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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(187 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The Dwarf
    7.2/10(211 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.

    Director:Costa Botes
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  3. Background image for The Small Assassin
    7.1/10(250 votes)

    #3 - The Small Assassin

    S3:E6

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The Pedestrian
    7.1/10(162 votes)

    #4 - The Pedestrian

    S4:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for The Long Rain
    7.1/10(135 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(376 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 Marionettes, Inc.
    6.8/10(424 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Paul Lynch
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  9. Background image for Tyrannosaurus Rex
    6.8/10(149 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Background image for The Veldt
    6.8/10(151 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.

    Director:Brad Turner
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  11. Background image for The Haunting of the New
    6.7/10(138 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Earthmen
    6.7/10(151 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10(132 votes)

    #12 - The Concrete Mixer

    S6:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for The Town Where No One Got Off
    6.5/10(254 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Emissary
    6.5/10(175 votes)

    #14 - The Emissary

    S3:E3

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

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  16. Background image for Punishment Without Crime
    6.5/10(142 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for There Was an Old Woman
    6.5/10(188 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Skeleton
    6.4/10(161 votes)

    #17 - Skeleton

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Banshee
    6.3/10(233 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Coffin
    6.3/10(143 votes)

    #19 - The Coffin

    S3:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Background image for And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.3/10(145 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Background image for A Sound of Thunder
    6.3/10(120 votes)

    #21 - A Sound of Thunder

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Costa Botes
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  23. Background image for Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
    6.3/10(131 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Murderer
    6.3/10(148 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for The Playground
    6.2/10(387 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for The Screaming Woman
    6.2/10(231 votes)

    #25 - 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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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 187 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".