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This is an update of the short version of The Ray Bradbury Theater episode
guide. I will not update the expanded guide for a bit yet but it is on
ftp.coe.montana.edu in pub/TV/Guides/Bradbury if anyone is interested.
If there is still a corrupt tar file in that directory a fixed one should
be in the /tmp directory.

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The Ray Bradbury Theater

Show type: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Episode guide revision date:  8-22-92

Notes:

     The HBO episodes are listed in the order first shown on USA.
     Synopses come from various TV guides and my own input.

HBO produced episodes

 1 - Banshee
     An offbeat film director frightens a writer with larger-than-life
     ghost stories.
 2 - Marionettes, Inc.
     A nagging wife prompts a computer salesman to take desperate
     measures.
 3 - The Screaming Woman
     A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming voice.
 4 - The Town Where No One Got Off
     A city resident's idealistic view of rural life is shattered when
     a train drops him off at an unscheduled stop.
 5 - The Playground
     An insurance salesman has an uneasy feeling about the children at
     a local playground.
 6 - The Crowd
     A neon-sign artist believes the people gaping at an auto accident
     might be otherworldly.
 
USA first production

 7 - The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl     1/23/88
     A careless murderer contemplates his crime.
 8 - Skeleton     2/06/88
     A hypochondriac seeks the help of a bone specialist to cure his
     latest ailment.
 9 - The Emissary     2/13/88
     A lonely, bedridden boy sends out his dog to find him a companion.
10 - Gotcha!     2/20/88
     A playful couple plan a romantic weekend getaway.
11 - The Man Upstairs     3/05/88
     A boarder with strange hobbies keeps little Douglas up at night.
12 - The Small Assassin     4/09/88
     A woman lives in terror of her new born child.
13 - Punishment Without Crime     4/16/88
     A man has a robot created to look just like his hated wife. His
     plan is to kill the robot, but he falls in love instead.
14 - On the Orient, North     4/29/88
     A nurse aids an ailing ghost on a transcontinental train trip and
     escorts him to his final destination.
15 - The Coffin     5/07/88
     An aging inventor builds a custom made coffin as his final
     creation.
16 - Tyrannosaurus Rex     5/14/88
     A film animator sculpts a monster for a tyrannical movie director's
     latest project.
17 - There Was an Old Woman     5/21/88
     Elderly Matilda isn't ready when death arrives to carry her away in
     a wicker basket.
18 - And So Died Riabouchinska     5/28/88
     An outspoken marionette provides clues to a murder when a detective
     interrogates a ventriloquist.

USA second production

19 - The Dwarf     7/07/89
     The dreams of a dwarf turn into a showman's nightmare.
20 - A Miracle of Rare Device     7/14/89
     A mean-spirited man may ruin a desert mirage.
21 - The Lake     7/21/89
     A young man returns to the lake where he had a childhood sweetheart
     a number of years before.
22 - The Wind     7/28/89
     A man is pursued by the violent winds whose secret he has learned.
23 - The Pedestrian     8/04/89
     In the world of the future, a man's nighttime walks are
     considered deviant behavior.
24 - A Sound of Thunder     8/11/89
     A man who has hunted all the animals on earth travels back in time
     to bag a dinosaur.
25 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone     8/18/89
     A famous writer dies under mysterious circumstances.
26 - The Haunting of the New     9/15/89
     A man receives a phone call late at night telling him he can have
     a stately mansion, if it wants him.
27 - To the Chicago Abyss     9/22/89
     In the future a man tells stories of how things used to be.
28 - Hail and Farewell     9/30/89
     A 12 year old boy has problems growing up.
29 - The Veldt    11/10/89
     Two spoiled children use the power of their magical nursery to
     rebel against their parents.
30 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!    11/17/89
     There are many wondrous things that small boys can order from mail
     order catalogs.

USA third production

31 - Mars Is Heaven     7/20/90
     The first Earth visitors to Mars discover a replica of small town
     America.
32 - The Murderer     7/27/90
     Arthur Brock sounds off against noise, leading him to violence -
     and a cell in the psychiatric ward.
33 - Touched With Fire     8/03/90
     Two men try to prevent a murder.
34 - The Black Ferris     8/10/90
     Two friends think there's a connection when a carnival brings an
     old man and a young boy to town.
35 - Usher II     8/17/90
     A man rebels when the government bans imagination.
36 - Touch of Petulance    10/12/90
     A man's life is altered by a newspaper headline from the future.
37 - And the Moon Be Still As Bright    10/19/90
     Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems
     when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planets former
     residents.
38 - The Toynbee Convector    10/26/90
     A man time travels to the past to perfect the future.
39 - Exorcism    11/02/90
     A woman makes a potion to get rid of a witch.
40 - The Day it Rained Forever    11/09/90
     A free spirit and her music bring rain to a drought-stricken town.
41 - The Long Years    11/16/90
     A space crew returns to Mars to find a scientist and his family
     unaffected by their 20-year stay on the planet.
42 - Here There Be Tygers    11/30/90
     Unbeknown to an explorer, the Utopia like world he has discovered
     has yet to unearth its deadly forces.
 
USA fourth production

43 - The Earthmen     1/03/92
     Members of an expedition to Mars find their intellect questioned
     by the locals.
44 - Zero Hour     1/10/92
     A group of 8-year-olds rally around an invisible person who promises
     them the world.
45 - The Jar     1/17/92
     A backwoods man impresses the townfolk with a mysterious jar.
46 - Colonel Stonesteel and the "Desperate Empties"     1/24/92
     What seems to be a relic from ancient Egypt turns up on a Midwest
     farm.
47 - The Concrete Mixer     1/31/92
     A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in
     his alien comic books.
48 - The Utterly Perfect Murder     2/07/92
     A childhood bully still haunts a 60-year-old man.
49 - Let's Play Poison     2/14/92
     A perfectionist teacher leads an unworldly bunch of kids.
50 - The Martian     2/21/92
     New life welcomes grieving parents who move to mars.

51 - The Lonely One     7/10/92 
     A Woman decides to walk home alone in a town plagued by a serial
     killer.
52 - The Happiness Machine     7/17/92
     A man invents a "happiness machine."
53 - Tomorrow's Child     8/14/92
     Broken birthing equipment results in a child's being born with
     geometric features.
54 - The Anthem Sprinters     8/21/92
     An American traveler in Ireland gets caught up in a local "sporting
     event."
55 - Great Wide World Over There
     A woman living in an isolated part of the country has a neighbor
     who is always getting letters while she never receives any. Since
     the woman is illiterate she has her visiting educated nephew write
     some letters for her so she can get mail like her neighbor.
56 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
     A mother lives in fear of her free-loading son-in-law who she thinks
     is after her money and her house. Although her daughter tries to
     reassure her, the mother's fears are increased after the son-in-law
     installs a supercharged new garbage disposal in the house where the
     three of them live.


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