A very abridged spoken word reading of “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Usher II” was made in 1975 with Leonard Nimoy as narrator.
A BBC Radio 4 adaption, produced by Andrew Mark Sewell as an hour-long programme and starring Derek Jacobi as Captain Wilder, was broadcast on June 21, 2014, as part of the Dangerous Visions series.
Television miniseries
Main article: The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries)
In 1979 NBC partnered with the BBC to commission The Martian Chronicles, a three-episode miniseries adaptation running just over four hours. It was written by Richard Matheson and was directed by Michael Anderson. Rock Hudson starred as Wilder, Darren McGavin as Parkhill, Bernadette Peters as Genevieve Selsor, Bernie Casey as Jeff Spender, Roddy McDowall as Father Stone, and Barry Morse as Hathaway, as well as Fritz Weaver. Bradbury found the miniseries “just boring”.
Television adaptations of individual stories
The cable television series The Ray Bradbury Theater adapted some individual short stories from The Martian Chronicles including “Mars is Heaven”, “The Earthmen”, “And the Moon Be Still as Bright”, “Usher II”, “The Martian”, “Silent Towns”, and “The Long Years”. Video releases of the series included a VHS tape entitled Ray Bradbury’s Chronicles: The Martian Episodes with some editions with three episodes and others with five.
Comic books
Several of the short stories in The Martian Chronicles were adapted into graphic novel-style stories in the EC Comics magazines, including “There Will Come Soft Rains” in Weird Fantasy #17, “The Long Years” in Weird Science #17, “Mars Is Heaven” in Weird Science #18, “The Million-Year Picnic” in Weird Fantasy #21 and “The Silent Towns” in Weird Fantasy #22.
In 2011, Hill & Wang published Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation as a graphic novel, with art by Dennis Calero.
Video games
The Martian Chronicles adventure game was published in 1996.
