7.5/10178 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10229 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10199 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10154 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10128 votesLoading...#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
6.9/10341 votesLoading...#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
6.9/10138 votesLoading...#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
6.8/10371 votesLoading...#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
6.8/10146 votesLoading...#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
6.7/10129 votesLoading...#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
6.7/10145 votesLoading...#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
6.7/10126 votesLoading...#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
6.5/10227 votesLoading...#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
6.5/10162 votesLoading...#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
6.5/10133 votesLoading...#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
6.4/10145 votesLoading...#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
6.4/10176 votesLoading...#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
6.4/10109 votesLoading...#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
6.3/10209 votesLoading...#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
6.3/10135 votesLoading...#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
6.3/10116 votesLoading...#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
6.3/10126 votesLoading...#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
6.3/10139 votesLoading...#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
6.2/10347 votesLoading...#24 - 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
6.2/10207 votesLoading...#25 - The Screaming Woman
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/1986
A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
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 178 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".