Episode 1
The Earthmen
23m
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
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The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985TV-146 seasons6.9 / 10
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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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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Episode 2
Zero Hour
23m
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
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Episode 3
The Jar
23m
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
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Episode 4
Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
23m
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
Episode credits
Guest stars Shawn Ashmore
Episode 5
The Concrete Mixer
23m
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
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Episode 6
The Utterly Perfect Murder
23m
As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.
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Episode 7
Let's Play Poison
23m
After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.
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Episode 8
The Martian
23m
A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
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Episode 9
The Lonely One
23m
After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.
Episode credits
Directed by Graeme CampbellWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Sheila McCarthy, Joanna Cassidy, Patrick Smith
Episode 10
The Happiness Machine
24m
A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.
Episode credits
Directed by Don McBreartyWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Claire Chitham, Mimi Kuzyk, Elliott Gould
Episode 11
Tomorrow's Child
23m
An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.
Episode credits
Directed by Costa Botes, Randy BradshawWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Carol Kane, John Kerr, Michael Sarrazin
Episode 12
The Anthem Sprinters
24m
An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.
Episode credits
Directed by Randy BradshawWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Lee Grant, Michael J. Pollard, John Sumner, Henry Beckman
Episode 13
By the Numbers
23m
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
Episode credits
Written by Ray BradburyGuest stars Ciaran Pennington, Ray Sharkey, Marton Csokas, Erik Thomson
Episode 14
The Long Rain
24m
When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.
Episode credits
Directed by Stuart MargolinWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Jean Stapleton, Lucy Lawless
Episode 15
The Dead Man
24m
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 eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.
Episode credits
Directed by Bruce PittmanWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Bruce Allpress
Episode 16
Sun and Shadow
23m
An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.
Episode credits
Directed by Anne WheelerWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Erik Thomson, Ray Sharkey, Geordie Johnson
Episode 17
Silent Towns
23m
A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee TamahoriWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Marc Singer
Episode 18
Downwind from Gettysburg
23m
Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.
Episode credits
Directed by Costa BotesWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars David Taylor, Dean O'Gorman, Louise Fletcher
Episode 19
Some Live Like Lazarus
23m
A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.
Episode credits
Directed by Costa BotesWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars Stuart Margolin, Gregory Sierra
Episode 20
The Handler
22m
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee TamahoriWritten by Ray BradburyGuest stars John Glover
Episode 21
Fee Fie Foe Fum
23m2.0 / 10
A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.
Episode credits
Written by Ray BradburyGuest stars Robert Joy, Howard Hesseman, Patrick Smith
Episode 22
Great Wide World Over There
23m
Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.
Episode credits
Written by Ray BradburyGuest stars Janice Rule, Yannick Bisson
Episode 23
The Tombstone
23mfinale
A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.
Episode credits
Written by Ray BradburyGuest stars Shelley Duvall, Ron White
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
More about The Ray Bradbury Theater
Cast
Ray BradburySelf - Introduction
Jean Stapleton
Micheline PresleGrandma
David CarradineSpender
Janet-Laine GreenMrs. Leary
Jennifer DaleBanshee
Claire ChithamRosalyn AuffmannDavid Taylor
Credits
- Created by
- Ray Bradbury
- Written by
- Ray Bradbury
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 65
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
USA NetworkUnited States
HBOUnited States- Alberta FilmworksCanada
- Atlantis FilmsCanada
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