Zero Hour

January 10, 1992

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The Ray Bradbury Theater - S6 - E2

In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

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The Ray Bradbury Theater: Season 6 - 23 Episode s

6x1 - The Earthmen
January 3, 1992
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.
6x2 - Zero Hour
January 10, 1992
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
6x3 - The Jar
January 17, 1992
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
6x4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
January 24, 1992
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
6x5 - The Concrete Mixer
January 31, 1992
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
6x6 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
February 7, 1992
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 and getting his revenge.
6x7 - Let's Play Poison
February 14, 1992
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.
6x8 - The Martian
February 21, 1992
A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
6x9 - The Lonely One
July 10, 1992
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 result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.
6x10 - The Happiness Machine
July 17, 1992
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.
6x11 - Tomorrow's Child
August 14, 1992
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 threatens to send the wife into madness.
6x12 - The Anthem Sprinters
August 21, 1992
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 compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.
6x13 - By the Numbers
September 11, 1992
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
6x14 - The Long Rain
September 19, 1992
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 shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.
6x15 - The Dead Man
September 26, 1992
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.
6x16 - Sun and Shadow
October 3, 1992
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 colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.
6x17 - Silent Towns
October 10, 1992
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 not what he was expecting.
6x18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
October 17, 1992
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 unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.
6x19 - Some Live Like Lazarus
October 24, 1992
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.
6x20 - The Handler
October 27, 1992
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
6x21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
October 28, 1992
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.
6x22 - Great Wide World Over There
October 29, 1992
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 with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.
6x23 - The Tombstone
October 30, 1992
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 is now convinced the room is haunted.

Zero Hour

The Ray Bradbury Theater - S6 - E2

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Season 6 - 23 Episode s

6x1 - The Earthmen

6x2 - Zero Hour

6x3 - The Jar

6x4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

6x5 - The Concrete Mixer

6x6 - The Utterly Perfect Murder

6x7 - Let's Play Poison

6x8 - The Martian

6x9 - The Lonely One

6x10 - The Happiness Machine

6x11 - Tomorrow's Child

6x12 - The Anthem Sprinters

6x13 - By the Numbers

6x14 - The Long Rain

6x15 - The Dead Man

6x16 - Sun and Shadow

6x17 - Silent Towns

6x18 - Downwind from Gettysburg

6x19 - Some Live Like Lazarus

6x20 - The Handler

6x21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

6x22 - Great Wide World Over There

6x23 - The Tombstone

The Ray Bradbury Theater: All seasons

S1: Season 1

S2: Season 2

S3: Season 3

S4: Season 4

S5: Season 5

S6: Season 6