The Ray Bradbury Theater: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
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 Mid
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 env
Touched with Fire
Aug 3, 1990
Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
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 wid
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.
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.
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.
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 Clar
The Day It Rained Forever
Nov 9, 1990
In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.
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, b
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.