The Worst Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater
Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater!
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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" is "Exorcism", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Exorcism" aired on 11/2/1990 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Day It Rained Forever".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - 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#2 - 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#3 - 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#4 - 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
NaN/10 0 votes#5 - 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/10 0 votes#6 - 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/10 0 votes#7 - 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/10 0 votes#8 - 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/10 0 votes#9 - 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
NaN/10 0 votes#10 - 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/10 0 votes#11 - 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
2.0/10 1 votes#12 - 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
4.8/10 110 votes#13 - 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
5.1/10 107 votes#14 - To the Chicago Abyss
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 9/22/1989
In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.3/10 108 votes#15 - 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
5.4/10 108 votes#16 - 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
5.4/10 106 votes#17 - 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
5.5/10 135 votes#18 - Gotcha!
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/1988
A man discovers that his new girlfriend is obsessed with a game called Gotcha!... and will go to any lengths to win.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.5/10 128 votes#19 - On the Orient, North
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/1988
A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
5.5/10 118 votes#20 - 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
5.5/10 106 votes#21 - 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
5.5/10 102 votes#22 - 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
5.6/10 111 votes#23 - 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
5.6/10 110 votes#24 - 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
5.7/10 111 votes#25 - The Lake
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/1989
An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury