The Ray Bradbury Theater: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Dwarf
Jul 7, 1989
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.
A Miracle of Rare Device
Jul 14, 1989
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.
The Lake
Jul 21, 1989
An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.
The Pedestrian
Aug 4, 1989
A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.
A Sound of Thunder
Aug 11, 1989
Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.
The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Aug 18, 1989
When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.
The Haunting of the New
Sep 15, 1989
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.
To the Chicago Abyss
Sep 22, 1989
In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
Hail and Farewell
Sep 29, 1989
Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to lea
The Veldt
Nov 10, 1989
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.
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Nov 17, 1989
A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.