• Air date: 20 Jul '90 20 episodes
      The 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...
  • List of Episodes (20)
    • 1. Mars is Heaven

      20 Jul '90
      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.
    • 2. The Murderer

      27 Jul '90
      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.
    • 3. Touched with Fire

      03 Aug '90
      Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
    • 4. The Black Ferris

      10 Aug '90
      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.
    • 5. Usher II

      17 Aug '90
      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.
    • 6. Touch of Petulance

      12 Oct '90
      A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.
    • 7. And The Moon Be Still As Bright

      19 Oct '90
      Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.
    • 8. The Toynbee Convector

      26 Oct '90
      A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.
    • 9. Exorcism

      02 Nov '90
      A woman takes a potion to rid herself of the influence of her next-door neighbor, who she believes has bewitched her.
    • 10. The Day It Rained Forever

      09 Nov '90
      The music of a free-spirited woman brings rain to a town suffering from drought.
    • 11. The Long Years

      16 Nov '90
      A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
    • 12. Here There Be Tygers

      30 Nov '90
      Unknown to an exploratory team, the Utopia-like world they have discovered has yet to unleash its deadly forces.
    • 13. The Earthmen

      03 Jan '92
    • 14. Zero Hour

      10 Jan '92
    • 15. The Jar

      17 Jan '92
    • 16. Colonel Stonesteel and the "Desperate Empties"

      24 Jan '92
    • 17. The Concrete Mixer

      31 Jan '92
    • 18. The Utterly Perfect Murder

      07 Feb '92
    • 19. Let's Play Poison

      14 Feb '92
    • 20. The Martian

      21 Feb '92