The Best Episodes Written By Ray Bradbury

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - There Was an Old Woman

   S3:E115/21/1988

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

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   #2 - Design for Loving

   S4:E611/9/1958

   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.

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   #3 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz

   S3:E410/26/1964

   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.

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   #4 - The Coffin

   S3:E95/7/1988

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

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   #5 - The Small Assassin

   S3:E64/9/1988

   A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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   #6 - The Dwarf

   S4:E17/7/1989

   A dwarf uses his writing and the distorted image of a funhouse mirror to escape the prison of his own body, but an evil showman decides to have some fun at the man's expense.

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   #7 - Banshee

   S2:E32/22/1986

   An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

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   #8 - The Crowd

   S1:E37/2/1985

   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.

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   7.1/10(11 votes)

   #9 - I Sing the Body Electric

   S3:E355/18/1962

   A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

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    #10 - Special Delivery

    S5:E1011/29/1959

    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.

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    #11 - The Faith of Aaron Menefee

    S7:E171/30/1962

    When a faith-healer cures a mechanic's stomach ulcer, it leads to love and murder.

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    #12 - On the Orient, North

    S3:E84/30/1988

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

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Playground

    S1:E26/4/1985

    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.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The Town Where No One Got Off

    S2:E12/22/1986

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

    S3:E11/23/1988

    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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    #16 - And So Died Riabouchinska

    S3:E125/28/1988

    A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - And So Died Riabouchinska

    S1:E202/12/1956

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

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Marionettes, Inc.

    S1:E15/21/1985

    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.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

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

    S1:E161/31/1986

    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. 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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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Shopping for Death

    S1:E181/29/1956

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

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - The Screaming Woman

    S2:E22/22/1986

    A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

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    6.0/10(3 votes)

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

    S1:E811/15/1985

    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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    #23 - Skeleton

    S3:E22/6/1988

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

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    #24 - Tyrannosaurus Rex

    S3:E105/14/1988

    A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.

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    #25 - The Emissary

    S3:E32/13/1988

    A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

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