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The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6

Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6!

The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6

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. 7.1/10(132 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 6.7/10(147 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 6.7/10(129 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 6.3/10(111 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 6.2/10(118 votes)

    #5 - Let's Play Poison

    S6:E7

    After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

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  6. 5.9/10(100 votes)

    #6 - Tomorrow's Child

    S6:E11

    An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.

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  8. 5.8/10(129 votes)

    #7 - The Utterly Perfect Murder

    S6:E6

    As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

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  9. 5.8/10(101 votes)

    #8 - The Anthem Sprinters

    S6:E12

    An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.

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  10. 5.7/10(115 votes)

    #9 - Zero Hour

    S6:E2

    In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

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  11. 5.7/10(115 votes)

    #10 - The Lonely One

    S6:E9

    After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.

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  12. 5.5/10(111 votes)

    #11 - The Happiness Machine

    S6:E10

    A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.

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  13. 5.5/10(107 votes)

    #12 - The Dead Man

    S6:E15

    A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.

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  14. 5.4/10(122 votes)

    #13 - The Jar

    S6:E3

    A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

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  15. 4.8/10(112 votes)

    #14 - The Martian

    S6:E8

    A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

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  16. 4.4/10(113 votes)

    #15 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

    S6:E4

    A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.

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  17. 2.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

    S6:E21

    A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.

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    #17 - Sun and Shadow

    S6:E16

    An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.

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    Director:Anne Wheeler
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    #18 - Silent Towns

    S6:E17

    A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
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    #19 - Downwind from Gettysburg

    S6:E18

    Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.

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    Director:Costa Botes
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    #20 - Some Live Like Lazarus

    S6:E19

    A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.

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    #21 - The Handler

    S6:E20

    A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
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    #22 - Great Wide World Over There

    S6:E22

    Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.

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    #23 - The Tombstone

    S6:E23

    A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The Long Rain" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" season 6. It scored 7.1/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by Stuart Margolin and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 9/19/1992. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Earthmen".