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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 A Miracle of Rare Device
    7.5/10(180 votes)

    #1 - A Miracle of Rare Device

    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:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Dwarf
    7.2/10(201 votes)

    #2 - The Dwarf

    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
  3. Background image for The Small Assassin
    7.1/10(241 votes)

    #3 - The Small Assassin

    S3:E6

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Pedestrian
    7.1/10(156 votes)

    #4 - The Pedestrian

    S4:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Long Rain
    7.1/10(132 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for The Crowd
    6.9/10(360 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Tyrannosaurus Rex
    6.9/10(142 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Marionettes, Inc.
    6.8/10(398 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 Veldt
    6.8/10(148 votes)

    #9 - The Veldt

    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
  11. Background image for The Haunting of the New
    6.7/10(131 votes)

    #10 - The Haunting of the New

    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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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Earthmen
    6.7/10(148 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10(129 votes)

    #12 - 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
  14. Background image for The Emissary
    6.5/10(168 votes)

    #13 - The Emissary

    S3:E3

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

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

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for The Town Where No One Got Off
    6.4/10(240 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Skeleton
    6.4/10(153 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 There Was an Old Woman
    6.4/10(183 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for Banshee
    6.3/10(219 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.3/10(138 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for A Sound of Thunder
    6.3/10(117 votes)

    #20 - A Sound of Thunder

    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
  22. Background image for Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
    6.3/10(128 votes)

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

    S4:E12

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

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

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for By the Numbers
    6.3/10(111 votes)

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for The Screaming Woman
    6.2/10(222 votes)

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

    #25 - 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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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 180 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 7/14/1989. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Dwarf".