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.

Last Updated: 9/10/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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There Was an Old Woman
star
3.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Macdonald
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Downwind from Gettysburg
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3.67
36 votes

#2 - Downwind from Gettysburg

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1992

A robot Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.

Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Touched with Fire
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4.10
41 votes

#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.

Directors: Roger Tompkins
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
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4.44
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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To the Chicago Abyss
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4.65
37 votes

#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.

Directors: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Murderer
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4.68
40 votes

#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.

Directors: Roger Tompkins
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Sun and Shadow
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4.76
38 votes

#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.

Directors: Larry Parr
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Utterly Perfect Murder
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5.38
37 votes

#8 - The Utterly Perfect Murder

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1992

A man seeks revenge on a bully from his childhood.

Directors: Stuart Margolin
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Tomorrow's Child
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5.95
39 votes

#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.

Directors: Costa Botes
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Toynbee Convector
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5.97
39 votes

#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.

Directors: John Laing
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Tyrannosaurus Rex
star
6.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Gilles Behat
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Punishment Without Crime
star
6.00
29 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Macdonald
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Haunting of the New
star
6.03
36 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Roger Tompkins
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Day It Rained Forever
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6.05
42 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Wind
star
6.08
37 votes

#15 - The Wind

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/1989

After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.

Directors: Grahame McLean
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Exorcism
star
6.22
41 votes

#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.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Earthmen
star
6.26
42 votes

#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.

Directors: Graeme Campbell
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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A Miracle of Rare Device
star
6.32
47 votes

#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.

Directors: Roger Tompkins
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Silent Towns
star
6.34
38 votes

#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.

Directors: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Handler
star
6.69
35 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter Sharp
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Great Wide World Over There
star
6.76
37 votes

#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.

Directors: Ian Mune
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Concrete Mixer
star
6.86
42 votes

#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.

Directors: Eleanore Lindo
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
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6.86
35 votes

#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.

Directors: David Copeland
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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Marionettes, Inc.
star
6.89
84 votes

#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.

Directors: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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The Anthem Sprinters
star
6.92
39 votes

#25 - The Anthem Sprinters

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/21/1992

An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event.

Directors: Wayne Tourell
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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