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The Worst Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater

Every episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater!

Worst episode
S6E4 Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties
4.5123 votes
Best episode
S4E2 A Miracle of Rare Device
7.5205 votes
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    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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  2. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 9 - To the Chicago Abyss
    4.6/10(123 votes)

    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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  3. 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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  4. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 5 - Usher II
    5.1/10(126 votes)

    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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  5. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 4 - Gotcha!
    5.4/10(165 votes)

    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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  6. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 3 Episode 8 - On the Orient, North
    5.4/10(154 votes)

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  7. 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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  8. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 7 - And the Moon Be Still as Bright
    5.4/10(126 votes)

    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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  9. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 4 - The Black Ferris
    5.4/10(122 votes)

    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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 10 - Hail and Farewell
    5.5/10(132 votes)

    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 3 - The Lake
    5.5/10(129 votes)

    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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  14. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 6 - Touch of Petulance
    5.5/10(126 votes)

    S5:E6

    A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  15. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 8 - The Toynbee Convector
    5.6/10(123 votes)

    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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  16. 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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  17. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 1 - Mars Is Heaven
    5.7/10(137 votes)

    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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 4 Episode 7 - The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
    5.8/10(142 votes)

    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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. The Ray Bradbury Theater Season 5 Episode 3 - Touched with Fire
    6.0/10(142 votes)

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties" is the worst rated episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater. It scored 4.5/10 from 123 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on January 24, 1992. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "To the Chicago Abyss".

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