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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 Exorcism
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    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Day It Rained Forever
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    #2 - The Day It Rained Forever

    S5:E10

    In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Long Years
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    #3 - The Long Years

    S5:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Here There Be Tygers
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    #4 - Here There Be Tygers

    S5:E12

    Astronauts from Earth land on a remote planet and find a pastoral paradise, where all their wishes come true.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Sun and Shadow

    S6:E16

    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.

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    Director:Anne Wheeler
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    #6 - Silent Towns

    S6:E17

    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.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
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  8. Background image for Downwind from Gettysburg
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    #7 - Downwind from Gettysburg

    S6:E18

    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.

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    Director:Costa Botes
  9. Background image for Some Live Like Lazarus
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    #8 - Some Live Like Lazarus

    S6:E19

    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.

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    Director:Costa Botes
  10. Background image for The Handler
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    #9 - The Handler

    S6:E20

    A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
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    #10 - Great Wide World Over There

    S6:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #11 - The Tombstone

    S6:E23

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  13. Background image for Fee Fie Foe Fum
    2.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

    S6:E21

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    4.4/10(113 votes)

    #13 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties

    S6:E4

    A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Martian
    4.8/10(113 votes)

    #14 - The Martian

    S6:E8

    A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for To the Chicago Abyss
    5.0/10(109 votes)

    #15 - 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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    5.1/10(113 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Lee Tamahori
  18. Background image for Gotcha!
    5.4/10(144 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Brad Turner
  19. Background image for And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    5.4/10(108 votes)

    #18 - 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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    5.4/10(122 votes)

    #19 - The Jar

    S6:E3

    A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for On the Orient, North
    5.5/10(134 votes)

    #20 - On the Orient, North

    S3:E8

    A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Happiness Machine
    5.5/10(111 votes)

    #21 - The Happiness Machine

    S6:E10

    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.

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  23. Background image for The Dead Man
    5.5/10(107 votes)

    #22 - The Dead Man

    S6:E15

    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.

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  24. Background image for The Lake
    5.6/10(114 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Hail and Farewell
    5.6/10(114 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for The Black Ferris
    5.7/10(109 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Exorcism" is the worst rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/2/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Day It Rained Forever".