The BEST episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater
Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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.
#1 - The Coffin
Season 2 - 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.
#2 - The Town Where No One Got Off
Season 1 - Episode 4 - 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.
#3 - The Veldt
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/1989
Two parents begin to worry when their children's high-tech holographic nursery fixates on a single landscape: an African veldt filled with savage lions.
#4 - By the Numbers
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/11/1992
On a train, a man learns the truth about about a boy and his drill sergeant father that he met years ago at a hotel pool.
#5 - The Happiness Machine
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/1992
One day a man wakes up and decides to build a happiness machine. Much to his wife's dismay it becomes an obsession.
#6 - Usher II
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/17/1990
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.
#7 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/28/1992
A grandmother becomes worried when her granddaughter's husband installs a new garbage disposal in the house.
#8 - Hail and Farewell
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/29/1989
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.
#9 - Some Live Like Lazarus
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/24/1992
A boy and girl fall in love as children, and vow to marry when they're 21. However, the boy's dominating mother has other plans.
#10 - The Long Rain
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/1992
When a spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet.
#11 - Touch of Petulance
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1990
A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.
#12 - The Lake
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/1989
An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.
#13 - The Dwarf
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/1989
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.
#14 - The Screaming Woman
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/1986
A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.
#15 - The Small Assassin
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/1988
A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.
#16 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/1989
A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.
#17 - Let's Play Poison
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/14/1992
A teacher worries that his students are trying to kill him.
#18 - The Pedestrian
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/1989
A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.
#19 - The Tombstone
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/30/1992
A salesman and his wife are forced to take a room where the previous occupant left a tombstone.
#20 - The Dead Man
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/1992
A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Lonely One
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/1992
Three women try to decide whether to walk to a movie since there is a serial killer on the loose. Although her companions disagree, one of the women insists.
#23 - The Emissary
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/1988
A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.
#24 - Zero Hour
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1992
A group of 8-year-olds rally around an invisible person who promises them the world.
#25 - The Long Years
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1990
A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.