The Ray Bradbury Theater
The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985 6 Seasons 65 Episodes ⭐ 6.9 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

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.

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Marionettes, Inc.

John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the

EP 2

The Playground

When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playg

EP 3

The Crowd

A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days late

EP 1

The Town Where No One Got Off

A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different w

EP 2

The Screaming Woman

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

EP 3

Banshee

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

EP 1

The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nat

EP 2

Skeleton

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

EP 3

The Emissary

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

EP 4

Gotcha!

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

EP 5

The Man Upstairs

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

EP 6

The Small Assassin

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

EP 7

Punishment Without Crime

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

EP 8

On the Orient, North

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

EP 9

The Coffin

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

EP 10

Tyrannosaurus Rex

A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it'

EP 11

There Was an Old Woman

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

EP 12

And So Died Riabouchinska

A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent.

EP 1

The Dwarf

A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil

EP 2

A Miracle of Rare Device

Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land a

EP 3

The Lake

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

EP 4

The Wind

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

EP 5

The Pedestrian

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

EP 6

A Sound of Thunder

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

EP 7

The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

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

EP 8

The Haunting of the New

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

EP 9

To the Chicago Abyss

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

EP 10

Hail and Farewell

Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years,

EP 11

The Veldt

Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African

EP 12

Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

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

EP 1

Mars Is Heaven

As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds some

EP 2

The Murderer

Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wris

EP 3

Touched with Fire

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

EP 4

The Black Ferris

Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until

EP 5

Usher II

When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of E

EP 6

Touch of Petulance

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

EP 7

And the Moon Be Still as Bright

Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the plan

EP 8

The Toynbee Convector

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

EP 9

Exorcism

The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone

EP 10

The Day It Rained Forever

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

EP 11

The Long Years

A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after the

EP 12

Here There Be Tygers

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

EP 1

The Earthmen

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

EP 2

Zero Hour

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

EP 3

The Jar

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

EP 4

Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

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

EP 5

The Concrete Mixer

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

EP 6

The Utterly Perfect Murder

As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks f

EP 7

Let's Play Poison

After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but the

EP 8

The Martian

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

EP 9

The Lonely One

After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her frie

EP 10

The Happiness Machine

A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. How

EP 11

Tomorrow's Child

An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human

EP 12

The Anthem Sprinters

An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting eve

EP 13

By the Numbers

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

EP 14

The Long Rain

When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome

EP 15

The Dead Man

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

EP 16

Sun and Shadow

An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the fi

EP 17

Silent Towns

A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the de

EP 18

Downwind from Gettysburg

Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to rec

EP 19

Some Live Like Lazarus

A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years

EP 20

The Handler

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

EP 21

Fee Fie Foe Fum

A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind the

EP 22

Great Wide World Over There

Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy

EP 23

The Tombstone

A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left

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