John Laing

director
TV Episode

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e06)

Touch of Petulance

A faithful adaptation of Bradbury’s 1980 story of a man who returns to his warn his younger self about the future course of his marriage. —Michael Main
We are one, the same person: Jonathan Hughes.
Sitting on a train, Eddie Albert (as old Jonathan Hughes) looks out over a newspaper.
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e08)

The Toynbee Convector

At the end of Bradbury’s adaptation of his own earlier story, he adds a holo-twist that viewers of The Ray Bradbury Theater may have enjoyed. —Michael Main
Stiles: For years I brooded on it. I was in complete despair, and then one night, I was rereading H. G. Wells and his wonderful time machine, and then it struck me. “Eureka!” I cried, “I’ve found it. This [pounds book in hand] is my blueprint.”
James Whitmore (as one-hundred-thirty-five-year-old Craig Bennett Stiles) sits in his Wellsian time machine with bright bluish light streaming through the high windows behind him.
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel