The Ray Bradbury Theater
August 23, 2016 12:10 AM   Subscribe

All 65 episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater are available in full. (via boingboing) It ran on HBO 1985-1986 for two seasons and on the USA Network 1988-1992 for four more seasons. "All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury and many were based on short stories or novels he had written..." The DVD set is available on Amazon.
posted by cwest (10 comments total) 52 users marked this as a favorite
 
I thought this was where I would have seen the cinematic version of "All Summer in a Day" but it looks like this wasn't a part of it?
posted by ejs at 12:42 AM on August 23, 2016


"All Summer in a Day" was "originally broadcast on the PBS' children's series WonderWorks in 1982." Wonderworks (wiki). Wonderworks (tvguide). It is here. Or here.
posted by cwest at 2:21 AM on August 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


Holy crap!! The opening of the first episode reminds me a lot of "Garth Merenghi's Darkplace", which is a satire of those sorts of shows... the music, the opening narration, so so similar!

I recall watching the Ray Bradbury show in the 80s when I was in my mid-teens, and none of the episode ever really worked for me...I wonder if perhaps I'd appreciate them now. I'll have to check them out.
posted by newfers at 3:29 AM on August 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


I had a hard time watching them too newfers, when I was a kid, and I loved loved loved Ray Bradbury at the time. IIRC right, the series stars a lot of Canadian actors and it was mostly filmed in my hometown :)
posted by Calzephyr at 5:19 AM on August 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Awesome!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 7:06 AM on August 23, 2016


Didn't he hate doing this? I remember reading somewhere he had nothing but contempt for television.
posted by lumpenprole at 9:34 AM on August 23, 2016


Why is Canadian TV of this era so very very terrible? There must have been actors who could act and directors who could direct. Did every single one of them go to New York and Hollywood?
posted by Jode at 12:54 PM on August 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Jode, maybe it was a combination of brain drain and lack of facilities?
posted by Calzephyr at 4:36 PM on August 23, 2016


i actually bought a set of these once, I think from Ross (yep). As I recall they were a collossal disappointment. Badly produced, badly acted. Sad, really.
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 2:36 PM on August 24, 2016


Watching a few of them now. They're so Canadian and so '80s.
posted by octothorpe at 5:45 PM on August 27, 2016


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