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The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985 · TV series · 6 seasons
Created by Ray Bradbury
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.
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There is this TV series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ray_Bradbury_Theater
which is a unique SF show in that it is not based on characters and settings the way 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘬 or 𝘎𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮 or even 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘱 are. They are free to tear down the world each time and take the imagination far and they did most of it when Bradbury was still alive.
Characters of all ages from young children to old men and women are represented. There is artistic input from the writer but also the director, actors, casting, music, etc. I can't think of another anthology SF series that is this successful.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusOne55-08-04012TheVeldt.mp3
> Yet instead, the precocious children lock their parents into a virtual reality room, where they allow them to be eaten by virtual – yet nonetheless carnivorous – lions.
I remember seeing this as an 80s or 90s scifi episode. The children disabled the safeties on a holodeck like system and fed their parents to the lions.
It must have been "Ray Bradbury Theater", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)#Adaptations
double edit, it was. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683235/fullcredits
I was introduced to Ray Bradbury through The Ray Bradbury Theater tv series, in 7th grade. A fellow classmate, Eric Johnson, was in an episode and so we watched it in class. I enjoyed it - enough that I wanted to see more. I only saw a few more episodes, but from that I took out 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' movie from the Library. I enjoyed that, and ended up diving into some of his written stuff as well. While I didn't read everything the man ever wrote - his work is certainly credited for helping me find literature outside of the normal stuff we're given in school - or what everyone else was reading at the time (David Eddings).
Sidenote: Eric Johnson went on to play the young Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, and Lana Langs boyfriend in the first season of Smallville. I hated him in junior high - he was exceptionally rude to everyone. What's weird, is I was still happy for the guy, whenever I saw him in something new.