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The Worst Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater

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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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  1. Background image for The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
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    #1 - The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

    S3:E1

    A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.

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    #2 - Gotcha!

    S3:E4

    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
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    #3 - The Man Upstairs

    S3:E5

    An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.

    Director:Unknown
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    #4 - Punishment Without Crime

    S3:E7

    A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

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    #5 - There Was an Old Woman

    S3:E11

    Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.

    Director:Unknown
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    #6 - A Miracle of Rare Device

    S4:E2

    Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.

    Director:Unknown
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    #7 - The Lake

    S4:E3

    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:Unknown
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    #8 - The Wind

    S4:E4

    After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.

    Director:Unknown
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    #9 - The Pedestrian

    S4:E5

    A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

    Director:Unknown
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    #10 - A Sound of Thunder

    S4:E6

    Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

    Director:Costa Botes
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    #11 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

    S4:E7

    When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

    Director:Unknown
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    #12 - The Haunting of the New

    S4:E8

    A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.

    Director:Unknown
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    #13 - To the Chicago Abyss

    S4:E9

    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.

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    #14 - Hail and Farewell

    S4:E10

    Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.

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    #15 - The Veldt

    S4:E11

    Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.

    Director:Brad Turner
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  17. Background image for Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
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    #16 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

    S4:E12

    A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

    Director:Unknown
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    #17 - Mars Is Heaven

    S5:E1

    As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

    Director:Unknown
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    #18 - The Murderer

    S5:E2

    Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.

    Director:Unknown
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    #19 - Touched with Fire

    S5:E3

    Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

    Director:Unknown
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    #20 - The Black Ferris

    S5:E4

    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:Unknown
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    #21 - Usher II

    S5:E5

    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
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    #22 - Touch of Petulance

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

    Director:Unknown
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    #23 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright

    S5:E7

    Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

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    #24 - The Toynbee Convector

    S5:E8

    A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

    Director:Unknown
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    #25 - Exorcism

    S5:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" is the worst rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Gilbert M. Shilton and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 1/23/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gotcha!".