Ray Bradbury
Director
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
Season 6
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.
Released May 21, 1985
Episode 24 min
14+
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
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Production Companies: Alberta Filmworks, Atlantis Films
Network: HBO
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S6E1 - The Earthmen
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
Jan. 3, 1992, midnight
S6E2 - Zero Hour
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
Jan. 10, 1992, midnight
S6E3 - The Jar
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
Jan. 17, 1992, midnight
S6E4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
Jan. 24, 1992, midnight
S6E5 - The Concrete Mixer
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
Jan. 31, 1992, midnight
S6E6 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
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.
Feb. 7, 1992, midnight
S6E7 - Let's Play Poison
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.
Feb. 14, 1992, midnight
S6E8 - The Martian
A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
Feb. 21, 1992, midnight
S6E9 - The Lonely One
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.
July 10, 1992, midnight
S6E10 - The Happiness Machine
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.
July 17, 1992, midnight
S6E11 - Tomorrow's Child
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.
Aug. 14, 1992, midnight
S6E12 - The Anthem Sprinters
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.
Aug. 21, 1992, midnight
S6E13 - By the Numbers
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
Sept. 11, 1992, midnight
S6E14 - The Long Rain
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.
Sept. 19, 1992, midnight
S6E15 - The Dead Man
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.
Sept. 26, 1992, midnight
S6E16 - Sun and Shadow
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.
Oct. 3, 1992, midnight
S6E17 - Silent Towns
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.
Oct. 10, 1992, midnight
S6E18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
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.
Oct. 17, 1992, midnight
S6E19 - Some Live Like Lazarus
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.
Oct. 24, 1992, midnight
S6E20 - The Handler
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Oct. 27, 1992, midnight
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S6E21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
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.
Oct. 28, 1992, midnight
S6E22 - Great Wide World Over There
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.
Oct. 29, 1992, midnight
S6E23 - The Tombstone
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.
Oct. 30, 1992, midnight
Network: HBO
Episode Runtime: 24 min.
Season Runtime: 1580 min.
Released: May 21, 1985
Last Air Date: Oct. 30, 1992, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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