ORBzine - Ray Bradbury Theater TV Review

Season 1

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 1, Episode 1] Marionettes, Inc.
Shown 21 May 85

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 1, Episode 2] The Playground
Shown 04 Jun 85

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 1, Episode 3] The Crowd
Shown 02 Jul 85

Nick Mancuso is in a car crash. He gets surrounded by a strange crowd.

Season 2

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 2, Episode 1] The Town Where No One Got Off
Shown 22 Feb 86

Cogswell (Jeff Goldblum - The Fly ) is on a train.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 2, Episode 2] The Screaming Woman
Shown 22 Feb 86

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 2, Episode 3] Banshee
Shown 22 Feb 86

Season 3

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 1] The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl
Shown 23 Jan 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 2] Skeleton
Shown 06 Feb 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 3] The Emissary
Shown 13 Feb 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 4] Gotcha!
Shown 20 Feb 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 5] The Man Upstairs
Shown 05 Mar 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 6] The Small Assassin
Shown 09 Apr 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 7] Punishment Without Crime
Shown 16 Apr 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 8] On the Orient, North
Shown 30 Apr 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 9] The Coffin
Shown 07 May 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 10] Tyrannosaurus Rex
Shown 14 May 88

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 11] There Was An Old Woman
Shown 21 May 88

Roy Kinnear plays an undertaker who takes the body of an old woman who has a face like a crumpled piece of paper.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 3, Episode 12] And So Died Riabouchinska
Shown 28 May 88

This concerns a murder investigation in a small theatre troupe, where the answers are held by a ventriloquist's dummy.

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Season 4

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 1] The Dwarf
Shown 07 Jul 89

Megan Flowers plays a woman who falls for a dwarf.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 2] A Miracle of Rare Device
Shown 14 Jul 89

This looks like it was filmed in the Oz outback.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 3] The Lake
Shown 21 Jul 89

Michael Praed ( Robin of Sherwood ) takes his new bride to his childhood holiday home. He has a flashback to the tragic events there when he was a boy ...

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 4] The Wind
Shown 28 Jul 89

Michael Sarazzin ( Frankenstein ) is a meteorologist, studying The Wind.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 5] The Pedestrian
Shown 04 Aug 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 6] A Sound of Thunder
Shown 11 Aug 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 7] The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Shown 18 Aug 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 8] The Haunting of the New
Shown 15 Sep 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 9] To the Chicago Abyss
Shown 22 Sep 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 10] Hail and Farewell
Shown 29 Sep 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 11] The Veldt
Shown 10 Nov 89

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 4, Episode 12] Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Shown 17 Nov 89

Season 5

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 1] Mars is Heaven
Shown 20 Jul 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 2] The Murderer
Shown 27 Jul 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 3] Touched with Fire
Shown 03 Aug 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 4] The Black Ferris
Shown 10 Aug 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 5] Usher II
Shown 17 Aug 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 6] Touch of Petulance
Shown 12 Oct 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 7] And The Moon Be Still As Bright
Shown 19 Oct 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 8] The Toynbee Convector
Shown 26 Oct 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 9] Exorcism
Shown 02 Nov 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 10] The Day It Rained Forever
Shown 09 Nov 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 11] The Long Years
Shown 16 Nov 90

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 5, Episode 12] Here There Be Tygers
Shown 30 Nov 90

Season 6

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 1] The Earthmen
Shown 03 Jan 92

This is about four astronauts who are on the third manned mission to Mars. Their mission is to discover what happened to the first two missions.

They discover that there is intelligent life on Mars. Differently sane life, perhaps, but definitely intelligent. The Martians are English-speaking humans with their skin painted silver. They are psychic, and extremely illogical. The most important one is played by Gordon Pinsent Jnr (Fraser Snr from Due South ).

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 2] Zero Hour
Shown 10 Jan 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 3] The Jar
Shown 17 Jan 92

A redneck goes to a funfair carnival, and buys a jar with a strange ... thing floating in it. He takes it home and shows it to his friends, but his cheating wife mocks him ...

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 4] Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Shown 24 Jan 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 5] The Concrete Mixer
Shown 31 Jan 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 6] The Utterly Perfect Murder
Shown 07 Feb 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 7] Let's Play Poison
Shown 14 Jan 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 8] The Martian
Shown 21 Feb 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 9] The Lonely One
Shown 10 Jul 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 10] The Happiness Machine
Shown 17 Jul 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 11] Tomorrow's Child
Shown 14 Aug 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 12] The Handler
Shown 19 Aug 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 13] Great Wide World Over There
Shown 20 Aug 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 14] Fee Fie Foe Fum
Shown 21 Aug 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 15] The Anthem Sprinters
Shown 21 Aug 92

An American novelist is in Dublin in the 1950s. Everyone is over-the-top Oirish, begorrah!

The locals challenge the Yank to the local sport of Anthem-sprinting. The treasures at stake in the wager are some local Dublin literature items - a James Joyce First Edition and a Sean O'Casey signed playbill.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 16] By the Numbers
Shown 11 Sep 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 17] The Long Rain
Shown 19 Sep 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 18] The Dead Man
Shown 26 Sep 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 19] Sun and Shadow
Shown 03 Oct 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 20] Silent Towns
Shown 10 Oct 92

Young John Glover ( Smallville ) is marooned on Terraformed Mars. The place has been evacuated back to Earth. Then, like in The Omega Man , the phones start ringing!

The 1980s version of Mars looks like the US Midwest with corrugated iron cars. Also, it has a chubby bunny-boiler.

This is one of the episodes pulled from The Martian Chronicles (1979) , also based on a series of stories by Ray Bradbury. The moral of the story is very un-PC by modern standards.

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 21] Downwind from Gettysburg
Shown 17 Oct 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 22] Some Live Like Lazarus
Shown 24 Oct 92

Ray Bradbury Theater [Season 6, Episode 23] The Tombstone
Shown 30 Oct 92