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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
    7.1/10(240 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 Long Rain
    7.1/10(132 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for The Crowd
    6.9/10(360 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Tyrannosaurus Rex
    6.9/10(142 votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for Marionettes, Inc.
    6.8/10(397 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for The Earthmen
    6.7/10(147 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10(129 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for The Emissary
    6.5/10(168 votes)

    #8 - The Emissary

    S3:E3

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

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  10. Background image for Punishment Without Crime
    6.5/10(137 votes)

    #9 - Punishment Without Crime

    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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  11. Background image for There Was an Old Woman
    6.5/10(183 votes)

    #10 - There Was an Old Woman

    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:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Town Where No One Got Off
    6.4/10(239 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Skeleton
    6.4/10(153 votes)

    #12 - Skeleton

    S3:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for Banshee
    6.3/10(217 votes)

    #13 - Banshee

    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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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.3/10(137 votes)

    #14 - And So Died Riabouchinska

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

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for By the Numbers
    6.3/10(111 votes)

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for The Playground
    6.2/10(368 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Screaming Woman
    6.2/10(221 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
    6.2/10(167 votes)

    #19 - The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

    S3:E1

    A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.

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  21. Background image for The Coffin
    6.2/10(136 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Let's Play Poison
    6.2/10(118 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for The Man Upstairs
    6.1/10(162 votes)

    #22 - The Man Upstairs

    S3:E5

    An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.

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

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for Mars Is Heaven
    5.8/10(120 votes)

    #24 - 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
  26. Background image for Touch of Petulance
    5.8/10(112 votes)

    #25 - Touch of Petulance

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Small Assassin" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored 7.1/10 based on 240 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 Long Rain".