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The Ray Bradbury Theater : Season 4
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Air date: 07 Jul '89 - 12 episodesThe Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for two seasons on HBO, three episodes per season from 1985 to 1986, and four additional seasons on USA Network from 1988 to 1992. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury and many were based on short stories or novels he had written, including "A Sound of Thunder", "Marionettes, Inc.", "Banshee", "The Playground", "Mars is Heaven", "Usher II", "The Jar", "The Long Rain", "The Veldt", "The Small Assassin", "The Pedestrian", "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, "Here There Be Tygers", "The Toynbee Convector", and "Sun and Shadow". Many of the episodes focused on only one of Bradbury's original works. However, Bradbury occasionally included elements from his other works. "Marionettes, Inc." featured Fantoccini, a character from "I Sing the Body Electric!". "Gotcha!" included an opening sequence taken from "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair." Characters were renamed, and elements added...
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List of Episodes (12)
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1. The Dwarf
07 Jul '89A 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.
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2. A Miracle of Rare Device
14 Jul '89Two 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.
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3. The Lake
21 Jul '89An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.
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4. The Wind
28 Jul '89After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.
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5. The Pedestrian
04 Aug '89A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.
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6. A Sound of Thunder
11 Aug '89Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.
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7. The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
18 Aug '89When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.
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8. The Haunting of the New
15 Sep '89A 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.
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9. To the Chicago Abyss
22 Sep '89In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
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10. Hail and Farewell
29 Sep '89Willie, 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.
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11. The Veldt
10 Nov '89Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.
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12. Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
17 Nov '89A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.
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