The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)

Name: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Ray Bradbury

Drama · Fantasy · Horror

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.

IMDb rating: 7.3 (2,002 votes)
Episode average: 6.0 -1.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Ray Bradbury Self - Introduction

Seasons

Season 1 (1985)

6.62 avg 6 episodes 6.7 → 6.2 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Marionettes, Inc.	6.7	459
2	The Playground	6.1	422
3	The Crowd	6.9	403
4	The Town Where No One Got Off	7.0	443
5	The Screaming Woman	6.8	365
6	Banshee	6.2	325

Season 2 (1988)

5.82 avg 12 episodes 6.4 → 4.7 25 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl	6.4	272
2	Skeleton	6.1	251
3	The Emissary	6.3	246
4	Gotcha!	6.1	273
5	The Man Upstairs	5.8	212
6	The Small Assassin	5.7	217
7	Punishment Without Crime	5.5	197
8	On the Orient, North	5.7	185
9	The Coffin	7.1	262
10	Tyrannosaurus Rex	4.7	200
11	There Was an Old Woman	5.7	207
12	And So Died Riabouchinska	4.7	173

Season 3 (1989)

6.25 avg 12 episodes 6.2 → 6.2 24 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Dwarf	6.2	195
2	A Miracle of Rare Device	6.4	174
3	The Lake	6.5	190
4	The Wind	5.4	164
5	The Pedestrian	6.1	190
6	A Sound of Thunder	7.0	271
7	The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone	6.4	153
8	The Haunting of the New	5.4	153
9	To the Chicago Abyss	6.2	158
10	Hail and Farewell	6.8	162
11	The Veldt	6.4	209
12	Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!	6.2	161

Season 4 (1990)

6.27 avg 12 episodes 7.2 → 6.3 23 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mars Is Heaven	7.2	223
2	The Murderer	7.5	205
3	Touched with Fire	5.5	129
4	The Black Ferris	6.1	147
5	Usher II	7.1	173
6	Touch of Petulance	6.2	131
7	And the Moon Be Still as Bright	5.8	142
8	The Toynbee Convector	6.6	149
9	Exorcism	4.6	123
10	The Day It Rained Forever	5.5	132
11	The Long Years	6.8	162
12	Here There Be Tygers	6.3	142

Season 5 (1992)

5.61 avg 8 episodes 5.7 → 5.6 23 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Earthmen	5.7	137
2	Zero Hour	6.2	161
3	The Jar	6.0	142
4	Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties	5.4	122
5	The Concrete Mixer	5.1	126
6	The Utterly Perfect Murder	5.5	126
7	Let's Play Poison	5.4	126
8	The Martian	5.6	122

Season 6 (1992)

5.77 avg 15 episodes 6.7 → 5.3 23 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Lonely One	6.7	159
2	The Happiness Machine	5.7	127
3	Tomorrow's Child	5.4	134
4	The Anthem Sprinters	4.5	123
5	By the Numbers	6.7	138
6	The Long Rain	5.7	138
7	The Dead Man	6.1	128
8	Sun and Shadow	4.8	122
9	Silent Towns	5.7	128
10	Downwind from Gettysburg	5.4	121
11	Some Live Like Lazarus	5.8	110
12	The Handler	5.7	113
13	Fee Fie Foe Fum	5.9	123
14	Great Wide World Over There	7.1	143
15	The Tombstone	5.3	118