#The Ray Bradbury Theatre

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‘The Witch’s Curse’ Murder, She Wrote guest stars:

Mary Crosby returns (Dallas, ST:DS9, Brothers & Sisters, The Love Boat, Stagecoach, Lois & Card, Burke’s Law, etc. Also, Bing Crosby’s daughter, Denise Crosby’s aunt)

Robert Vaugn (The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno, Superman III, An American Affair, Hustle, The Nanny, Law & Order, Diagnosis Murder, Escape to Witch Mountain, Perry Mason, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The A-Team, etc)

S8 E12 12 Jan 1992

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Ray Bradbury

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i do think we really need to bring back anthology tv shows where every episode is just a little story where its just like damn! wouldnt it be fucked up if that happened? anyway,

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[buttercupadventures]

We watched Fahrenheit 451 at a local theatre tonight. It was a small production but very veeery good. All the actors were so talented! Maybe it's time to return to my theatre enthusiast era?

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Winding Up the Week #372

An end of week recap “If you can’t write freely and if you can’t speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country.” – Mehmet Murat ildan This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers…

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✨Jason Todd's Bookshelf✨

i think it's so interesting to see what books Jason Todd would read/own, so here's my own contribution! some of these are canon* (hence the *), some are popular headcanons and some are my own speculation. i'll probably continue to add to this.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*

1984 by George (Wh)Orwell*

The Prince by Machiavelli*

The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

Hamlet*

An additional complete works of William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

i think Holden Caulfield secretly reminds him of Bruce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka

specifically owns a copy that has both of them in there

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

this may be a bit on the nose, but Jason would love a good satire

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibu Tufail

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

but lowkey he hates it

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Iliad by Homer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

i don't see Jason as being a big fantasy/sci-fi guy unless it falls under the magical realism or gothic categories (i.e, Beloved, Frankenstein), however i do think he would jive with Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and (unfortunately) Harlan Ellison

i can also see him jiving with R.F Kuang and i think The Poppy War specifically would be an exception to his usual disinterest in fantasy

i think he maybe also has a stash of paperback Star Wars novels stashed away somewhere

if jason is a theatre kid into adulthood, i think he would be the kind that reads solely straight plays

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Complete Works of Arthur Miller

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

he typically avoids stuff that’s so directly about mortality, but this play would really resonate with him and honestly be a healing read

being the hater that he is, he's also hate read at least one Collen Hoover book (and promptly left it in the Batcave to frame Bruce for the crime)

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Books, So Many Books

The Bedside Pile

~ Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

~ Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

~ Geisha: The Secret History Of A Vanishing World by Lesley Downer

Physical TBR

~ The Mammoth Hunters by Jean Auel

~ Plains Of Passage by Jean Auel

~ Shelters Of Stone by Jean Auel

~ Land Of The Painted Caves by Jean Auel

~ As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

~ On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

~ Here I Am by Jonathan Foer

~ A Killer Choice by Tom Hunt

~ Cold Heart by Linda LaPlante

~ Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

~ Brothers by Bernice Rubens

~ The Hickory Staff by Robert Scott

~ The Farm by Tom Smith

~ The Master Of Ballantre by Robert L. Stevenson

~ Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

~ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

~ The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Storygraph TBR

~ The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

~ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

~ Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

~ Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

~ Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

~ Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro

~ The Gospel Of The Eels by Patrik Svensson

~ The End Of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

~ Orlando by Virginia Woolf

~ Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi

~ The Ritual by Adam Nevill

~ Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

~ Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

~ The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

~ Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

~ Battle Royale by Koushin Takami

~ What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

~ The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

~ American Prometheus by Kai Bird

~ Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

~ The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

~ Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

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“And then he knew. Inside each man, though he did not know it, nor ever considered it, was the image of the woman he someday must love. Whether she was composed of all the music he had ever heard or all of the trees he had ever seen or all the friends of his childhood, certainly no one could tell. Whether the eyes were his mother's, and the chin that of a girl cousin swimming in a summer lake twenty-five years ago, this was unknowable also. But most men carried this image, like a locket, like a pearl-cameo, in their head a lifetime, taking it out only rarely, taking it out never, after marriage, afraid then to compare it to the reality. And most men never saw the woman they would love anywhere, in the dark theatre, in a book, or passing on the street. They saw her only after midnight when the city was asleep and the pillow was cool under their heads. And she was a composite of all dreams and all women and every moonlight night since the calendar began.”

— Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night

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So, minus the ants, this is basically an episode of The Ray Bradbury Theatre, season 2, episode 11. The episode was called ‘There Was An Old Woman.’

The main character, Tildy, wakes up one day to discover she is dead, but she refuses to be dead.

I discuss this episode in one of my rants about how much I hate Star Trek :Picard season 3 and their treatment of women.

I highly recommend the episode, as Tildy was a great character.

Imagine showing up to work one day and people are like "jesus fucking christ there's a corpse in here", herd you to the back room and everyone who sees you also agrees that there is now a dead body where you are sitting, with the appropriate amount of shock and disgust about it. You figure it's some kind of a prank that they're pulling, but also the people that you know aren't into pranks, or aren't very good actors, are treating you like a corpse. They go weirdly back and forth between talking about you as if you're not there, and politely asking you to stay still while they figure out who you're supposed to call in case of a dead body randomly appearing.

Paramedics show up, study you thoroughly and agree that while they can't see any apparent sign of death, you are, indeed, dead, and ask you to climb aboard the ambulance. You're taken to the temporary corpse storage that hospitals have.

On the way there you ask them whether this kind of shit happens often, and while they won't look at you, the paramedics agree that they've never had a talking corpse before, though they won't question the fact that you're moving on your own.

You're eventually led to a morgue, where you're shown a slab to lay on, and at this point you don't really even question it, you just climb onto the Corpse Shelf and lay down, maybe have a little nap, with no idea what's going to happen next.

Then you wake up to someone walking into the morgue, who has the shit scared out of them when you move, and they're like "dude what the fuck, you're not supposed to be here, this place is for storing dead bodies" and when you're like "aw man sorry I thought I was a dead body" they have no idea whether you're joking and they don't care, you're just chased out of there.

And you just kinda go home and take a shower, show up to work normally the next day and nobody questions it.

And basically that's probably how those ants feel when scientists spray them with the Pheromone That Dead Ants Smell Like, and just hang out at the dead-ant-pile until the smell wears off.

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Murder, She Wrote ‘The Petrified Florist’ guest stars

Sally Kellerman (MASH film, ST:TOS, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, My Three Sons, Ben Casey, It Takes a Thief, Diagnosis Murder, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Dinosaurs, Law & Order: LA, The Young and the Restless)

Gregory Sierra (a character actor of 130 credits including Star Trek: DS9, It Takes a Thief, The Flying Nun, The Mod Squad, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Alias Smith & Jones, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, All in the Family, Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, Barney Miller, Sanford & Son, Lou Grant, Quincy ME, Hill Street Blues, Hart to Hart, Miami Vice, Simon & Simon, Cagney & Lacey, Growing Pains, MacGyver, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Ray Bradbury Theatre, Golden Palace, The X-Files, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman)

S9E15 Episode aired Feb 21, 1993

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Ray Bradbury

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Carol in the Ray Bradbury theatre 🎭

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This is Ray Bradbury Theatre erasure 😡

Horror Anthology On Television

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962)

The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

Night Gallery (1969-1973)

The Hitchhiker (1983-1991)

Tales From The Darkside (1984-1988)

Tales From The Crypt (1989-1996)

Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (1990-2000)

Goosebumps (1995-1998)

Masters Of Horror (2005-2007)

American Horror Story (2011-Current)

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tag post

this is a fiction (side)blog. tags are subject to change. all posts are fine to reblog.

my AO3 is here.

—dark deeds (crime) —genesis and void (science fiction) —labyrinths —mystery —otherworlds (fantasy) —quis est iste qui uenit (horror) —romance —sea tales —traversings (gay fiction) —war stories —we lived in coded times (the cold war and, by extension, soviet authoritarianism) —westerns

you will find most things tagged as books / film / tv / theatre x. is for my literary uploads and thoughts on Narrative, &c

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literature: the chronicles of narnia, dracula (cf. the obsessional text), gormenghast, the haunting of hill house, the invisible man, jonathan strange and mr norrell, lord peter wimsey, the lord of the rings, lud-in-the-mist, the master and margarita, my cousin rachel, the mysterious mr quin, philip marlowe, piranesi, rebecca, the secret history, strange case of doctor jekyll and mr hyde, treasure island, watership down, we have always lived in the castle, the woman in white

writers: ray bradbury, john le carré, raymond chandler, agatha christie, wilkie collins, patricia highsmith, shirley jackson, m. r. james, cormac mccarthy, daphne du maurier, robert louis stevenson, h. g. wells

film: alien, an american werewolf in london, the big sleep, blade runner, das boot, capote, carol, the day of the jackal, der himmel über berlin, la jetée, the lighthouse, lucky, master and commander, nosferatu, out of the past, phantom thread, pi, the proposition, star wars, time bandits, true history of the kelly gang, was nützt die liebe in gedanken, the wicker man

tv: 1899, barkskins, blake’s 7, the borgias, brideshead revisited, chernobyl, dark, doctor who, hbo war (band of brothers, the pacific, masters of the air, generation kill), kingdom, the letter for the king, manhattan, the oa, person of interest, picnic at hanging rock, quatermass and the pit, the terror, tinker tailor soldier spy, the wire, the young pope