The WORST episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater
Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - There Was an Old Woman
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/1988
Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.
#2 - Downwind from Gettysburg
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1992
A robot Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
#3 - Touched with Fire
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/1990
Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
#4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1992
A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.
#5 - To the Chicago Abyss
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/22/1989
In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
#6 - The Murderer
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/1990
Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.
#7 - Sun and Shadow
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/1992
A local man protests when a rude director attempts to use his house for the backdrop of a liquor commercial.
#8 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1992
A man seeks revenge on a bully from his childhood.
#9 - Tomorrow's Child
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/14/1992
A malfunctioning birth machine that teleports the baby out of the womb transforms a child into a fourth-dimensional being.
#10 - The Toynbee Convector
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1990
A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.
#11 - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/1988
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.
#12 - Punishment Without Crime
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/16/1988
A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.
#13 - The Day It Rained Forever
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1990
The music of a free-spirited woman brings rain to a town suffering from drought.
#14 - The Wind
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/1989
After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.
#15 - The Haunting of the New
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/1989
A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.
#16 - Exorcism
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1990
A woman takes a potion to rid herself of the influence of her next-door neighbor, who she believes has bewitched her.
#17 - The Earthmen
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1992
Members of an expedition to Mars find their insanity questioned by the local inhabitants.
#18 - A Miracle of Rare Device
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/1989
Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.
#19 - Silent Towns
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1992
The last man on Mars after an evacuation seeks the last woman on Mars.
#20 - The Handler
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/27/1992
A mortician sends the townspeople who mocked and insulted him to their graves with a little something extra.
#21 - Great Wide World Over There
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/29/1992
An illiterate woman asks her nephew to write letters for her so she can talk to all the people in the world that she's never seen.
#22 - The Concrete Mixer
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1992
A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.
#23 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/1989
When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Anthem Sprinters
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/21/1992
An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event.