The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5
Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5!
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.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" season 5 is "Mars Is Heaven", rated 5.9/10 from 116 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Ray Bradbury. "Mars Is Heaven" aired on 7/20/1990 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Murderer".
5.9/10 116 votes#1 - Mars Is Heaven
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/20/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.3/10 136 votes#2 - 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
6.2/10 124 votes#3 - Touched with Fire
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/1990
Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.7/10 105 votes#4 - The Black Ferris
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.4/10 108 votes#5 - Usher II
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 8/17/1990
When the government bans works of fiction, a millionaire rebels and builds a robot haunted house based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe... and plots revenge.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.8/10 107 votes#6 - Touch of Petulance
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1990
A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.4/10 106 votes#7 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1990
Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.8/10 103 votes#8 - The Toynbee Convector
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1990
A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/10 0 votes#9 - Exorcism
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1990
The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#10 - The Day It Rained Forever
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1990
In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#11 - The Long Years
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1990
A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#12 - Here There Be Tygers
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1990
Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A