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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!

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.

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  1. Background image for Mars Is Heaven
    5.8/10(120 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for The Murderer
    6.3/10(143 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Touched with Fire
    6.1/10(130 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for The Black Ferris
    5.7/10(109 votes)

    #4 - The Black Ferris

    S5:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    5.1/10(113 votes)

    #5 - Usher II

    S5:E5

    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.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
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    5.8/10(112 votes)

    #6 - Touch of Petulance

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    5.4/10(108 votes)

    #7 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright

    S5:E7

    Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

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    5.8/10(107 votes)

    #8 - The Toynbee Convector

    S5:E8

    A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #9 - Exorcism

    S5:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Day It Rained Forever
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    #10 - The Day It Rained Forever

    S5:E10

    In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - The Long Years

    S5:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Here There Be Tygers

    S5:E12

    Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Mars Is Heaven" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" season 5. It scored 5.8/10 based on 120 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 7/20/1990. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Murderer".