The Ray Bradbury Theater

*The Ray Bradbury Theater*
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Created by	Ray Bradbury
Starring	Ray Bradbury, miscellaneous special guests
Theme music composer	John Massari
Country of origin	Canada; United States; New Zealand; France; Australia; United Kingdom
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	65 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	First Choice Superchannel / HBO (seasons 1); USA Network (seasons 2–6)
Release	May 21, 1985 –; October 30, 1992

The Ray Bradbury Theatre is an anthology series that ran for three seasons on

IMDb TV, Peacock, Pluto TV and The Roku Channel

.

All 65 episodes were written by

Mars is Heaven", "Usher II", "The Jar", "The Long Rain", "The Veldt", "The Small Assassin", "The Pedestrian", "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl", "Here There Be Tygers", "The Toynbee Convector", and "Sun and Shadow

".

Many of the episodes focused on only one of Bradbury's original works. However, Bradbury occasionally included elements from his other works. "Marionettes, Inc." featured Fantoccini, a character from "I Sing the Body Electric!". "Gotcha!" included an opening sequence taken from "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair". Characters were renamed, and elements added to the original works to expand the story to 23–28 minutes or to better suit the television medium.

Each episode would begin with a shot of Bradbury in his office,[3] gazing over mementos of his life, which he states (in narrative) are used to spark ideas for stories. During the first season, Bradbury sometimes appeared on-screen in brief vignettes introducing the story. During the second season, Bradbury provided the opening narration with no specific embellishment concerning the episode. During the third season, a foreshortened version of the narration was used and Bradbury would add specific comments relevant to the episode presented. During the fourth and later seasons, a slightly shorter generic narration was used with no additional comments.

Famous actors appearing in the series included