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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.
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Exorcism" is the worst rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/2/1990. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Day It Rained Forever".

  • Exorcism
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    #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

  • The Day It Rained Forever
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    #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

  • The Long Years
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    #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

  • Here There Be Tygers
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    #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

  • Sun and Shadow
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    #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

  • Silent Towns
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    #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

  • Downwind from Gettysburg
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    #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

  • Some Live Like Lazarus
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    #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

  • The Handler
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    #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

  • Great Wide World Over There
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    #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

  • The Tombstone
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    #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

  • Fee Fie Foe Fum
    2.0/101 votes
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    #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

  • Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    4.8/10110 votes
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    #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

  • To the Chicago Abyss
    5.0/10108 votes
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    #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

  • The Martian
    5.3/10109 votes
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    #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

  • Gotcha!
    5.4/10136 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Usher II
    5.4/10109 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    5.4/10106 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • On the Orient, North
    5.5/10129 votes
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    #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

  • The Jar
    5.5/10118 votes
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    #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

  • The Dead Man
    5.5/10102 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • The Lake
    5.6/10113 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Lonely One
    5.6/10111 votes
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    #23 - 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
    5.6/10107 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • The Black Ferris
    5.7/10105 votes
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    #25 - The Black Ferris

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/10/1990

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ray Bradbury