Season 5

12 EPISODES • 1990

Season 5 of The Ray Bradbury Theater was released on July 20 and consists of 12 episodes.

Episodes

1: Mars Is Heaven

Jul 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

Jul 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

Aug 3, 1990

Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

4: The Black Ferris

Aug 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

Aug 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

Oct 12, 1990

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

7: And the Moon Be Still as Bright

Oct 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

Oct 26, 1990

A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

9: Exorcism

Nov 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

Nov 9, 1990

In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

11: The Long Years

Nov 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

Nov 30, 1990

Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

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