6.7/10141 votes#1 - 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
5.7/10112 votes#2 - Zero Hour
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1992
In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.5/10118 votes#3 - The Jar
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1992
A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.8/10110 votes#4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1992
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10125 votes#5 - 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
5.8/10125 votes#6 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/10115 votes#7 - Let's Play Poison
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/10109 votes#8 - The Martian
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1992
A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.6/10111 votes#9 - The Lonely One
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 7/10/1992
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.
Director: Graeme Campbell
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.6/10107 votes#10 - The Happiness Machine
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 7/17/1992
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.
Director: Don McBrearty
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.9/1097 votes#11 - Tomorrow's Child
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 8/14/1992
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.
Director: Costa Botes, Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.8/1098 votes#12 - The Anthem Sprinters
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 8/21/1992
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.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.4/10109 votes#13 - 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
7.1/10126 votes#14 - 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
5.5/10102 votes#15 - The Dead Man
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 9/26/1992
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.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#16 - Sun and Shadow
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 10/3/1992
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.
Director: Anne Wheeler
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#17 - Silent Towns
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 10/10/1992
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.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 10/17/1992
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.
Director: Costa Botes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#19 - Some Live Like Lazarus
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 10/24/1992
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.
Director: Costa Botes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#20 - The Handler
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 10/27/1992
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
2.0/101 votes#21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 10/28/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#22 - Great Wide World Over There
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 10/29/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
NaN/100 votes#23 - The Tombstone
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 10/30/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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!
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
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"The Earthmen" is the best rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" season 6. It scored 6.7/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/1992. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Zero Hour".