The Ray Bradbury Theater Episode Guide (continued)
Compiled by Loren Heisey
(lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com)
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III. USA second production
Introduction by Ray Bradbury
"People ask where do you get your ideas. Well right here. All
this is my. I'll never starve here. I'm Ray Bradbury, and this
is" The Ray Bradbury Theater.
19 The Dwarf
The dreams of a dwarf turn into a showman's nightmare.
Additional introduction
"When I was 12 I met a magician Harry Blackstone who told me to
live forever. I decided I could. Mr. Blackstone introduced me to
clowns, acrobats, fire eaters, fat ladies, and some little
people, dwarves. I've never forgotten. Every time I see certain
kinds of strange mirrors, this is what I see."
Starring
Megan Follows Aimee
With
Miguel Fernandes Ralph Banghart
And
Machs Colombani Mr. Bigelow
Director
Costa Botes
Co-starring
David Cameron Magazine Vendor
20 A Miracle of Rare Device
A mean-spirited man may ruin a desert mirage.
Additional introduction
"When I was a boy my dad looking for work picked up my mom, my
brother Skip, and myself, and headed west. Along the way in the
middle of nowhere-what-so-ever-at-all on a hot summer desert noon
with the wind still and heat rising from the sand dunes, we were
witness to a miracle. Years later I remembered the miracle. This,
is that remembrance."
Starring
Pat Harrington Jr. Robert
With
Wayne Robson William
Director
Roger Tompkins
Co-starring
William Kircher Ned Bantlin
Des Kelly Old Man
Barbara Laurenson Old Woman
Helen Jarroe Woman
Ben Vere-Jones Young Man
Roy Wesney Old Man #2
Stephen Lovatt Xanadu Young Man
Peter Dennett Farmer
Annie Ruth Farmer's Wife
Baden Campbell Farmer's Son
Sarah McLaughlin Farmer's Daughter
21 The Lake
A young man returns to the lake where he had a childhood
sweetheart a number of years before.
Additional introduction
"The long hot summers of childhood surround me in photos taken
along the shores of Lake Michigan. Looking at them many years ago
I remembered when I built impossible cities out of sand and
discovered that the lake could be a sorrow as well as a joy. When
I finished writing this story at the age 22 I was in tears, and
knew that at last I had become a writer."
Starring
Gordon Thomson Douglas
With
Eli Sharplin Young Douglas
Jessica Billingsley Young Tally
And
Sylvia Rands Tally's Mother
Prue Langbein Douglas' Mother
Tina Regtien Margaret
Director
Pat Robins
Co-starring
Jim Moriarty Lifeguard
22 The Wind
A man is pursued by the violent winds whose secret he has
learned.
Additional introduction
"Clocks, hourglasses, barometers. Who has not lain on his back
and wondered where the weather was born, and how it traveled, and
why along the way it sometimes ate people alive. And then again
late nights doesn't the wind outside your house scratch at your
screen like a cat needing to be fed. And what then. Do you let
the wind in, and what happens if you do."
Starring
Michael Sarrazin John Colt
With
Ray Henwood Herb Thompson
Director
Grahame McLean
Co-starring
Vivienne Labone Susan Thompson
Keith Richardson Keith Parkinson
Anne Pacey Anne Parkinson
23 The Pedestrian
In the world of the future, a man's nighttime walks are
considered deviant behavior.
Additional introduction
"Tennis shoes, to remind me of what. The first nights of summer
when as a boy I ran in the cool grass, or later walking at night
being stopped by police who were suspicious of the only one
walking for miles and miles. Upset with this encounter with the
law what else could I do but write about shoes, and night, and
walking as a criminal in some future year in a story called The
Pedestrian."
Starring
David Ogden Stiers Leonard Mead
With
Grant Tilly Stockwell
Director
Alin Bollinger
Co-starring
Stig Eldred Voice (Out of View)
Matt Murphy Man on Television
24 A Sound of Thunder
A man who has hunted all the animals on earth travels back in
time to bag a dinosaur.
Additional introduction
"Dinosaurs large and small fill my junkyard workroom. This one
given to me by a friend 30 years ago. These given as toys to my
daughters, and when they didn't play with them I simply took them
back. So with dinosaurs coming into my life, I often wondered
what would happen if I could go back into theirs. Dinosaurs, time
machines, put them together and you have a tale 1 billion years
old."
Starring
Kiel Martin Eckles
With
John Bach Travis
Director
Costa Botes
Co-starring
Micheal McLeod Agent
Micheal Batley Hunter
John McDavitt Hunter
25 The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
A famous writer dies under mysterious circumstances.
Additional introduction
"I'm surrounded by file after file of ideas, stories, poems, and
fragments of novels put away over some 40 years. I go through
them constantly and whichever story, poem, or play cries the
loudest to be born gets written. But I've often wondered, if
someone said to me your stories or your life would I save my life
or my stories. And so the The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone was
born."
Starring
John Saxon Dudley Stone
With
Alan Scarfe John Oatis Kendall
Director
David Copeland
Co-starring
Susan Wilson Sara Stone
Lewis Rowe Dudley Stone's Publisher
26 The Haunting of the New
A man receives a phone call late at night telling him he can have
a stately mansion, if it wants him.
Additional introduction
"This is a postcard from a friend overseas which caused me to
write The Haunting of the New. A postcard not a stumped lion, or
a robot dinosaur, or a toy xylophone, but an airmail postcard,
yes. Because it told about an old house in a far place on a
strange night. A house that died and came alive again and here is
how it happened."
Starring
Susannah Yorke Nora
With
Richard Comar Charles
Director
Roger Tompkins
Co-starring
Sheila Hammond Duchess
27 To the Chicago Abyss
In the future a man tells stories of how things used to be.
Additional introduction
"I have what seems to be total recall from the moment of my
birth, but if it should falter the toys, the trivia that surround
me in my workroom help me remember back 60 years. But what if I
lost all these in a fire? Then I'd be forced to rely on sheer
memory alone. But what about everyone else? Would they choose to
remember or prefer to forget? Would my memories be a threat to
them? To find the answer I wrote To the Chicago Abyss."
Starring
Harold Gould Old Man
With
Neil Munro The Stranger
Director
Randy Bradshaw
Co-starring
Doreen Ibsen Woman in Park
Arne MacPherson Young Man in Park
Linda Ravinovitch Stanger's Wife
Bill Meilen The Policeman
Ronald Rault The Betrayer
Chad Krowchuk Joseph
28 Hail and Farewell
A 12 year old boy has problems growing up.
Additional introduction
"Here lie my first magic sets given to me when I was 10 years old
when I thought by magic I could control the world around me. My
parents gave me sweaters and socks for Christmas. I rebeled, I
wanted to stay young, a kid with a magic set forever. I wish
somehow I could smoke the proper cigars to stunt my growth. Out
of those Christmases and my secret desire to scrunch down and be
10 years old forever the story that follows was born."
Starring
Josh Saviano Willie
Director
Alan Kroeker
Co-starring
Georgie Collins Old Woman
Trevor McCarthy The Bully
Mary Day Charlotte
Christine McInnis Charlotte's Mother
Judith Haynes Emma Webley
Frank C. Turner John Webley
Mark Parr Tiny Tim
Frank Bueckert Ice Cream Man
Ann Allen Little Woman
Chad Cole Big Kid, Orphanage
Joel Dacks 2nd Kid, Orphanage
Donovan Workun Bully's Sidekick
29 The Veldt
Two spoiled children use the power of their magical nursery to
rebel against their parents.
Additional introduction
"Africa, lions, and the great modern safari explorers have been
part of my life in or out of films or circus arenas or librarys.
Here in my workroom motion picture television machines and hot
african veldt lens join and come alive. What was Popular
Mechanics fancy when I was 9 can be built today or written out in
a few hours to be let loose from my typewriter as a story called
The Veldt."
Starring
Linda Kelsey Lydia Hadley
With
Malcolm Stewart George Hadley
Thomas Peacocke David McLean
Director
Brad Turner
Co-starring
Damien Atkins Peter Hadley
Shana Alexander Wendy Hadley
Del Mehes Mechanical Voice
30 Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!
There are many wondrous things that small boys can order from
mail order catalogs.
Additional introduction
"This is my copy of the Johnson Smith, Racine, Wisconsin catalog.
Every boy in America at one time had one. You sent away for
jokes, surprises, funny faces, whoopee cushions, and magical
illusions. I sent away for my first Johnson Smith catalog when I
was 10 because I heard you could buy things, strange things that
you dumped in water or planted in your window box that grew, and
grew, and grew."
Starring
Charles Martin Smith Huge Fortnum
Director
David Brandes
Co-starring
Marc Reid Tom Fortnum
Patricia Phillips Cynthia Fortnum
Judy Mahbey Mrs. Goodbody
Frank C. Turner Roger Willis
Dorothy Anne Haug Dorothy Willis
Michael Leskow Joe Willis
David Mann Mailman
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