:00Z31m

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.

1986-02-22T05:00:00Z

2x02 The Screaming Woman

2x02 The Screaming Woman

  • 1986-02-22T05:00:00Z29m

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

Season Finale

1986-02-22T05:00:00Z

2x03 Banshee

Season Finale

2x03 Banshee

  • 1986-02-22T05:00:00Z29m

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

Season Premiere

1988-01-23T05:00:00Z

3x01 The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

Season Premiere

3x01 The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

  • 1988-01-23T05:00:00Z26m

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

1988-02-06T05:00:00Z

3x02 Skeleton

3x02 Skeleton

  • 1988-02-06T05:00:00Z26m

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

1988-02-13T05:00:00Z

3x03 The Emissary

3x03 The Emissary

  • 1988-02-13T05:00:00Z26m

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

1988-02-20T05:00:00Z

3x04 Gotcha!

3x04 Gotcha!

  • 1988-02-20T05:00:00Z26m

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

1988-03-05T05:00:00Z

3x05 The Man Upstairs

3x05 The Man Upstairs

  • 1988-03-05T05:00:00Z26m

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

1988-04-09T04:00:00Z

3x06 The Small Assassin

3x06 The Small Assassin

  • 1988-04-09T04:00:00Z26m

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

1988-04-16T04:00:00Z

3x07 Punishment Without Crime

3x07 Punishment Without Crime

  • 1988-04-16T04:00:00Z26m

A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

1988-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x08 On the Orient, North

3x08 On the Orient, North

  • 1988-04-30T04:00:00Z26m

A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

1988-05-07T04:00:00Z

3x09 The Coffin

3x09 The Coffin

  • 1988-05-07T04:00:00Z26m

An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

1988-05-14T04:00:00Z

3x10 Tyrannosaurus Rex

3x10 Tyrannosaurus Rex

  • 1988-05-14T04:00:00Z26m

A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

1988-05-21T04:00:00Z

3x11 There Was an Old Woman

3x11 There Was an Old Woman

  • 1988-05-21T04:00:00Z26m

Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

Season Finale

1988-05-28T04:00:00Z

3x12 And So Died Riabouchinska

Season Finale

3x12 And So Died Riabouchinska

  • 1988-05-28T04:00:00Z24m

A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

Season Premiere

1989-07-07T04:00:00Z

4x01 The Dwarf

Season Premiere

4x01 The Dwarf

  • 1989-07-07T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1989-07-14T04:00:00Z

4x02 A Miracle of Rare Device

4x02 A Miracle of Rare Device

  • 1989-07-14T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1989-07-21T04:00:00Z

4x03 The Lake

4x03 The Lake

  • 1989-07-21T04:00:00Z24m

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

1989-07-28T04:00:00Z

4x04 The Wind

4x04 The Wind

  • 1989-07-28T04:00:00Z24m

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

1989-08-04T04:00:00Z

4x05 The Pedestrian

4x05 The Pedestrian

  • 1989-08-04T04:00:00Z24m

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

1989-08-11T04:00:00Z

4x06 A Sound of Thunder

4x06 A Sound of Thunder

  • 1989-08-11T04:00:00Z24m

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

When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

1989-09-15T04:00:00Z

4x08 The Haunting of the New

4x08 The Haunting of the New

  • 1989-09-15T04:00:00Z24m

A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

1989-09-22T04:00:00Z

4x09 To the Chicago Abyss

4x09 To the Chicago Abyss

  • 1989-09-22T04:00:00Z24m

In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.

1989-09-29T04:00:00Z

4x10 Hail and Farewell

4x10 Hail and Farewell

  • 1989-09-29T04:00:00Z24m

Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.

1989-11-10T05:00:00Z

4x11 The Veldt

4x11 The Veldt

  • 1989-11-10T05:00:00Z24m

Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

Season Finale

1989-11-17T05:00:00Z

4x12 Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

Season Finale

4x12 Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

  • 1989-11-17T05:00:00Z24m

A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

Season Premiere

1990-07-20T04:00:00Z

5x01 Mars Is Heaven

Season Premiere

5x01 Mars Is Heaven

  • 1990-07-20T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1990-07-27T04:00:00Z

5x02 The Murderer

5x02 The Murderer

  • 1990-07-27T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1990-08-03T04:00:00Z

5x03 Touched with Fire

5x03 Touched with Fire

  • 1990-08-03T04:00:00Z23m

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

1990-08-10T04:00:00Z

5x04 The Black Ferris

5x04 The Black Ferris

  • 1990-08-10T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1990-08-17T04:00:00Z

5x05 Usher II

5x05 Usher II

  • 1990-08-17T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1990-10-12T04:00:00Z

5x06 Touch of Petulance

5x06 Touch of Petulance

  • 1990-10-12T04:00:00Z23m

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

1990-10-26T04:00:00Z

5x08 The Toynbee Convector

5x08 The Toynbee Convector

  • 1990-10-26T04:00:00Z23m

A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

1990-11-02T05:00:00Z

5x09 Exorcism

5x09 Exorcism

  • 1990-11-02T05:00:00Z23m

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.

1990-11-09T05:00:00Z

5x10 The Day It Rained Forever

5x10 The Day It Rained Forever

  • 1990-11-09T05:00:00Z23m

In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

1990-11-16T05:00:00Z

5x11 The Long Years

5x11 The Long Years

  • 1990-11-16T05:00:00Z23m

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.

Season Finale

1990-11-30T05:00:00Z

5x12 Here There Be Tygers

Season Finale

5x12 Here There Be Tygers

  • 1990-11-30T05:00:00Z23m

Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

Season Premiere

1992-01-03T05:00:00Z

6x01 The Earthmen

Season Premiere

6x01 The Earthmen

  • 1992-01-03T05:00:00Z23m

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

1992-01-10T05:00:00Z

6x02 Zero Hour

6x02 Zero Hour

  • 1992-01-10T05:00:00Z23m

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

1992-01-17T05:00:00Z

6x03 The Jar

6x03 The Jar

  • 1992-01-17T05:00:00Z23m

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

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

1992-01-31T05:00:00Z

6x05 The Concrete Mixer

6x05 The Concrete Mixer

  • 1992-01-31T05:00:00Z23m

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

6x06 The Utterly Perfect Murder

  • 1992-02-07T05:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-02-14T05:00:00Z

6x07 Let's Play Poison

6x07 Let's Play Poison

  • 1992-02-14T05:00:00Z23m

After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

1992-02-21T05:00:00Z

6x08 The Martian

6x08 The Martian

  • 1992-02-21T05:00:00Z23m

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

1992-07-10T04:00:00Z

6x09 The Lonely One

6x09 The Lonely One

  • 1992-07-10T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-07-17T04:00:00Z

6x10 The Happiness Machine

6x10 The Happiness Machine

  • 1992-07-17T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1992-08-14T04:00:00Z

6x11 Tomorrow's Child

6x11 Tomorrow's Child

  • 1992-08-14T04:00:00Z23m

An 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.

1992-08-21T04:00:00Z

6x12 The Anthem Sprinters

6x12 The Anthem Sprinters

  • 1992-08-21T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1992-09-11T04:00:00Z

6x13 By the Numbers

6x13 By the Numbers

  • 1992-09-11T04:00:00Z23m

The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

1992-09-19T04:00:00Z

6x14 The Long Rain

6x14 The Long Rain

  • 1992-09-19T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1992-09-26T04:00:00Z

6x15 The Dead Man

6x15 The Dead Man

  • 1992-09-26T04:00:00Z24m

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.

1992-10-03T04:00:00Z

6x16 Sun and Shadow

6x16 Sun and Shadow

  • 1992-10-03T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-10-10T04:00:00Z

6x17 Silent Towns

6x17 Silent Towns

  • 1992-10-10T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-10-17T04:00:00Z

6x18 Downwind from Gettysburg

6x18 Downwind from Gettysburg

  • 1992-10-17T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-10-24T04:00:00Z

6x19 Some Live Like Lazarus

6x19 Some Live Like Lazarus

  • 1992-10-24T04:00:00Z23m

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.

1992-10-27T05:00:00Z

6x20 The Handler

6x20 The Handler

  • 1992-10-27T05:00:00Z22m

A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

1992-10-28T05:00:00Z

6x21 Fee Fie Foe Fum

6x21 Fee Fie Foe Fum

  • 1992-10-28T05:00:00Z23m

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.

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.

Season Finale

1992-10-30T05:00:00Z

6x23 The Tombstone

Season Finale

6x23 The Tombstone

  • 1992-10-30T05:00:00Z23m

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.

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