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The Ray Bradbury Theater : Season 6
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Air date: 10 Jul '92 - 23 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 (23)
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The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
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1. The Lonely One
10 Jul '92Members of an expedition to Mars find their insanity questioned by the local inhabitants.
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2. The Happiness Machine
17 Jul '92A group of 8-year-olds rally around an invisible person who promises them the world.
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3. Tomorrow's Child
14 Aug '92A backwoods man impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar.
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4. The Handler
19 Aug '92A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
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5. Great Wide World Over There
20 Aug '92A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
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6. Fee Fie Foe Fum
21 Aug '92A man seeks revenge on a bully from his childhood.
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7. The Anthem Sprinters
21 Aug '92A teacher worries that his students are trying to kill him.
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8. By the Numbers
11 Sep '92New life welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
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9. The Long Rain
19 Sep '92Three women try to decide whether to walk to a movie since there is a serial killer on the loose. Although her companions disagree, one of the women insists.
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10. The Dead Man
26 Sep '92One day a man wakes up and decides to build a happiness machine. Much to his wife's dismay it becomes an obsession.
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11. Sun and Shaddow
03 Oct '92A malfunctioning birth machine that teleports the baby out of the womb transforms a child into a fourth-dimensional being.
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12. Silent Towns
10 Oct '92A mortician sends the townspeople who mocked and insulted him to their graves with a little something extra.
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13. Downwind from Gettysburg
17 Oct '92An illiterate woman asks her nephew to write letters for her so she can talk to all the people in the world that she's never seen.
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14. Some Live Like Lazarus
24 Oct '92A grandmother becomes worried when her granddaughter's husband installs a new garbage disposal in the house.
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15. The Tombstone
30 Oct '92An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event.
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16. By the Numbers
11 Sep '92On a train, a man learns the truth about about a boy and his drill sergeant father that he met years ago at a hotel pool.
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17. The Long Rain
19 Sep '92When a spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet.
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18. The Dead Man
26 Sep '92A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead.
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19. Sun and Shadow
03 Oct '92A local man protests when a rude director attempts to use his house for the backdrop of a liquor commercial.
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20. Silent Towns
10 Oct '92The last man on Mars after an evacuation seeks the last woman on Mars.
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21. Downwind from Gettysburg
17 Oct '92A robot Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
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22. Some Live Like Lazarus
24 Oct '92A boy and girl fall in love as children, and vow to marry when they're 21. However, the boy's dominating mother has other plans.
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23. The Tombstone
30 Oct '92A salesman and his wife are forced to take a room where the previous occupant left a tombstone.
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