The Ray Bradbury Theater

Season 4

1989 · 12 episodes · 4h 48m in all · 8.0/10

Episodes

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   1. The Dwarf

   7 Jul 1989 · 24 min · 8.0/10

   A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

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   2. A Miracle of Rare Device

   14 Jul 1989 · 24 min

   Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

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   3. The Lake

   21 Jul 1989 · 24 min

   An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.

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   4. The Wind

   28 Jul 1989 · 24 min

   After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.

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   5. The Pedestrian

   4 Aug 1989 · 24 min

   A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

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   6. A Sound of Thunder

   11 Aug 1989 · 24 min

   Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

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   7. The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

   18 Aug 1989 · 24 min

   When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

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   8. The Haunting of the New

   15 Sept 1989 · 24 min

   A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

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   9. To the Chicago Abyss

   22 Sept 1989 · 24 min

   In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.

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    10. Hail and Farewell

    29 Sept 1989 · 24 min

    Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.

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    11. The Veldt

    10 Nov 1989 · 24 min

    Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

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    12. Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

    17 Nov 1989 · 24 min

    A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.