The Ray Bradbury Theater

Season 5

1990 · 12 episodes · 4h 36m in all

Episodes

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   1. Mars Is Heaven

   20 Jul 1990 · 23 min

   As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

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   2. The Murderer

   27 Jul 1990 · 23 min

   Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.

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   3. Touched with Fire

   3 Aug 1990 · 23 min

   Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

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   4. The Black Ferris

   10 Aug 1990 · 23 min

   Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.

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   5. Usher II

   17 Aug 1990 · 23 min

   When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe... and plots revenge.

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   6. Touch of Petulance

   12 Oct 1990 · 23 min

   A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

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   7. And the Moon Be Still as Bright

   19 Oct 1990 · 23 min

   Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

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   8. The Toynbee Convector

   26 Oct 1990 · 23 min

   A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

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   9. Exorcism

   2 Nov 1990 · 23 min

   The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.

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    10. The Day It Rained Forever

    9 Nov 1990 · 23 min

    In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

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    11. The Long Years

    16 Nov 1990 · 23 min

    A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.

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    12. Here There Be Tygers

    30 Nov 1990 · 23 min

    Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.