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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. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 9 - Exorcism
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 10 - The Day It Rained Forever
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - The Day It Rained Forever

    S5:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 11 - The Long Years
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 12 - Here There Be Tygers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 16 - Sun and Shadow
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Anne Wheeler
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  6. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 17 - Silent Towns
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Lee Tamahori
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  7. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Costa Botes
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  8. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 19 - 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.

    Director:Costa Botes
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  9. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 20 - The Handler
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Lee Tamahori
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  10. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 22 - Great Wide World Over There
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  11. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 23 - The Tombstone
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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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  12. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
    2.0/10(2 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  13. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    4.8/10(117 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 9 - To the Chicago Abyss
    5.0/10(116 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  15. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 5 - Usher II
    5.1/10(121 votes)

    #15 - 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
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  16. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 8 - The Martian
    5.1/10(117 votes)

    #16 - The Martian

    S6:E8

    A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 4 - Gotcha!
    5.4/10(154 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.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  18. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 8 - On the Orient, North
    5.4/10(145 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  19. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 3 - The Jar
    5.4/10(126 votes)

    #19 - The Jar

    S6:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 10 - Hail and Farewell
    5.5/10(119 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  21. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 7 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    5.5/10(119 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  22. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 10 - The Happiness Machine
    5.5/10(115 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  23. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 15 - The Dead Man
    5.5/10(111 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  24. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 3 - The Lake
    5.6/10(121 votes)

    #24 - 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
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  25. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 4 - The Black Ferris
    5.7/10(117 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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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".