The Ray Bradbury Theater

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Episode 1

The Earthmen

1992-01-03 · 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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E02

Episode 2

Zero Hour

1992-01-10 · 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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E03

Episode 3

The Jar

1992-01-17 · 23m

A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

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E04

Episode 4

Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

1992-01-24 · 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.

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E05

Episode 5

The Concrete Mixer

1992-01-31 · 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

1992-02-07 · 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

1992-02-14 · 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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E08

Episode 8

The Martian

1992-02-21 · 23m

A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

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Episode 9

The Lonely One

1992-07-10 · 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.

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Episode 10

The Happiness Machine

1992-07-17 · 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.

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Episode 11

Tomorrow's Child

1992-08-14 · 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.

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E12

Episode 12

The Anthem Sprinters

1992-08-21 · 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.

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E13

Episode 13

By the Numbers

1992-09-11 · 23m

The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

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E14

Episode 14

The Long Rain

1992-09-19 · 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.

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Episode 15

The Dead Man

1992-09-26 · 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.

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E16

Episode 16

Sun and Shadow

1992-10-03 · 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.

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E17

Episode 17

Silent Towns

1992-10-10 · 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.

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E18

Episode 18

Downwind from Gettysburg

1992-10-17 · 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.

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E19

Episode 19

Some Live Like Lazarus

1992-10-24 · 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.

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E20

Episode 20

The Handler

1992-10-27 · 22m

A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

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Episode 21

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Fee Fie Foe Fum

1992-10-28 · 23m

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.

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E22

Episode 22

Great Wide World Over There

1992-10-29 · 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.

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Episode 23

The Tombstone

1992-10-30 · 23m

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.

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