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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.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 4 - Gotcha!
    0.0/10(161 votes)

    #1 - Gotcha!

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  2. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 5 - The Man Upstairs
    0.0/10(181 votes)

    #2 - The Man Upstairs

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  3. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 7 - Punishment Without Crime
    0.0/10(152 votes)

    #3 - Punishment Without Crime

    S3:E7

    A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.

    Director:Bruce MacDonald
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  4. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 2 - A Miracle of Rare Device
    0.0/10(199 votes)

    #4 - A Miracle of Rare Device

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  5. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 3 - The Lake
    0.0/10(128 votes)

    #5 - The Lake

    S4:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  6. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 4 - The Wind
    0.0/10(141 votes)

    #6 - The Wind

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  7. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 5 - The Pedestrian
    0.0/10(171 votes)

    #7 - The Pedestrian

    S4:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  8. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 6 - A Sound of Thunder
    0.0/10(128 votes)

    #8 - A Sound of Thunder

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Costa Botes
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  9. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 7 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
    0.0/10(141 votes)

    #9 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

    S4:E7

    When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  10. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 8 - The Haunting of the New
    0.0/10(148 votes)

    #10 - The Haunting of the New

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  11. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 9 - To the Chicago Abyss
    0.0/10(122 votes)

    #11 - To the Chicago Abyss

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  12. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 10 - Hail and Farewell
    0.0/10(129 votes)

    #12 - Hail and Farewell

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  13. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 11 - The Veldt
    0.0/10(161 votes)

    #13 - The Veldt

    S4:E11

    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.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  14. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 12 - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
    0.0/10(141 votes)

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

    S4:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  15. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 1 - Mars Is Heaven
    0.0/10(136 votes)

    #15 - Mars Is Heaven

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  16. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 2 - The Murderer
    0.0/10(159 votes)

    #16 - The Murderer

    S5:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  17. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 3 - Touched with Fire
    0.0/10(141 votes)

    #17 - Touched with Fire

    S5:E3

    Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  18. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 4 - The Black Ferris
    0.0/10(121 votes)

    #18 - The Black Ferris

    S5:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  19. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 5 - Usher II
    0.0/10(125 votes)

    #19 - Usher II

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Lee Tamahori
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  20. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 6 - Touch of Petulance
    0.0/10(125 votes)

    #20 - Touch of Petulance

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  21. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 7 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    0.0/10(124 votes)

    #21 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright

    S5:E7

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

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  22. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 8 - The Toynbee Convector
    0.0/10(121 votes)

    #22 - The Toynbee Convector

    S5:E8

    A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  23. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 9 - Exorcism
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Exorcism

    S5:E9

    The charming Clara Goodwater has been the president of the town's Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge for as long as anyone can remember. Her nosy rival Elmira Brown is convinced Clara maintains her position through witchcraft and plans to exorcise her at the upcoming Lodge election.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 10 - The Day It Rained Forever
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Day It Rained Forever

    S5:E10

    In a desert town, three old men wait for rain that never comes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 11 - The Long Years
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Long Years

    S5:E11

    A family of Earth colonists was stranded on Mars twenty years ago when they missed the order to evacuate. Now, after their long wait, a ship from Earth arrives to take them home, but the rescuers notice something odd.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Gotcha!" is the worst rated episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater". It scored /10 based on 161 votes. Directed by Brad Turner and written by Ray Bradbury, it aired on 2/20/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Man Upstairs".