The Ray Bradbury Theater
Season 5
1990 • 12 Episodes
Episodes
1. Mars Is Heaven
July 20, 1990
As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.
2. The Murderer
July 27, 1990
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.
3. Touched with Fire
August 3, 1990
Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
4. The Black Ferris
August 10, 1990
Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.
5. Usher II
August 17, 1990
When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe... and plots revenge.
6. Touch of Petulance
October 12, 1990
A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.
7. And the Moon Be Still as Bright
October 19, 1990
Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.
8. The Toynbee Convector
October 26, 1990
A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.
9. Exorcism
November 2, 1990
The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.
10. The Day It Rained Forever
November 9, 1990
In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.
11. The Long Years
November 16, 1990
A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.
12. Here There Be Tygers
November 30, 1990
Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.