Episode
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Silent Towns
Overview
A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.
Details
- Series
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1992-10-10
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Silent Towns is Episode 17 in Season 6 of The Ray Bradbury Theater. It aired on 1992-10-10. The runtime is 23 min.
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