The Ray Bradbury Theater: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
The Earthmen
Jan 3, 1992 · 23 min
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
Zero Hour
Jan 10, 1992 · 23 min
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
The Jar
Jan 17, 1992 · 23 min
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Jan 24, 1992 · 23 min
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
The Concrete Mixer
Jan 31, 1992 · 23 min
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
The Utterly Perfect Murder
Feb 7, 1992 · 23 min
As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown an
Let's Play Poison
Feb 14, 1992 · 23 min
After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.
The Lonely One
Jul 10, 1992 · 23 min
After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy.
The Happiness Machine
Jul 17, 1992 · 24 min
A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.
Tomorrow's Child
Aug 14, 1992 · 23 min
An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and thre
The Anthem Sprinters
Aug 21, 1992 · 24 min
An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners co
By the Numbers
Sep 11, 1992 · 23 min
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
The Long Rain
Sep 19, 1992 · 24 min
When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only sh
The Dead Man
Sep 26, 1992 · 24 min
A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.
Sun and Shadow
Oct 3, 1992 · 23 min
An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorfu
Silent Towns
Oct 10, 1992 · 23 min
A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is
Downwind from Gettysburg
Oct 17, 1992 · 23 min
Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its
Some Live Like Lazarus
Oct 24, 1992 · 23 min
A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.
The Handler
Oct 27, 1992 · 22 min
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Fee Fie Foe Fum
Oct 28, 1992 · 23 min
A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.
Great Wide World Over There
Oct 29, 1992 · 23 min
Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect
The Tombstone
Oct 30, 1992 · 23 min
A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife