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.

Last Updated: 9/10/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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The Coffin
star
9.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Tom Cotter
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Town Where No One Got Off
star
9.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Don McBrearty
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Veldt
star
8.70
33 votes

#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.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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By the Numbers
star
8.48
40 votes

#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.

Directors: Wayne Tourell
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Happiness Machine
star
8.46
37 votes

#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.

Directors: John Laing
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Usher II
star
8.44
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Fee Fie Foe Fum
star
8.42
36 votes

#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.

Directors: John Reid
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Hail and Farewell
star
8.39
36 votes

#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.

Directors: Alan Kroeker
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Some Live Like Lazarus
star
8.39
36 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter Sharp
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Long Rain
star
8.36
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Touch of Petulance
star
8.35
40 votes

#11 - Touch of Petulance

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1990

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

Directors: John Laing
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Lake
star
8.12
49 votes

#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.

Directors: Pat Robins
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Dwarf
star
8.04
50 votes

#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.

Directors: Costa Botes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Screaming Woman
star
8.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Small Assassin
star
8.00
29 votes

#15 - The Small Assassin

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/1988

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

Directors: Tom Cotter
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
star
7.84
32 votes

#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.

Directors: David Brandes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Let's Play Poison
star
7.84
38 votes

#17 - Let's Play Poison

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/14/1992

A teacher worries that his students are trying to kill him.

Directors: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Pedestrian
star
7.83
35 votes

#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.

Directors: Alin Bollinger
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Tombstone
star
7.80
35 votes

#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.

Directors: Warrick Attewell
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Dead Man
star
7.76
38 votes

#20 - The Dead Man

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/1992

A lonely manicurist befriends a man who claims to be dead.

Directors: Costa Botes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Playground
star
7.75
61 votes

#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.

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Lonely One
star
7.72
40 votes

#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.

Directors: Ian Mune
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Emissary
star
7.72
39 votes

#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.

Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Zero Hour
star
7.72
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Don McBrearty
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Long Years
star
7.54
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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