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 - Downwind from Gettysburg
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1992
A robot Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#8 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1992
A man seeks revenge on a bully from his childhood.
#9 - The Wind
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/1989
After he learns their secret, a man is followed by violent winds.
#10 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#18 - The Earthmen
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1992
Members of an expedition to Mars find their insanity questioned by the local inhabitants.
#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 Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1988
A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.
#21 - Skeleton
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/1988
A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.
#22 - Gotcha!
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/1988
A man discovers that his new girlfriend is obsessed with a game called Gotcha!... and will go to any lengths to win.
#23 - The Man Upstairs
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/1988
An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.
#24 - On the Orient, North
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/1988
A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.
#25 - And So Died Riabouchinska
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/28/1988
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.