The BEST episodes written by Ray Bradbury

The Town Where No One Got Off
star
9.00
29 votes

#1 - The Town Where No One Got Off

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 4

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.

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The Coffin
star
9.00
29 votes

#2 - The Coffin

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 9

An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.

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The Veldt
star
8.70
33 votes

#3 - The Veldt

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 11

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.

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By the Numbers
star
8.48
40 votes

#4 - By the Numbers

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 5

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.

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The Happiness Machine
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8.46
37 votes

#5 - The Happiness Machine

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 2

One day a man wakes up and decides to build a happiness machine. Much to his wife's dismay it becomes an obsession.

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Usher II
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8.44
39 votes

#6 - Usher II

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 5

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.

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Fee Fie Foe Fum
star
8.42
36 votes

#7 - Fee Fie Foe Fum

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 13

A grandmother becomes worried when her granddaughter's husband installs a new garbage disposal in the house.

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Some Live Like Lazarus
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8.39
36 votes

#8 - Some Live Like Lazarus

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 11

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.

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Hail and Farewell
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8.39
36 votes

#9 - Hail and Farewell

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 10

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.

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The Long Rain
star
8.36
39 votes

#10 - The Long Rain

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 6

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.

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Touch of Petulance
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8.35
40 votes

#11 - Touch of Petulance

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 6

A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

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The Life Work of Juan Diaz
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8.27
11 votes

#12 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 4

Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.

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The Lake
star
8.12
49 votes

#13 - The Lake

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 3

An artist returns to the lake where years before he had a childhood sweetheart who drowned. Now he must try and bring her back.

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The Jar
star
8.12
14 votes

#14 - The Jar

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 17

At a carnival sideshow, a farmer named Charlie Hill buys a strange jar, which brings him notoriety and respect in the community because people travel for miles to gather in his parlor and look at the jar and it's obscure content. But his young wife, Thedy Sue, is frightened of it and insists that he throw it out.

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The Dwarf
star
8.04
50 votes

#15 - The Dwarf

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 1

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.

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The Small Assassin
star
8.00
29 votes

#16 - The Small Assassin

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 6

A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.

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The Screaming Woman
star
8.00
29 votes

#17 - The Screaming Woman

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 5

A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.

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The Elevator
star
7.84
102 votes

#18 - The Elevator

The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 39

Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.

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Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
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7.84
32 votes

#19 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 12

A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.

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Let's Play Poison
star
7.84
38 votes

#20 - Let's Play Poison

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 5 - Episode 7

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

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The Pedestrian
star
7.83
35 votes

#21 - The Pedestrian

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 5

A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.

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The Tombstone
star
7.80
35 votes

#22 - The Tombstone

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 15

A salesman and his wife are forced to take a room where the previous occupant left a tombstone.

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The Dead Man
star
7.76
38 votes

#23 - The Dead Man

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 7

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

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The Playground
star
7.75
61 votes

#24 - The Playground

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 2

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.

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The Lonely One
star
7.72
40 votes

#25 - The Lonely One

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 1

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.

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The Emissary
star
7.72
39 votes

#26 - The Emissary

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 3

A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.

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Zero Hour
star
7.72
39 votes

#27 - Zero Hour

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 5 - Episode 2

A group of 8-year-olds rally around an invisible person who promises them the world.

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The Long Years
star
7.54
39 votes

#28 - The Long Years

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 11

A crew of a spaceship return to Mars after a 20-year absence to discover a scientist and his family unaffected by their stay.

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Here There Be Tygers
star
7.50
38 votes

#29 - Here There Be Tygers

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 12

Unknown to an exploratory team, the Utopia-like world they have discovered has yet to unleash its deadly forces.

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And So Died Riabouchinska
star
7.50
110 votes

#30 - And So Died Riabouchinska

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1 - Episode 20

While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

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The Crowd
star
7.50
54 votes

#31 - The Crowd

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 3

A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.

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A Sound of Thunder
star
7.46
37 votes

#32 - A Sound of Thunder

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 3 - Episode 6

Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.

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And The Moon Be Still as Bright
star
7.44
39 votes

#33 - And The Moon Be Still as Bright

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 7

Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.

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I Sing the Body Electric
star
7.43
218 votes

#34 - I Sing the Body Electric

The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 35

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

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The Jar
star
7.35
40 votes

#35 - The Jar

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 5 - Episode 3

A backwoods man impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar.

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The Burning Man
star
7.26
113 votes

#36 - The Burning Man

The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 19

During a heat wave in the 1930's a mother and her son enjoy a drive in the country. They encounter a strange man who wants a ride.

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The Black Ferris
star
7.12
41 votes

#37 - The Black Ferris

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 4

Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.

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The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
star
7.03
39 votes

#38 - The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 1

A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.

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And So Died Riabouchinska
star
7.00
29 votes

#39 - And So Died Riabouchinska

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 12

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.

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Banshee
star
7.00
29 votes

#40 - Banshee

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 6

An eccentric film director plays pranks on his screenwriter, only to discover the story of a local Banshee is terrifyingly true.

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Skeleton
star
7.00
39 votes

#41 - Skeleton

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 2

A hypochondriac goes to a bone specialist for a cure to his latest ailment.

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Gotcha!
star
7.00
29 votes

#42 - Gotcha!

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 4

A man discovers that his new girlfriend is obsessed with a game called Gotcha!... and will go to any lengths to win.

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The Man Upstairs
star
7.00
29 votes

#43 - The Man Upstairs

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 5

An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.

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On the Orient, North
star
7.00
29 votes

#44 - On the Orient, North

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 2 - Episode 8

A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.

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The Faith of Aaron Menefee
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6.98
40 votes

#45 - The Faith of Aaron Menefee

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 17

When a faith-healer cures a mechanic's stomach ulcer, it leads to love and murder.

The Martian
star
6.97
36 votes

#46 - The Martian

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 5 - Episode 8

New life welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

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Shopping for Death
star
6.93
146 votes

#47 - Shopping for Death

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1 - Episode 18

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

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Mars is Heaven
star
6.93
43 votes

#48 - Mars is Heaven

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 4 - Episode 1

As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.

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The Anthem Sprinters
star
6.92
39 votes

#49 - The Anthem Sprinters

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 6 - Episode 4

An American tourist becomes involved in an Irish sporting event.

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Marionettes, Inc.
star
6.89
84 votes

#50 - Marionettes, Inc.

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 - Episode 1

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.

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