The Ray Bradbury Theater - Episode Guide

Episode List

Season 1

Marionettes, Inc.

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: May 21, 1985

The Playground

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1985

The Crowd

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 2, 1985

After a car crash, a photographer notices that a crowd of gawkers assembles in a matter of seconds. Checking other accidents, he discovers that the same crowd gathers at each accident in the city... and that they've all died in previously car crashes.

The Town Where No One Got Off

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1986

The Screaming Woman

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1986

Banshee

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1986

A offbeat film director frightens a visiting writer with larger than life ghost stories.

Season 2

The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1988

Skeleton

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1988

A man has issues with imaginary illnesses then seeks help when his bones start aching.

The Emissary

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1988

Gotcha!

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1988

A man meets a woman who's enthusiasm for fun and games seems endless and falls for her.

The Man Upstairs

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1988

The Small Assassin

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1988

Punishment Without Crime

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1988

On the Orient, North

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1988

The Coffin

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: May 7, 1988

A eccentric reclusive man who builds robots has to deal with a greedy brother who is a money grabbing leech.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: May 14, 1988

There Was An Old Woman

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: May 21, 1988

And So Died Riabouchinska

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: May 28, 1988

A ventriloquist and his female dummy are the main suspects in a murder case.

Season 3

The Dwarf

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1989

A carnival operator of a hall of mirrors makes fun of a little person who is a regular attendee of his attraction. He shows a young lady who runs a nearby attraction what he is doing and she follows the little person home out of curiosity about the man.

A Miracle of Rare Device

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1989

Two enterprising men find hope in a desert mirage while trying to evade their nemesis who keeps following them and stealing their discoveries.

The Lake

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1989

The Wind

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jul 28, 1989

The Pedestrian

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1989

A Sound of Thunder

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1989

A time travel agency offers a unique service: dinosaur hunts in the prehistoric era.

The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Aug 18, 1989

The Haunting of the New

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1989

To the Chicago Abyss

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1989

Hail and Farewell

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1989

The Veldt

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1989

Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1989

Season 4

Mars is Heaven

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1990

The Murderer

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1990

Touched with Fire

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Aug 3, 1990

On a scorching day, a pair of oldtimers decide to tail an irascible lady. One of them believs that the lady is about to be murdered because of the heat.

The Black Ferris

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1990

Usher II

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1990

In a future society, books of fantasy and horror have been banned. One man attempts to fight the authorities by creating an animatronic funhouse based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and invites his enemies to one last masquerade party.