The Best Episodes Written By Ray Bradbury
Every TV Episode Written by Ray Bradbury Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Ray Bradbury Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Ray Bradbury is "The Crowd", rated 8/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Ralph L. Thomas". "The Crowd" aired on 7/2/1985 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Small Assassin".
8.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Crowd
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/2/1985
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.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Writer: Ray Bradbury
8.0/10 1 votes#2 - The Small Assassin
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/1988
A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
8.0/10 1 votes#3 - The Coffin
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/1988
An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.2/10 9 votes#4 - I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3 Episode 35 - Aired 5/18/1962
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#5 - Marionettes, Inc.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/1985
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.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#6 - The Playground
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/1985
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.
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#7 - The Town Where No One Got Off
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/22/1986
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.
Director: Don McBrearty
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 2 votes#8 - Shopping for Death
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1956
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#9 - Design for Loving
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1958
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - Special Delivery
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1964
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.5/10 2 votes#12 - The Elevator
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1/31/1986
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. Then they find animals that have also grown in different degrees of magnitude, but they are all dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.0/10 1 votes#13 - Skeleton
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/1988
A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.0/10 2 votes#14 - And So Died Riabouchinska
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1956
While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Ray Bradbury
2.0/10 1 votes#15 - 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