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The Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6

Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 14 - The Long Rain
    7.1/10(143 votes)

    S6:E14

    When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.

    Director:Stuart Margolin
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  2. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 1 - The Earthmen
    6.7/10(160 votes)

    S6:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 5 - The Concrete Mixer
    6.7/10(138 votes)

    S6:E5

    A Martian's reluctance to attack Earth stems from what he read in his alien comic books.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 7 - Let's Play Poison
    6.1/10(128 votes)

    S6:E7

    After witnessing a student's accidental death because of bullying, a teacher vows to put children in their place but they plan to do the same to him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 13 - By the Numbers
    5.9/10(123 votes)

    S6:E13

    The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  6. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 11 - Tomorrow's Child
    5.8/10(110 votes)

    S6:E11

    An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.

    Directors:Costa Botes, Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  7. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 2 - Zero Hour
    5.7/10(127 votes)

    S6:E2

    In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named "Drill" to play a game called "Invasion".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 6 - The Utterly Perfect Murder
    5.7/10(138 votes)

    S6:E6

    As a boy, piano prodigy, Douglas, was tormented by a gang of bullies, led by Ralph. Now, fifty years later, Doug looks for closure in his life, by traveling back to his hometown and getting his revenge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 9 - The Lonely One
    5.7/10(128 votes)

    S6:E9

    After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.

    Director:Graeme Campbell
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  10. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 12 - The Anthem Sprinters
    5.7/10(113 votes)

    S6:E12

    An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  11. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 3 - The Jar
    5.4/10(134 votes)

    S6:E3

    A farmer impresses the townsfolk with a mysterious jar bought from a traveling carnival sideshow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 10 - The Happiness Machine
    5.4/10(121 votes)

    S6:E10

    A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  13. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 15 - The Dead Man
    5.4/10(118 votes)

    S6:E15

    A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  14. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 8 - The Martian
    4.8/10(122 votes)

    S6:E8

    A Martian welcomes grieving parents who move to Mars.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 4 - Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
    4.5/10(123 votes)

    S6:E4

    A boy and a neighbor invent a fake mummy to stir up the townspeople and relieve the boredom of the last days of summer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 21 - Fee Fie Foe Fum
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    S6:E21

    A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  17. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 16 - Sun and Shadow
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E16

    An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.

    Director:Anne Wheeler
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  18. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 17 - Silent Towns
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E17

    A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.

    Director:Lee Tamahori
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  19. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 18 - Downwind from Gettysburg
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E18

    Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.

    Director:Costa Botes
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  20. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 19 - Some Live Like Lazarus
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E19

    A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.

    Director:Costa Botes
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  21. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 20 - The Handler
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E20

    A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.

    Director:Lee Tamahori
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  22. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 22 - Great Wide World Over There
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E22

    Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  23. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 6 Episode 23 - The Tombstone
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E23

    A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The Long Rain" is the best rated episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater season 6. It scored 7.1/10 from 143 votes. Directed by Stuart Margolin and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on September 19, 1992. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Earthmen".