Ray Bradbury Theater

[TheWickerFan]

I used to watch Ray Bradbury Theater back in the 80s. Unfortunately, the series was kind of cheesy, so it didn't do the great Bradbury stories justice. I'd love to see these stories done again:

The Crowd
The Playground
The Small Assassin
The Wind
The Veldt
The Haunting Of The New
Boys, Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Mars Is Heaven
Let's Play Poison
Zero Hour

What are your favorite Ray Bradbury stories?

P.S. Also mentioned in a previous thread my Top 5 episodes of 5 horror TV shows (original Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales Of The Unexpected, Hammer House Of Horror, and Masters Of Horror). I'd love to discuss those shows too.

[neverending]

I think the series was quite well done. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

As for favorite Bradbury stories- all of them. I'm a huge Bradbury fan. I've done his story The Murderer as a performance piece a few times.

For more in depth discussion, we should go to the Books forum, I think.

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by neverending

I think the series was quite well done. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

As for favorite Bradbury stories- all of them. I'm a huge Bradbury fan. I've done his story The Murderer as a perfoprmance piece a few times.

For more in depth discussion, we should go to the Books forum, I think.

I really wasn't sure whether to put this thread under TV or books. Sorry about that.

[endo]

I miss both Ray Bradbury Theater and Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected on TV.
Love the Dahl episode when the doctor makes the device that allows him to hear plants and trees screaming in pain.
Wish I could find all of them on DVD.

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by endo

I miss both Ray Bradbury Theater and Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected on TV.
Love the Dahl episode when the doctor makes the device that allows him to hear plants and trees screaming in pain.
Wish I could find all of them on DVD.

You can't find them? They should all be available from Amazon.

I loved both these shows, but I really thought Ray Bradbury Theater could have been done better (I guess when some of my favorite short stories are brought to the screen, I get fussy).

[endo]

Well, I was actually browsing torrent sites for them.:o But now that I'm back to work I'll check Amazon and see what I can find.

[KryLon]

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan

I used to watch Ray Bradbury Theater back in the 80s. Unfortunately, the series was kind of cheesy, so it didn't do the great Bradbury stories justice. I'd love to see these stories done again:

The Crowd
The Playground
The Small Assassin
The Wind
The Veldt
The Haunting Of The New
Boys, Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Mars Is Heaven
Let's Play Poison
Zero Hour

What are your favorite Ray Bradbury stories?

P.S. Also mentioned in a previous thread my Top 5 episodes of 5 horror TV shows (original Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales Of The Unexpected, Hammer House Of Horror, and Masters Of Horror). I'd love to discuss those shows too.

Mine are "The Lake", "Touched with Fire", and so many others...
As far as TV, what about the long forgotten "Thriller" episodes. Those were truly frightening! ( La Strega, Pigeons from Hell, etc.)
~M~

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by KryLon

Mine are "The Lake", "Touched with Fire", and so many others...
As far as TV, what about the long forgotten "Thriller" episodes. Those were truly frightening! ( La Strega, Pigeons from Hell, etc.)
~M~

I loved The Lake as well.

I never got an opportunity to see Thriller on TV. I think I'll put the DVDs on my Amazon Wishlist.

[KryLon]

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan

I loved The Lake as well.

I never got an opportunity to see Thriller on TV. I think I'll put the DVDs on my Amazon Wishlist.

Whoa, I didn't know they were available @ Amazon or anywhere else; I'll be checking that out too.
Almost every Bradbury story from Dark Carnival ( October Country ) is a masterpiece and a "must-read".
A funny side note about The Lake. A friend of mine in HS and I used to have a running dispute about the opening lines to the story: He always said "They cut the sky down to my size" and I vehemently argued that it opens with "The wave shut me off from the world". Neither of us refused to budge and it wasn't til years later that I found out we were BOTH right. Bradbury had edited some of the Dark Carnival stories for October Country, and that was one of the changes he made.
~M~

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by KryLon

Whoa, I didn't know they were available @ Amazon or anywhere else; I'll be checking that out too.
Almost every Bradbury story from Dark Carnival ( October Country ) is a masterpiece and a "must-read".
A funny side note about The Lake. A friend of mine in HS and I used to have a running dispute about the opening lines to the story: He always said "They cut the sky down to my size" and I vehemently argued that it opens with "The wave shut me off from the world". Neither of us refused to budge and it wasn't til years later that I found out we were BOTH right. Bradbury had edited some of the Dark Carnival stories for October Country, and that was one of the changes he made.
~M~

Thriller doesn't come out until August 31.