About this season
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
Episodes (12)
1. The Dwarf
8.0Aired 7 July 1989 • 24 min
A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.
2. A Miracle of Rare Device
Aired 14 July 1989 • 24 min
Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.
3. The Lake
Aired 21 July 1989 • 24 min
An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.
4. The Wind
Aired 28 July 1989 • 24 min
After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.
5. The Pedestrian
Aired 4 August 1989 • 24 min
A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.
6. A Sound of Thunder
Aired 11 August 1989 • 24 min
Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.
7. The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Aired 18 August 1989 • 24 min
When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.
8. The Haunting of the New
Aired 15 September 1989 • 24 min
A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.
9. To the Chicago Abyss
Aired 22 September 1989 • 24 min
In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
10. Hail and Farewell
Aired 29 September 1989 • 24 min
Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.
11. The Veldt
Aired 10 November 1989 • 24 min
Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.
12. Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Aired 17 November 1989 • 24 min
A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.