List of Ray Bradbury Theater episodes
This is a list of episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater. The series broadcast 65 episodes over 6 seasons in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
| 1 | 6 | May 21, 1985 | February 22, 1986 | HBO | ||
| 2 | 12 | January 23, 1988 | May 28, 1988 | |||
| 3 | 12 | July 7, 1989 | November 17, 1989 | USA Network | ||
| 4 | 12 | July 20, 1990 | November 30, 1990 | |||
| 5 | 8 | January 3, 1992 | February 21, 1992 | |||
| 6 | 15 | July 10, 1992 | October 30, 1992 | |||
Episodes
Season 1 (1985–86)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Marionettes, Inc." | Paul Lynch | Ray Bradbury | May 21, 1985 | |
| An overworked suburbanite husband (James Coco) uses a robot duplicate to allow himself to have fun while his overbearing wife is left none the wiser. However, his contentment does not last long. Kenneth Welsh and Leslie Nielsen also guest star. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Playground" | William Fruet | Ray Bradbury | June 4, 1985 | |
| A father haunted by the constant bullying he suffered in his childhood (William Shatner) takes his son to a local playground, only to find that the ghosts of his past now reside in the playground. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Crowd" | Ralph L. Thomas | Ray Bradbury | July 2, 1985 | |
| A car crash survivor (Nick Mancuso) investigates a mysterious and sinister crowd that congregates at the sites of severe automobile accidents. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Town Where No One Got Off" | Don McBrearty | Ray Bradbury | February 22, 1986 | |
| A city slicker (Jeff Goldblum) impulsively stops at a rural town, and finds himself stalked by a sinister old man (Ed McNamara). | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Screaming Woman" | Bruce Pittman | Ray Bradbury | February 22, 1986 | |
| A little girl (Drew Barrymore) hears a woman scream while playing in the middle of the forest. When no adults believe her, the girl decides to take matters into her own hands and investigates. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Banshee" | Douglas Jackson | Ray Bradbury | February 22, 1986 | |
| An egotistical director (Peter O’Toole) challenges a skeptical young writer (Charles Martin Smith) to investigate the nearby woods to find out if the banshee said to haunt the woods exists. | ||||||
Season 2 (1988)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" | Gilbert M. Shilton | Ray Bradbury | January 23, 1988 | |
| A murderer (Michael Ironside) becomes obsessed with cleaning any evidence that can implicate him in the crime. Robert Vaughn also guest stars. | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | "Skeleton" | Steve DiMarco | Ray Bradbury | February 6, 1988 | |
| A hypochondriac (Eugene Levy) contacts a “bone specialist” to get rid of his skeleton. | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | "The Emissary" | Sturla Gunnarsson | Ray Bradbury | February 13, 1988 | |
| A diseased boy’s dog brings him people and things that it feels he needs, including a kindhearted schoolteacher (Helen Shaver). After the schoolteacher dies, the dog decides it has one last task it must perform for its master. | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | "Gotcha!" | Brad Turner | Ray Bradbury | February 20, 1988 | |
| A lonely man (Saul Rubinek) falls in love with a woman (Kate Lynch). When he asks her if the relationship will last, she decides to check by playing a game she calls “Gotcha!”. | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | "The Man Upstairs" | Alain Bonnot | Ray Bradbury | March 5, 1988 | |
| A young boy suspects his grandmother’s strange new lodger is actually a vampire. | ||||||
| 12 | 6 | "The Small Assassin" | Tom Cotter | Ray Bradbury | April 9, 1988 | |
| A paranoid new mother (Susan Wooldridge) suspects that her baby is trying to kill her. | ||||||
| 13 | 7 | "Punishment Without Crime" | Bruce McDonald | Ray Bradbury | April 16, 1988 | |
| A man (Donald Pleasence) is arrested for killing a robot facsimile of his adulterous wife. | ||||||
| 14 | 8 | "On the Orient, North" | Frank Cassenti | Ray Bradbury | April 29, 1988 | |
| A nurse (Magali Noël) decides to assist a ghastly passenger (Ian Bannen) to reach his destiny before some unusual illness ends him. | ||||||
| 15 | 9 | "The Coffin" | Tom Cotter | Ray Bradbury | May 7, 1988 | |
| A dying millionaire (Daniel O’Herlihy) builds a glass coffin, much to the amusement of his greedy brother (Denholm Elliott). After the millionaire dies, his brother is told that if he can find the millionaire’s savings, which are hidden inside his mansion, his brother gets everything. But this is not as simple as it looks. | ||||||
| 16 | 10 | "Tyrannosaurus Rex" | Gilles Béhat | Ray Bradbury | May 14, 1988 | |
| A cruel producer bullies a stop-motion animator he hired. The animator decides to get revenge by crafting a tyrannosaurus rex in the producer’s image. | ||||||
| 17 | 11 | "There Was an Old Woman" | Bruce McDonald | Ray Bradbury | May 21, 1988 | |
| An old woman (Mary Morris) who spent her entire life defying death attempts to claim her body from the mortuary after she finally bites the dust. | ||||||
| 18 | 12 | "And So Died Riabouchinska" | Denys Granier-Deferre | Ray Bradbury | May 28, 1988 | |
| A ventriloquist (Alan Bates) is implicated in a murder. | ||||||
Season 3 (1989)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | "The Dwarf" | Costa Botes | Ray Bradbury | July 7, 1989 |
| 20 | 2 | "A Miracle of Rare Device" | Roger Tompkins | Ray Bradbury | July 14, 1989 |
| 21 | 3 | "The Lake" | Pat Robins | Ray Bradbury | July 21, 1989 |
| 22 | 4 | "The Wind" | Graham McLean | Ray Bradbury | July 28, 1989 |
| 23 | 5 | "The Pedestrian" | Alun Bollinger | Ray Bradbury | August 4, 1989 |
| 24 | 6 | "A Sound of Thunder" | Costa Botes | Ray Bradbury | August 11, 1989 |
| 25 | 7 | "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone" | David Copeland | Ray Bradbury | August 18, 1989 |
| 26 | 8 | "The Haunting of the New" | Roger Tompkins | Ray Bradbury | September 15, 1989 |
| 27 | 9 | "To the Chicago Abyss" | Randy Bradshaw | Ray Bradbury | September 22, 1989 |
| 28 | 10 | "Hail and Farewell" | Allan Kroeker | Ray Bradbury | September 30, 1989 |
| 29 | 11 | "The Veldt" | Brad Turner | Ray Bradbury | November 10, 1989 |
| 30 | 12 | "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!" | David Brandes | Ray Bradbury | November 17, 1989 |
Season 4 (1990)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 | "Mars Is Heaven" | John Laing | Ray Bradbury | July 20, 1990 | |
| 32 | 2 | "The Murderer" | Roger Tompkins | Ray Bradbury | July 27, 1990 | |
| 33 | 3 | "Touched with Fire" | Roger Tompkins | Ray Bradbury | August 3, 1990 | |
| 34 | 4 | "The Black Ferris" | Roger Tompkins | Ray Bradbury | August 10, 1990 | |
| 35 | 5 | "Usher II" | Lee Tamahori | Ray Bradbury | August 17, 1990 | |
| Adaptation of the story from The Martian Chronicles, starring Patrick Macnee as Stendahl. | ||||||
| 36 | 6 | "Touch of Petulance" | John Laing | Ray Bradbury | October 12, 1990 | |
| 37 | 7 | "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" | Randy Bradshaw | Ray Bradbury | October 19, 1990 | |
| 38 | 8 | "The Toynbee Convector" | John Laing | Ray Bradbury | October 26, 1990 | |
| 39 | 9 | "Exorcism" | Brad Turner | Ray Bradbury | November 2, 1990 | |
| 40 | 10 | "The Day It Rained Forever" | Randy Bradshaw | Ray Bradbury | November 9, 1990 | |
| 41 | 11 | "The Long Years" | Paul Lynch | Ray Bradbury | November 16, 1990 | |
| 42 | 12 | "Here There Be Tygers" | John Laing | Ray Bradbury | November 30, 1990 | |
Season 5 (1992)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 1 | "The Earthmen" | Graeme Campbell | Ray Bradbury | January 3, 1992 |
| 44 | 2 | "Zero Hour" | Don McBrearty | Ray Bradbury | January 10, 1992 |
| 45 | 3 | "The Jar" | Randy Bradshaw | Ray Bradbury | January 17, 1992 |
| 46 | 4 | "Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties" | Randy Bradshaw | Ray Bradbury | January 24, 1992 |
| 47 | 5 | "The Concrete Mixer" | Eleanor Lindo | Ray Bradbury | January 31, 1992 |
| 48 | 6 | "The Utterly Perfect Murder" | Stuart Margolin | Ray Bradbury | February 7, 1992 |
| 49 | 7 | "Let's Play Poison" | Bruce Pittman | Ray Bradbury | February 14, 1992 |
| 50 | 8 | "The Martian" | Anne Wheeler | Ray Bradbury | February 21, 1992 |
Season 6 (1992)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 1 | "The Lonely One" | Ian Mune | Ray Bradbury | July 10, 1992 |
| 52 | 2 | "The Happiness Machine" | John Laing | Ray Bradbury | July 17, 1992 |
| 53 | 3 | "Tomorrow's Child" | Costa Botes | Ray Bradbury | August 14, 1992 |
| 54 | 4 | "The Anthem Sprinters" | Wayne Tourell | Ray Bradbury | August 21, 1992 |
| 55 | 5 | "By the Numbers" | Wayne Tourell | Ray Bradbury | September 11, 1992 |
| 56 | 6 | "The Long Rain" | Lee Tamahori | Ray Bradbury | September 19, 1992 |
| 57 | 7 | "The Dead Man" | Costa Botes | Ray Bradbury | September 26, 1992 |
| 58 | 8 | "Sun and Shadow[lower-alpha 1]" | Larry Parr | Ray Bradbury | October 3, 1992 |
| 59 | 9 | "Silent Towns" | Lee Tamahori | Ray Bradbury | October 10, 1992 |
| 60 | 10 | "Downwind From Gettysburg" | Chris Bailey | Ray Bradbury | October 17, 1992 |
| 61 | 11 | "Some Live Like Lazarus" | Peter Sharp | Ray Bradbury | October 24, 1992 |
| 62 | 12 | "The Handler" | Peter Sharp | Ray Bradbury | October 27, 1992 |
| 63 | 13 | "Fee Fie Foe Fum" | John Reid | Ray Bradbury | October 28, 1992 |
| 64 | 14 | "Great Wide World Over There" | Ian Mune | Ray Bradbury | October 29, 1992 |
| 65 | 15 | "The Tombstone" | Warrick Attewell | Ray Bradbury | October 30, 1992 |
- The title appears on-screen as "Sun and Shaddow"
External links
- Ray Bradbury Theater/episodes List of Ray Bradbury Theater episodes – list of episodes at IMDb
- List of The Ray Bradbury Theater episodes at TV.com
- The Ray Bradbury Theater Episode Guide
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