The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Episode 1 - The Earthmen
Release Date: 1992-01-03A 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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Episode 2 - Zero Hour
Release Date: 1992-01-10In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
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Episode 3 - The Jar
Release Date: 1992-01-17A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
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Episode 4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Release Date: 1992-01-24A 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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Episode 5 - The Concrete Mixer
Release Date: 1992-01-31A 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
Release Date: 1992-02-07As 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
Release Date: 1992-02-14After 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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Episode 8 - The Martian
Release Date: 1992-02-21A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
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Episode 9 - The Lonely One
Release Date: 1992-07-10After 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
Release Date: 1992-07-17A 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
Release Date: 1992-08-14An 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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Episode 12 - The Anthem Sprinters
Release Date: 1992-08-21An 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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Episode 13 - By the Numbers
Release Date: 1992-09-11The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
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Episode 14 - The Long Rain
Release Date: 1992-09-19When 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
Release Date: 1992-09-26A 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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Episode 16 - Sun and Shadow
Release Date: 1992-10-03An 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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Episode 17 - Silent Towns
Release Date: 1992-10-10A 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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Episode 18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
Release Date: 1992-10-17Walter 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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Episode 19 - Some Live Like Lazarus
Release Date: 1992-10-24A 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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Episode 20 - The Handler
Release Date: 1992-10-27A 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 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
Release Date: 1992-10-28A 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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Episode 22 - Great Wide World Over There
Release Date: 1992-10-29Cora 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
Release Date: 1992-10-30A 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.