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The Ray Bradbury Theater Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Marionettes, Inc.

First aired: May/21/1985
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: James Coco (Braling (John Raleigh Braling)), Leslie Nielsen (Fantoccini), Jayne Eastwood (Mrs. Braling (Marjorie Braling)), Kenneth Welsh (Crane), Pixie Bigelow (Buyer), Rex Hagon (Buyer), Michael Fletcher (Buyer), Laura Henry (Secretary), Tom Christopher (The Other Braling)

A man receives cryptic messages and is offered the opportunity to buy a robot replica of himself to take his place while he lives the life he always dreamed.



2 :01x02 - The Playground

First aired: Jun/04/1985
Director: William Fruet
Guest star: William Shatner (Charles Underhill), Keith Dutson (Steve), Kate Trotter (Carol), Mirko Malish (Ralph), Steven Andrade (Charlie), Barry Flatman (Robert Peerless)

A man is disturbed when he sees a face from the past. As a child, he was bullied by this person and is worried his son may suffer the same torment on a neighborhood playground.



3 :01x03 - The Crowd

First aired: Jul/02/1985
Director: Ralph Thomas
Guest star: Nick Mancuso (Joe Spelliner), R. H. Thomson (Morgan), David Hughes (Doctor), Victor Eartmantis (Paramedic)

A man in a car accident remembers the crowd that gathered around, seemingly sucking away his breath. Later, he sees the same people at another car crash... and another... and another, and resolves to learn their secret.



4 :02x01 - The Town Where No One Got Off

First aired: Feb/22/1986
Director: Don McBrearty
Guest star: Jeff Goldblum (Cogswheel), Ed McNamara (Old Man), Cec Linder (Salesman), Errol Slue (Conductor), Clare Coulter (Store Owner), Samantha Langevin (Mother), Rachel Gemmell (Girl on Swing), Wayne Robson (Man in Store), Ward Kimball (Trainmaster), Ray Bradbury (Himself)

After lauding the virtues of rural life while traveling on a train, a writer impulsively decides to get off at a small town... and discover that he's the target of an obsessed old man.



5 :02x02 - The Screaming Woman

First aired: Feb/22/1986
Director: Bruce Pittman
Guest star: Drew Barrymore (Heather Leary), Janet-Laine Green (Mrs. Leary), Roger Dunn (Mr. Leary), Alan Scarfe (Mr. Nesbitt (Charlie Nesbitt)), Ian Heath (Dippy), Ken James (Mr. Kelly), Jacqueline McLeod (Ms. Kelly), Michael Copeman (Policeman), Mary Anne Coles (Screaming Woman), Fran Gebhard (Neighbour), Dick Callahan (Worker), Clarke Gordon (Dowser (as Clark Gordon)), Ray Bradbury (Himself)

A girl hears a woman screaming from a spot deep in the woods, but is unable to convince anyone that she's telling the truth.



6 :02x03 - Banshee

First aired: Feb/22/1986
Director: Douglas Robert Jackson
Guest star: Peter O'Toole (John Hampton), Charles Martin Smith (Douglas Rogers), Jennifer Dale (The Banshee), Redmond Gleeson (Bartender), Wendy Wilcox (Sprite), Ray Bradbury (Himself), Michael Copeman (Taxi Driver)

A famous director attempts to play a series of pranks on an aspiring screenwriter, only to have one backfire on him when he attempts to convince his visitor that a Banshee lurks in the forest.



7 :03x01 - The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl

First aired: Jan/23/1988
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Guest star: Michael Ironside (Acton), Sonja Smits (Mary), Robert Vaughn (Huxley), Barry Greene (Gun Salesman), Wally Bondarenko (Detective), Tom Harvey (Doctor)

A frustrated writer who killed the publisher who rejected him desperately tries to eliminate all evidence of his presence.



8 :03x02 - Skeleton

First aired: Feb/06/1988
Director: Steve DiMarco
Guest star: Eugene Levy (Bert Harris), Diane D'Aquila (Clarisse), Peter Blais (Munigant), Sean Hewitt (Dr. Burleigh), Thick Wilson (Fat Man)

When a hypochondriac becomes obsessed with his skeleton, he finds a most unusual specialist who offers him an extraordinary cure.



9 :03x03 - The Emissary

First aired: Feb/13/1988
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Guest star: Helen Shaver (Miss Haight), Keram Malicki-Sanchez (Martin (Martin Bailey)), Linda Goranson (Mother), Neil Munro (Father), Eric Hebert (Big Boy), Stuart Kenny (Neighbour (Mr. Tarkin)), Chubby (Dog)

A bed-ridden young boy's only two friends are his teacher... and the dog that will do anything to make sure the boy has human company.



10 :03x04 - Gotcha!

First aired: Feb/20/1988
Director: Brad Turner
Guest star: Saul Rubinek (John Griffiths), Kate Lynch (Alicia Hart), James Kidnie (Hotel Clerk), Olwyn Chipman (Party Person #1), Sharolyn Sparrow (Party Person #2), Michael Healy (Stockbroker (Bear)), Adrian Paul (Stockbroker (Bozo))

A Laurel & Hardy fan meets his soulmate... but discovers she plays a horrifying game named "Gotcha!"



11 :03x05 - The Man Upstairs

First aired: Mar/05/1988
Director: Alain Bonnot
Guest star: Feodor Atkine (Mr. Koberman), Micheline Presle (Grandma (Marguerite)), Kate Hardie (Miss Treadwell (Emmy)), Adam Negley (Douglas (Introducing)), Henri Poirier (Mr. Dumas), Michel Winogradoff (Police Officer), Bertie Cortez (Coroner)

A young boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer comes to believe that a new boarder is a vampire.



12 :03x06 - The Small Assassin

First aired: Apr/09/1988
Director: Tom Cotter
Guest star: Susan Wooldridge (Alice Leiber), Leigh Lawson (David Leiber), Cyril Cusack (Dr. Jeffers), Lottie Ward (Nurse)

A newborn infant terrorizes a desperate mother.



13 :03x07 - Punishment Without Crime

First aired: Apr/16/1988
Director: Bruce McDonald
Guest star: Donald Pleasence (George Hill), Lynsey Baxter (Katherine), Peggy Mount (The Judge), Iain Cuthbertson (Prosecuting Counsel), Frank Williams (Defence Counsel), John McGlynn (Facsimile Interviewer), Bill Croasdale (Governor), Will Tracey (Priest), George Anton (Lover), William Ivory (Policeman)

A man takes out a contract to have a robot made to look exactly the woman he hates... his wife.



14 :03x08 - On the Orient, North

First aired: Apr/30/1988
Director: Frank Cassenti
Guest star: Magali Noël (Minerva Halliday), Ian Bannen (The Ghastly Passenger), Francois Clavier (Train Official), Herve Pauchon (Priest), Sylvie Novak (Nun), Tim Holm (Police Officer), Jean Gluck (Doctor)

A ghost is given first aid to by a nurse, and she makes sure he gets to where he is going.



15 :03x09 - The Coffin

First aired: May/07/1988
Director: Tom Cotter
Guest star: Denholm Elliott (Richard Braling), Dan O'Herlihy (Charles Braling), Clive Swift (St. John Court)

A designer invents one last thing before he dies: a custom-designed casket. His greedy brother gets a surprise when he prepares to take over the designer's riches.



16 :03x10 - Tyrannosaurus Rex

First aired: May/14/1988
Director: Gilles Behat
Guest star: Cris Campion (Terwilliger), Daniel Ceccaldi (Glass), Jim Dunk (Joe Clarence), Julie Reitzman (Glass' Niece)

An egotistical film producer hires a stop-motion animator to make him the most frightening Tyrannosaurus Rex model of all, and the animator seeks out an unlikely inspiration.



17 :03x11 - There Was An Old Woman

First aired: May/21/1988
Director: Bruce McDonald
Guest star: Mary Morris (Matilda Hanks), Roy Kinnear (Funeral Director), Sylvestra Le Touzel (Emily), Ronald Lacey (The Listener), Robin Soans (Father), Fine Time Fontayne (Mortician (as Finetime Fontayne)), Peter Barton (Listener's Assistant), Stephen Boyes (Listener's Assistant), Louis Emerick (Listener's Assistant), Ken Kitson (Listener's Assistant)

Matilda Hanks, an elderly woman, has spent her entire life denying the existence of death. One day she receives a strange silent visitor on her doorstep, bearing a wicker basket.



18 :03x12 - And So Died Riabouchinska

First aired: May/28/1988
Director: Denys Granier-DeFerre
Guest star: Alan Bates (John Fabian), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (Lieutenant Krovitch), Patti Layne (Alyce Fabian), Annabelle Mouloudji (Ilyana Riamonova), Hilary Staunton (Mr. Douglas), Jacques Berrocal (Ockham)

The police investigate a murder committed in a theater. The detective uncovers a missing ballerina, long concealed love, and blackmail. Their only reliable witness is... a ventriloquist's dummy.



19 :04x01 - The Dwarf

First aired: Jul/07/1989
Director: Costa Botes
Guest star: Megan Follows (Aimee), Miguel Fernandes (Ralph Banghart), Machs Colombani (Mr. Bigelow), David Cameron (Magazine Vendor)

A dwarf seeks escape in a showman's mirror, but his dream is soon destroyed despite the efforts of a young girl.



20 :04x02 - A Miracle of Rare Device

First aired: Jul/14/1989
Director: Roger Tompkins
Guest star: Pat Harrington, Jr. (Robert), Wayne Robson (William), 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), Sarah McLaughlin (Farmer's Daughter), Baden Campbell (Farmer's Son)

Two drifters try to make a buck by selling views to a desert mirage that shows everyone their heart's desire.



21 :04x03 - The Lake

First aired: Jul/21/1989
Director: Pat Robins
Guest star: Gordon Thomson (Douglas), Eli Sharplin (Young Douglas), Jessica Billingsley (Young Tally), Sylvia Rands (Tally's Mother), Tina Regtien (Margaret), Prue Langbein (Douglas' Mother), Jim Moriarty (Life Guard)

An artist returns to the lake where many years ago he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now she waits for the artist to keep his promise.



22 :04x04 - The Wind

First aired: Jul/28/1989
Director: Grahame McLean
Guest star: Michael Sarrazin (John Colt), Ray Henwood (Herb Thompson), Vivienne Labone (Susanne Thompson), Keith Richardson (Keith Parkinson), Anne Lacey (Anne Parkinson)

When a man discovers the secret of the wind, it tries to absorb him to protect itself from his knowledge.



23 :04x05 - The Pedestrian

First aired: Aug/04/1989
Director: Alun Bollinger
Guest star: David Ogden Stiers (Leonard Mead), Grant Tilly (Robert Stockwell), Stig Eldred (Patrol Voice), Matt Murphy (Man On Television)

In the near future, a man tries to go walking at night with his friend, but the authoritarian government confronts him and demands explanations.



24 :04x06 - A Sound of Thunder

First aired: Aug/11/1989
Director: Costa Botes
Guest star: Kiel Martin (Eckles), John Bach (Travis), Michael McLeod (Agent), Michael Batley (Hunter), John McDavitt (Hunter)

After mastering time travel, a company sends safaris into the past to hunt dinosaurs under carefully controlled circumstances. Unfortunately, circumstances take a turn for the worse.



25 :04x07 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

First aired: Aug/18/1989
Director: David Copeland
Guest star: John Saxon (Dudley Stone), Alan Scarfe (John Oatis Kendall), Susan Wilson (Sara Stone), Lewis Rowe (Dudley Stone's Publsiher)

A novice writer decides to kill a prolific author, and the author invites him to murder him the next day at his home.



26 :04x08 - The Haunting of the New

First aired: Sep/15/1989
Director: Roger Tompkins
Guest star: Susannah York (Nora), Richard Comar (Charles), Sheila Hammond (Duchess)

A manor tires of the debauchery that occurs within its walls and burns itself down. When its owner rebuilds it, the manor refuses to let anyone occupy it.



27 :04x09 - To the Chicago Abyss

First aired: Sep/22/1989
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Guest star: Harold Gould (Old Man), Neil Munro (The Stranger), Doreen Ibsen (Woman In Park), Arne MacPherson (Young Man In Park), Linda Ravinovitch (Stranger's Wife), Bill Meilen (The Policeman), Ronald Rault (The Betrayer), Chad Krowchuk (Joseph)

In a not-so-distant future, the tyrannical rulers of a devastated landscape forbid the remembrance of the past... but one old man defies them.



28 :04x10 - Hail and Farewell

First aired: Sep/29/1989
Director: Allan Kroeker
Guest star: Josh Saviano (Willie), 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 (Second Kid, Orphanage), Donovan Workun (Bully's Sidekick)

A boy discovers that he is permanently frozen at the age of 12, and finds a way to put his "gift" to good use.



29 :04x11 - The Veldt

First aired: Nov/10/1989
Director: Brad Turner
Guest star: Linda Kelsey (Lydia Hadley), Malcolm Stewart (George Hadley), Thomas Peacocke (David McLean), Damien Atkins (Peter Hadley), Shana Alexander (Wendy Hadley), Del Mehes (Mechanical Voice)

By using the power of their high-tech nursery, two children let their subconscious manifestations appear to help them rebel against their parents.



30 :04x12 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

First aired: Nov/17/1989
Director: David Brandes
Guest star: Charles Martin Smith (Hugh Fortnum), 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)

A father is concerned that his son's mushroom garden could possibly be taking over the entire neighbourhood.



31 :05x01 - Mars is Heaven

First aired: Jul/20/1990
Director: John Laing
Guest star: Hal Linden (Captain Black), Paul Gross (Skip), Helen Moulder (Mrs. Black), Patrick Smythe (Henley's Grandfather), Wendy McFarlane (Henley's Grandmother), Edward Campbell (Hinkston), Brian Sergent (Larson), Stephen Papps (WIlliam Henley)

The first mission to Mars finds a small Illinois town on the surface of the planet... and their dead family members waiting for them with open arms.



32 :05x02 - The Murderer

First aired: Jul/27/1990
Director: Roger Tompkins
Guest star: Bruce Weitz (Albert Brock), Cedric Smith (Dr. Arnold Fellows), Donna Akerston (Agnes Brock), Michael Haigh (Mr. Jessup)

Albert Brock detests noise and ends up in a mental hospital after destroying all the things he comes across that produce sound.



33 :05x03 - Touched with Fire

First aired: Aug/03/1990
Director: Roger Tompkins
Guest star: Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Annabelle Shrike), Barry Morse (Mr. Foxe), Joseph Shaw (Mr. Shaw), Michael Noonan (Mr. Shrike), Paul Nadas (Albert)

Two elderly men think that murder is more likely to take place at 101 degrees and set out to stop one from taking place.



34 :05x04 - The Black Ferris

First aired: Aug/10/1990
Director: Roger Tompkins
Guest star: Zachary Bennett (Peter), Nathaniel Moreau (Hank Walterson), Frank Whitten (Mr. Cooger), Jonathan Marks (Joseph Pike), Pat Evison (Mrs. Foley), Duncan Smith (Bob Walterson), Stephen Gledhill (Dodger), Kathy Downes (Mrs. Walterson)

When an adult and a young boy show up with the carnival, two local boys soon realize they are one and the same, and plan to rob an old widow of her jewels.



35 :05x05 - Usher II

First aired: Aug/17/1990
Director: Lee Tamahori
Guest star: Patrick Macnee (Stendahl), Ian Mune (Pikes), Stuart Devenie (Garrett (as Stewart Devinie)), Des Kelly (Dr. Steffans), Alice Fraser (Miss Blunt), Susan Wilson (Miss Pope)

A man rebels against a government that has tried to ban imagination by recreating Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.



36 :05x06 - Touch of Petulance

First aired: Oct/12/1990
Director: John Laing
Guest star: Eddie Albert (The Man), Jesse Collins (Jonathan Hughes), Dulcie Smart (Alice Hughes)

A man comes across another man, who claims to be him from the future and has travelled back in time.



37 :05x07 - And The Moon Be Still As Bright

First aired: Oct/19/1990
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Guest star: David Carradine (Spender), Kenneth Welsh (Captain Wilder), James Purcell (Parkhill), Ben Cardinal (Cheroke), Brian Jensen (Biggs), Warren Perkins (Cramer)

One of the Mars explorers becomes dangerously obsessed with the planet's previous inhabitants.



38 :05x08 - The Toynbee Convector

First aired: Oct/26/1990
Director: John Laing
Guest star: James Whitmore (Craig Bennett Stiles), Michael Hurst (Roger Shumway), Perry Piercy (Sam), Michael Galvin (Assistant)

A man travels into the future to see what lies ahead for humanity, then brings the knowledge back so that the people of the world can rise to the occasion.



39 :05x09 - Exorcism

First aired: Nov/02/1990
Director: Brad Turner
Guest star: Sally Kellerman (Clara Goodwater), Jayne Eastwood (Elmira Brown), Bartley Bard (Sam Brown), Jordan Singer (Tom)

An accident-prone woman believes that her neighbor is a witch, and has been using her powers to curse her and win the Ladies Lodge election.



40 :05x10 - The Day It Rained Forever

First aired: Nov/09/1990
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Guest star: Vincent Gardenia (Mr. Joseph Terle), Gerard Parkes (Mr. Smith), Robert Clothier (Mr. Fremley), Sheila Moore (Blanche Hillgood)

A music teacher seeking a new life comes to a small town where three old men wait in desperation for rain that never comes.



41 :05x11 - The Long Years

First aired: Nov/16/1990
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Robert Culp (John Hathaway), George Touliatos (Captain Wilder), Judith Buchan (Cora Hathaway), Donna Larson (Margurite Hathaway), Bruce Mitchell (Tom Hathaway), Jason Wolff (Bill Williamson)

A man and his family wait for a ship to rescue them from Mars. However, when a ship finally arrives, the crew make a startling discovery.



42 :05x12 - Here There Be Tygers

First aired: Nov/30/1990
Director: John Laing
Guest star: Timothy Bottoms (Driscoll), Peter J. Elliott (Chatterton), George Henare (Forester), Lorae Parry (Koestler)

An expeditionary team explores a planet where the entire world is one living creature... and hostile toward those who mean it harm.



43 :05x13 - The Earthmen

First aired: Jan/03/1992
Director: Graeme Campbell
Guest star: David Birney (Captain Jonathan Williams), Gordon Pinsent (Mr. Xxx), Larry Musser (Lieutenant Wilson), David Sivertsen (Lieutenant Pete Young), Patricia Phillips (Mrs. Ttt), Jim Shepard (Mr. Aaa), Raul Tome (Mr. Ili)

The local inhabitants of Mars seem unconcerned when an Earth expedition comes to find two previously teams that have gone missing.



44 :05x14 - Zero Hour

First aired: Jan/10/1992
Director: Don McBrearty
Guest star: Sally Kirkland (Mary Morris), Katharine Isabelle (Mink (as Katherine Isobel Murray)), Jill Dyck (Helen), Brian Taylor (Henry Morris), Kurtis Brown (Eddie Beek), Ronan Cahill (Joseph)

Eight-year-olds play a new game which involves an imaginary friend who is asking them to gather objects to aid in their pretend game of Invasion.



45 :05x15 - The Jar

First aired: Jan/17/1992
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Guest star: Paul Le Mat (Charlie), Jennifer Dale (Thedy), Earl Pastko (Tom Carmody), John Dee (Gramps), Billy Morton (Luke Marmer), Bill Meilen (Jahdoo), Randall Payne (Carney Boss)

A backwoods farmer buys a jar, and its strange contents, from a carney boss and uses it to attract his neighbors and gain their respect.



46 :05x16 - Colonel Stonesteel and the "Desperate Empties"

First aired: Jan/24/1992
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Guest star: Harold Gould (Colonel Stonesteel), Shawn Ashmore (Charlie Flagstaff), Wayne Robson (The Sheriff), Walter Kaasa (Mayor)

A retired military colonel comes to the aid of a teenage boy seeking relief from the last boring days of summer, and together they invent a hoax involving a mummy.



47 :05x17 - The Concrete Mixer

First aired: Jan/31/1992
Director: Eleanore Lindo
Guest star: Ben Cross (Ettil Vyre), Howard Jerome (Van Plank), John Gilbert (The Assignor), Jan Smith (Tylla), Grant Reddick (Mayor)

After reading various comic books, an alien from Mars is very reluctant to attack Earth.



48 :05x18 - The Utterly Perfect Murder

First aired: Feb/07/1992
Director: Stuart Margolin
Guest star: Richard Kiley (Doug Spaulding), Robert Clothier (Ralph Underhill), David Turri (Young Doug), Eric Johnson (Young Ralph (as Eric J. Johnson))

A man seeks out the person who bullied him at school to get revenge.



49 :05x19 - Let's Play Poison

First aired: Feb/14/1992
Director: Bruce Pittman
Guest star: Richard Benjamin (Mr. Howard), Shane Meier (Charles Scott Jones), Adam Derges (Michael McDonald), Warren Graves (Donald Bowers)

A teacher starts becoming highly worried that his students may be attempting to kill him.



50 :05x20 - The Martian

First aired: Feb/21/1992
Director: Anne Wheeler
Guest star: John Vernon (La Farge), Paul Clemens (Tom), Sheila Moore (Anna), Paul Coeur (Saul), Janne Mortil (Lavinia)

Two grieving parents are looking forward to a new life on Mars... and are reunited with their dead son.



51 :06x01 - The Lonely One

First aired: Jul/10/1992
Director: Ian Mune
Guest star: Joanna Cassidy (Lavinia Nebbs), Sheila McCarthy (Francine), Maggie Harper (Helen), Stephen O'Rourke (Officer Kennedy), Peter Rowley (Druggist), David Perret (Frank Dillon (as David Perrett)), Chic Littlewood (Theatre Manager), Patrick Smith (Pale Man), Elizabeth Pendergrast (Miss Roberta), Kathleen Bridget Kelly (Miss Fern (as Kathleen Kelly))

A single woman, Lavinia, insists on going to the movies with her two friends, despite the fact that there is a serial killer on the loose.



52 :06x02 - The Happiness Machine

First aired: Jul/17/1992
Director: John Laing
Guest star: Elliott Gould (Leo Auffmann), Mimi Kuzyk (Lena Auffmann), Paul McIver (Saul Auffmann), Tania Mason (Naomi Auffmann), Matthew Brennan (Aaron Auffmann), Claire Chitham (Rosalyn Auffmann)

A man becomes obsessed with building a happiness machine, much to his wife's dismay and disappointment.



53 :06x03 - Tomorrow's Child

First aired: Aug/14/1992
Director: Costa Botes
Guest star: Carol Kane (Polly), Michael Sarrazin (Peter), Peter Bland (Dr. Wolcott), Mark Clare (Workman), Lisa Tapley-Bale (Mary), Mike Daly (Bill), Mandy McMullin (Sheila), John Kerr (Don)

In the future, expectant parents get a surprise when the teleport birthing device used to deliver their baby malfunctions, and transforms the newborn into an extra-dimensional pyramid.



54 :06x04 - The Handler

First aired: Aug/19/1992
Director: Peter Sharp
Guest star: Michael J. Pollard (Mr. A. Benedict), Henry Beckman (Mr. Merriwell Blythe), John Sumner (Mr. Stuyvesant), Peter Rowley (Mr. Flinger), Lee Grant (Mrs. Rogers), Lynne Skinner (Mrs. Shellmund), Johnny Crews (Mr. Wren), Steve Cleary (Edmund Worth), Casey Anstiss (Small Boy), Christopher Brodeur (Skateboarding Boy), Jocelyn Brodeur (Mrs. McNamara)

When the townspeople relentlessly mock the local mortician and he meekly swallows their insults, they're unaware that he gets revenge on them after they die.



55 :06x05 - Great Wide World Over There

First aired: Aug/20/1992
Director: Ian Mune
Guest star: Tyne Daly (Cora Gibbs), David Orth (Benjy), Bill Johnson (Tom Gibbs), Helen Moulder (Mrs. Brabbam), Frank Whitten (Mailman)

A nephew visits his isolated Aunt Cora, who is desperate to receive letters and escape the scorn of a neighboring woman who always gets mail.



56 :06x06 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

First aired: Aug/21/1992
Director: John Reid
Guest star: Jean Stapleton (Grandma), Robert Morelli (Tom), Lucy Lawless (Liddy Barton), Patrick Smith (Postman)

A man installs a garbage disposer, which worries his grandmother-in-law a great deal.



57 :06x07 - The Anthem Sprinters

First aired: Aug/21/1992
Director: Wayne Tourell
Guest star: Len Cariou (Raymond Douglas), Robert Ball (Doone), Ken Blackburn (Timulty), Ian Watkin (Heeber Finn), Terry Hayman (Fogarty), Bruce Allpress (O'Gavin), Karl Bradley (Cinema Manager), Grant Bridger (Phil the Projectionist), Alister Babbage (Nolan), David Baxter (Kelly), Maurice Keene (Book Store Owner)

A tourist from the USA gets involved in an Irish sporting event.



58 :06x08 - By the Numbers

First aired: Sep/11/1992
Director: Wayne Tourell
Guest star: Ray Sharkey (Father / Sgt. Cress), Geordie Johnson (Douglas), Ciaran Pennington (The Boy), Marton Csokas (Sid), Erik Thomson (Young Man), Bruce Tegart (Hotel Waiter), Nii Hammond (Train Waiter)

A man witnesses a hotel pool manager, an ex-soldier, ruthlessly berate his son. Years later, the man meets the now-adult boy and learns the truth about what really happened.



59 :06x09 - The Long Rain

First aired: Sep/19/1992
Director: Lee Tamahori
Guest star: Marc Singer (Commander John Trask), Michael Hurst (Lieutenant Simmons), Brian Sergent (Boltz), Mark Rafferty (Cooper)

Four astronauts survive a crash on a planet where it never stops raining, and must make their way across the surface to a survival dome.



60 :06x10 - The Dead Man

First aired: Sep/26/1992
Director: Costa Botes
Guest star: Louise Fletcher (Miss Weldon), Frank Whitten (John "Odd" Martin), Ross Duncan (Mr. Simpson), Gilbert Goldie (Mr. Gilpatrick), Peter McCauley (Sheriff), David Taylor (Radney Bellows), Irene Drake (Mrs. Bellows), Alistair Douglas (Customer), Peter Morgan (Rev. Polk), David Telford (Henry Scott), Dean O'Gorman (Charlie Bellows)

A man who claims to be dead is befriended by a manicurist.



61 :06x11 - Sun and Shaddow

First aired: Oct/03/1992
Director: Larry Parr
Guest star: Gregory Sierra (Ricardo Reyes), John Bach (Lazlo), Stuart Margolin (Vincent), Vicky Haughton (Maria Reyes), Ken Blackburn (Policeman (Esteban)), Lee Mete Kingi (Tomas Reyes), Jose Bribiesca (Jorge), James Roberts (Andrew)

A Mexican man resists when an American director tries to use his house as background for a beer commercial.



62 :06x12 - Silent Towns

First aired: Oct/10/1992
Director: Lee Tamahori
Guest star: John Glover (Walter Gripp), Monica Parker (Genevieve Selsor)

After the evacuation of Mars, the last man left behind tries to find the last woman.



63 :06x13 - Downwind from Gettysburg

First aired: Oct/17/1992
Director: Chris Bailey
Guest star: Howard Hesseman (Walter Bayes), Robert Joy (Norman Llewellyn Booth), Kelly Johnson (Phipps (John Phipps)), Roy Bonnell (Lincoln), Jim Rawdon (Attendant), Timothy Dale (The Boy)

At an animatronic exhibition featuring Ford's Theater and the death of the 16th President, a man named Booth decides to assassinate a robotic Abraham Lincoln.



64 :06x14 - Some Live Like Lazarus

First aired: Oct/24/1992
Director: Peter Sharp
Guest star: Janice Rule (Anna), Yannick Bisson (Roger), Yvonne Lawley (Mother), Noel Trevarthen (Roger (age 60)), Katie Wolfe (Anna (age 18-22)), Kristin Darragh (Anna (age 10-12)), Leon Woods (Roger (age 10-12)), Andrew Thurtell (Paul), Greer Robson (Carol), Deborah Katherine (Hotel Maid)

A boy meets a girl at a holiday resort, and romance blossoms as they reunite there every summer. However, his mother forbids their marriage, so he suggests they wed on the event of her death.



65 :06x15 - The Tombstone

First aired: Oct/30/1992
Director: Warrick Attewell
Guest star: Shelley Duvall (Leota Bean), Ron White (Walter Bean), Desmond Kelly (The Landlord (Mr. Fox)), John Smythe (Mr. Whetmore), June Bishop (The Woman (Mrs White)), Paul Royce (The Couch Potato), Lyndon Peoples (THe Man (Mr White)), Jocelyn Brodeur (The Young Lady)

A couple stop on their travels and take a room at a boarding house. However, they discover that the previous resident left a tombstone in the room.