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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!

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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Best Episodes Summary

"A Miracle of Rare Device" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored 7.5/10 based on 174 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 7/14/1989. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Small Assassin".

  • A Miracle of Rare Device
    7.5/10174 votes
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    #1 - A Miracle of Rare Device

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/1989

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Small Assassin
    7.2/10227 votes
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    #2 - The Small Assassin

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/1988

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Dwarf
    7.2/10196 votes
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    #3 - The Dwarf

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/1989

    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.

    Director: Costa Botes

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Pedestrian
    7.1/10152 votes
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    #4 - The Pedestrian

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/1989

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Long Rain
    7.1/10126 votes
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    #5 - The Long Rain

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 9/19/1992

    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.

    Director: Stuart Margolin

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Crowd
    6.9/10338 votes
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    #6 - The Crowd

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/2/1985

    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.

    Director: Ralph L. Thomas

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Tyrannosaurus Rex
    6.9/10137 votes
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    #7 - Tyrannosaurus Rex

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Marionettes, Inc.
    6.8/10367 votes
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    #8 - Marionettes, Inc.

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/1985

    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.

    Director: Paul Lynch

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Veldt
    6.8/10145 votes
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    #9 - The Veldt

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/1989

    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.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Haunting of the New
    6.7/10129 votes
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    #10 - The Haunting of the New

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/1989

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Earthmen
    6.7/10141 votes
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    #11 - The Earthmen

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1992

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10125 votes
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    #12 - The Concrete Mixer

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1992

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Town Where No One Got Off
    6.5/10222 votes
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    #13 - The Town Where No One Got Off

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/22/1986

    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.

    Director: Don McBrearty

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Emissary
    6.5/10161 votes
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    #14 - The Emissary

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/1988

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

    Director: Sturla Gunnarsson

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Punishment Without Crime
    6.5/10133 votes
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    #15 - Punishment Without Crime

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/16/1988

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

    Director: Bruce McDonald

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Skeleton
    6.4/10144 votes
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    #16 - Skeleton

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/1988

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • There Was an Old Woman
    6.4/10175 votes
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    #17 - There Was an Old Woman

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/1988

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • By the Numbers
    6.4/10109 votes
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    #18 - By the Numbers

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 9/11/1992

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Banshee
    6.3/10207 votes
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    #19 - Banshee

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/22/1986

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.3/10134 votes
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    #20 - And So Died Riabouchinska

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 5/28/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • A Sound of Thunder
    6.3/10116 votes
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    #21 - A Sound of Thunder

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/11/1989

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

    Director: Costa Botes

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
    6.3/10125 votes
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    #22 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/1989

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • The Murderer
    6.3/10137 votes
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    #23 - The Murderer

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/1990

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury

  • Let's Play Poison
    6.3/10115 votes
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    #24 - Let's Play Poison

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1992

    After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Playground
    6.2/10346 votes
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    #25 - The Playground

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/1985

    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.

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Ray Bradbury