THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER - "Usher II" (1990)

 

Some Saturday Night's are more Special than others, and tonight's feature is one of those!

This show was another recommendation my by friend, DJ, and all-around good guy, Lord Litter in Berlin! 

If you want to hear some very cool music that rocks all the way from The East Side Kids to The Mutant Beatniks, then you really need to check out some of his radio shows!

 

Episode 5 from Season 4 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater aired in 1990, and was titled "Usher II."

It's pretty hard to go wrong when you combine the talents of Ray Bradbury, Patrick Macnee, and Edgar Allen Poe!

 

The future is now, books are bad, and Patrick Macnee's character, a Mr. Stendahl is breaking a lot of laws, and the authorities don't like it, so they send out Stuart Devenie as Garrett to take care of business.

Also known as Stewart Devinie, and however you want to spell it, he's made a career out of playing characters and doing voices with names like Kernunnos, Fake Skourous, Governor Croque, Imperius, Sanganoon, Cormac, and Renfield.

Mr. Stendahl is a big fan of the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

It can be fairly difficult to mix genres like Science Fiction and Gothic Fiction, but leave it to Ray Bradbury to figure it all out, and get it right!

Mr. Stendahl's home is dedicated to the writings of Poe and is filled with weird robotic creatures.

 

Garrett reports back to his superiors that there is nothing out of the ordinary going on in the Usher house.

They decide to investigate for themselves which turns out to be a real bad idea.

One by one they are methodically murdered.

Mr. Stendahl enjoys the proceedings immensely! 

Some of Poe's finest works like "The Pit And The Pendulum," and "Premature Burial"..............

............Are acted out in full detail right to the end!

If only Garrett had read the books he burned, he would have been able to see what was coming, but alas........

 

"Ignorance is Fatal."