The Best Episodes Written By Ray Bradbury

Every TV Episode Written by Ray Bradbury Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Crowd

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    S1:E3

    A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

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  2. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Small Assassin

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    S3:E6

    A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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    Director:N/A
  3. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Coffin

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    S3:E9

    An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

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    Director:N/A
  4. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Design for Loving

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    S4:E6

    A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.

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  5. 7.3/10(10 votes)

    #5 - I Sing the Body Electric

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    S3:E35

    A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

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  6. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Marionettes, Inc.

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    John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  7. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Playground

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    S1:E2

    When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.

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  8. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Town Where No One Got Off

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    S2:E1

    A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.

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  9. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Shopping for Death

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    S1:E18

    Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

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  10. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Special Delivery

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    S5:E10

    After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
  11. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz

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    S3:E4

    Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
  12. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - The Double

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    S1:E7

    Episode 7: El doble. A man buys a robot that is a double of himself to replace him with his wife while he pretends to go to the South Seas. But the double has its own interests.

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  13. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Cellar pt. 1

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    S1:E3

    Episode 3: La bodega (1ª parte). First part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury.

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  14. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #14 - The Cellar pt. 2

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    S1:E4

    Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.

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  15. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - The Elevator / To See the Invisible Man / Tooth and Consequences

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    S1:E16

    Two twenty-something brothers go to their father's laboratory to steal his fathers' growth serum research and sell for their own profit. They find a web-like material, which tastes great. They find large plants. Some plants have increased in size more than others. For the crime of emotional coldness, Mitchell Chaplin is condemned to social invisibility. For one year he will be branded with an irremovable brand that everyone knows means they must totally ignore him. At first, Chaplin is thrilled at the prospects. A depressed dentist, Myron Mandel, is visited by the Tooth Fairy, who grants him the wish to be incredibly popular and loved. The wish is granted in full force, and soon Mandel can't handle the endless stream of visitors singing his praises.

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    Director:Noel Black
  16. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Skeleton

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    S3:E2

    A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

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    Director:N/A
  17. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Act Break / The Burning Man / Dealer's Choice

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    S1:E8

    A landlord hounds a playwright named Maury for his rent. When the playwright's partner dies of a heart attack, he wishes he could become the greatest playwright ever. Maury is transported back in time and meets Shakespeare. During a heat wave in the 1930's a mother and her son enjoy a drive in the country. They encounter a strange man who wants a ride. Four friends and a fifth's stand-in get together for a game of poker. The fifth man, Nick, has an uncanny knack for drawing three-of-a-kinds...in 6s. The men figure out that Nick is the Devil, come to claim one of them. The unlucky man offers to play the Devil a game of poker to get his soul free.

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    Director:Wes Craven
  18. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - And So Died Riabouchinska

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    S1:E20

    While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

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  19. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Wait

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    S1:E14

    Episode 14: La espera. The last family of colonists on Mars receive, after many years, the visit of crew from Earth. They knew that family but found that some in that family are the same age as they were many years before.

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  20. 2.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

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    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:N/A

Ray Bradbury Ratings Summary

"The Crowd" is the best rated episode written by Ray Bradbury. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Ralph L. Thomas. It aired on 7/2/1985 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Small Assassin".