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The Ray Bradbury Theater
The Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for two seasons on HBO from 1985 to 1986, and four additional seasons on USA Network from 1988 to 1992. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel and later Retro Television Network. All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury and many were based on short stories or novels he had written, including "A Sound of Thunder", "Marionettes, Inc.", "Banshee", "The Playground", "Mars
) and a first-season episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" (under the original title).
The story has most recently been adapted on BBC Radio 4 as part of "The Illustrated Man" production on the "Dangerous Visions" series, broadcast on 14 June 2014 and starring Iain Glen as "The Illustrated Man".
Sequel.
The Bradbury story Punishment Without the Crime serves as a sort of sequel, telling of how Marionettes Inc. has grown in the future and has come to outlaw the