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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!

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 best episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" season 6 is "The Earthmen", rated 6.7/10 from 139 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Earthmen" aired on 1/3/1992 and is rated 1.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Zero Hour".

  • The Earthmen
    6.7/10 139 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

  • Zero Hour
    5.6/10 111 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

  • The Jar
    5.5/10 118 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

  • Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    4.8/10 110 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

  • The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10 123 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

  • The Utterly Perfect Murder
    5.8/10 124 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

  • Let's Play Poison
    6.3/10 114 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

  • The Martian
    5.3/10 108 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

  • The Lonely One
    5.6/10 110 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

  • The Happiness Machine
    5.5/10 106 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

  • Tomorrow's Child
    5.9/10 97 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

  • The Anthem Sprinters
    5.8/10 98 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

  • By the Numbers
    6.4/10 109 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

  • The Long Rain
    7.0/10 126 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

  • The Dead Man
    5.5/10 102 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

  • Sun and Shadow
    NaN/10 0 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

  • Silent Towns
    NaN/10 0 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

  • Downwind from Gettysburg
    NaN/10 0 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

  • Some Live Like Lazarus
    NaN/10 0 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

  • The Handler
    NaN/10 0 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

  • Fee Fie Foe Fum
    2.0/10 1 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

  • Great Wide World Over There
    NaN/10 0 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

  • The Tombstone
    NaN/10 0 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