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The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater

Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater!

The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

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  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Crowd

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    S1:E3

    A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

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  2. 7.5/10(180 votes)

    #2 - A Miracle of Rare Device

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    S4:E2

    Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

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    Director:N/A
  3. 7.2/10(232 votes)

    #3 - The Small Assassin

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    S3:E6

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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    Director:N/A
  4. 7.2/10(200 votes)

    #4 - The Dwarf

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    S4:E1

    A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

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    Director:Costa Botes
  5. 7.1/10(155 votes)

    #5 - The Pedestrian

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    S4:E5

    A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

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  6. 7.1/10(131 votes)

    #6 - The Long Rain

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    S6:E14

    When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.

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  8. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Marionettes, Inc.

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    S1:E1

    John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  9. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Playground

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    S1:E2

    When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.

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  10. 6.9/10(140 votes)

    #9 - Tyrannosaurus Rex

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    S3:E10

    A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

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    Director:N/A
  11. 6.8/10(148 votes)

    #10 - The Veldt

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    S4:E11

    Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

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    Director:Brad Turner
  12. 6.7/10(131 votes)

    #11 - The Haunting of the New

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    S4:E8

    A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

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  13. 6.7/10(147 votes)

    #12 - The Earthmen

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    S6:E1

    A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  14. 6.7/10(129 votes)

    #13 - The Concrete Mixer

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    S6:E5

    A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  15. 6.5/10(236 votes)

    #14 - The Town Where No One Got Off

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    A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.

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  16. 6.5/10(166 votes)

    #15 - The Emissary

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    S3:E3

    A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

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  17. 6.5/10(135 votes)

    #16 - Punishment Without Crime

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    S3:E7

    A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

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  18. 6.4/10(150 votes)

    #17 - Skeleton

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    S3:E2

    A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

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  19. 6.4/10(179 votes)

    #18 - There Was an Old Woman

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    S3:E11

    Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

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    Director:N/A
  20. 6.3/10(214 votes)

    #19 - Banshee

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    S2:E3

    An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

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  21. 6.3/10(136 votes)

    #20 - And So Died Riabouchinska

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    S3:E12

    A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

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  22. 6.3/10(117 votes)

    #21 - A Sound of Thunder

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    S4:E6

    Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

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    Director:Costa Botes
  23. 6.3/10(128 votes)

    #22 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

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    S4:E12

    A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

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  24. 6.3/10(140 votes)

    #23 - The Murderer

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    Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.

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    Director:N/A
  25. 6.3/10(111 votes)

    #24 - By the Numbers

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    S6:E13

    The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

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  26. 6.2/10(215 votes)

    #25 - The Screaming Woman

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    S2:E2

    A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Crowd" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Ralph L. Thomas and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 7/2/1985. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Miracle of Rare Device".