The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater

Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

Director: Costa Botes

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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.

Director: Stuart Margolin

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

Director: Ralph L. Thomas

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Ray Bradbury

Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

Director: Brad Turner

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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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Writer: N/A

A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.

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A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.

Director: Don McBrearty

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

Director: Bruce McDonald

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

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Writer: Ray Bradbury

A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

Director: Costa Botes

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Ray Bradbury

When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.

Director: William Fruet

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

Director: Bruce Pittman

Writer: Ray Bradbury