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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. Background image for The Small Assassin
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Small Assassin

    S3:E6

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Coffin
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Coffin

    S3:E9

    An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Screaming Woman
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Screaming Woman

    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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  4. Background image for The Long Rain
    7.1/10(132 votes)

    #4 - The Long Rain

    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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  5. Background image for The Town Where No One Got Off
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - The Town Where No One Got Off

    S2:E1

    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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  6. Background image for On the Orient, North
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - On the Orient, North

    S3:E8

    A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Crowd
    6.9/10(363 votes)

    #7 - The Crowd

    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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  9. Background image for Marionettes, Inc.
    6.8/10(404 votes)

    #8 - Marionettes, Inc.

    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
  10. Background image for The Earthmen
    6.7/10(147 votes)

    #9 - The Earthmen

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10(129 votes)

    #10 - The Concrete Mixer

    S6:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Murderer
    6.3/10(143 votes)

    #11 - The Murderer

    S5:E2

    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:Unknown
  13. Background image for By the Numbers
    6.3/10(111 votes)

    #12 - By the Numbers

    S6:E13

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

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Playground
    6.2/10(372 votes)

    #13 - The Playground

    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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  15. Background image for Let's Play Poison
    6.2/10(117 votes)

    #14 - Let's Play Poison

    S6:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Touched with Fire
    6.1/10(130 votes)

    #15 - Touched with Fire

    S5:E3

    Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for Skeleton
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Skeleton

    S3:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for Tyrannosaurus Rex
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Tyrannosaurus Rex

    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:Unknown
  19. Background image for Mars Is Heaven
    5.8/10(120 votes)

    #18 - Mars Is Heaven

    S5:E1

    As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for Touch of Petulance
    5.8/10(111 votes)

    #19 - Touch of Petulance

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Toynbee Convector
    5.8/10(108 votes)

    #20 - The Toynbee Convector

    S5:E8

    A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Utterly Perfect Murder
    5.8/10(128 votes)

    #21 - The Utterly Perfect Murder

    S6:E6

    As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Tomorrow's Child
    5.8/10(101 votes)

    #22 - Tomorrow's Child

    S6:E11

    An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.

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  24. Background image for The Black Ferris
    5.7/10(109 votes)

    #23 - The Black Ferris

    S5:E4

    Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Zero Hour
    5.7/10(115 votes)

    #24 - Zero Hour

    S6:E2

    In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Lonely One
    5.7/10(115 votes)

    #25 - The Lonely One

    S6:E9

    After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Small Assassin" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 4/9/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Coffin".