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Night Gallery
1970 - 1973 7.8 (99 votes) 3 Seasons
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Genres
Drama Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
NBC
Created By
Rod Serling

Night Gallery

Overview

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

Key Crew

Producer: Jack Laird, John Badham, Herbert Wright, Paul Freeman

Top Cast

Rod Serling
Rod Serling

Self - Host

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (1969)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Cemetary / Eyes / Escape Route
1969-11-08

Pilot episode containing the first three stories. After murdering his uncle, a man is haunted by a family painting which keeps changing. A blind woman undergoes an operation that gives her 12 hours of eyesight. A fugitive Nazi faces the consequences of his past actions.

Runtime: 99 min
Episode 2: Die Now, Pay Later
1972-03-16

An undertaker holds a clearance sale to get rid of excess stock, but is surprised when the local sheriff points out that there has been a subsequent rise in the number of "accidental" deaths.

Runtime: 14 min
Episode 3: Room for One Less
1972-03-19

A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners.

Runtime: 1 min
Episode 4: Satisfaction Guaranteed
1972-03-22

An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 5: Revisiting the Gallery: A Look Back
1972-03-25

Interviews with some of the people who worked on the show. They discuss Rod Serling, producer/director/writer Jack Laird, and what it was like working for them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: NBC Night Gallery TV Promos
1972-03-29

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Art Gallery: The Paintings in Rod Serling's Night Gallery
1972-04-01

interview with Tom Wright, the artist who did all of the paintings used for the show. He talks about the process of getting the paintings done for each story and who he used as models.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 1: The First Season
2021-11-23

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.

Runtime: 58 min
Episode 9: The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 2: The Second Season
2022-07-26

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.

Runtime: 66 min
Episode 10: The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 3: The Third Season
2022-11-22

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.

Runtime: 55 min
Episode 11: Die Now, Pay Later / Room for One Less / Witches Feast / Little Girl Lost
1971-09-22

An undertaker slashes funeral prices at a January clearance sale. A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners. A group of witches goes through a menu. A scientific genius is troubled by the death of his daughter.

Runtime: 43 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1970)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Dead Man / The House Keeper
1970-12-16

An experiment in hypnosis leads to a terrifying conclusion when a physician attempts to revive his subject from death. A dabbler in black magic schemes to switch his rich wife's cold persona for a warm, loving soul.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 2: Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
1970-12-23

An invalid husband plots revenge against his faithless wife with the unwitting aid of his nurse. Miraculous healing, and abrupt tragedy, result when a 21st century medical bag falls into the hands of a discredited 20th century doctor. Mission control scientists watch helplessly when members of a lunar expedition are mysteriously attacked.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 3: The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
1970-12-30

A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life, but never dared enter, in a recurring dream. An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 4: Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
1971-01-06

A desperate comic makes a deal with an inept miracle worker in a ploy to boost his sagging career. A fanatical big-game hunter forces his son to shoot a deer, inviting the vengeance of terrible gods.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 5: Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
1971-01-13

A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped. A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled "Titanic", three years after the liner sank. A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 6: They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
1971-01-20

A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past. Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.

Runtime: 51 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1971)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
1971-09-15

A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 2: A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
1971-09-22

Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. A brief incantation in verse while a coven hungrily awaits an overdue member.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 3: Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
1971-09-29

A college professor suspects that his visiting aunt is an ancient witch--with designs on inhabiting his wife's body. Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion. A callous disc jockey is offered up as a hellish sacrifice at a deserted radio station.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 4: A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
1971-10-06

An arachnophobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy, and obstinate, little guest crawling in his kitchen sink. A mother and father learn the hardships of parenting. A careless braggart foolishly exaggerates his meager talents to a crackpot surgeon. A widower investigates an unusually strict military academy for his delinquent son.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 5: The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
1971-10-20

A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 6: A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
1971-10-27

An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 7: Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
1971-11-03

A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences. A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 8: The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
1971-11-10

A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 9: House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
1971-11-17

A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 10: The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
1971-11-24

A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader. A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 11: Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
1971-12-01

A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 12: Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
1971-12-08

A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 13: The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror
1971-12-15

Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 14: The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
1971-12-29

In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 15: Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
1972-01-05

An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 16: Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
1972-01-12

A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 17: The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
1972-01-19

An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 18: The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
1972-01-26

A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 19: Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
1972-02-09

A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 20: I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
1972-02-16

The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts. A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 21: The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
1972-02-23

A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 22: The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
1972-03-01

A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.

Runtime: 51 min
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Season 3 (1972)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Return of the Sorcerer
1972-09-24

A sorcerer hires a translator to divine the meaning of an ancient Arabic manuscript that has some grisly connection with his twin brother's death.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 2: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
1972-10-01

A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 3: Rare Objects
1972-10-22

A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 4: Spectre in Tap-Shoes
1972-10-29

After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 5: You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
1972-11-12

A bungling inventor and his forgetful wife pool their ineptitude for an experiment in immortality. A vignette about a woman who tries to photograph a vampire.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 6: The Other Way Out
1972-11-19

Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 7: Fright Night
1972-12-10

Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 8: Finnegan's Flight
1972-12-17

A prisoner for life yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter, with tragic results.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 9: She'll Be Company for You
1972-12-24

After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 10: The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
1973-01-07

The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 11: Something in the Woodwork
1973-01-14

A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 12: Death on a Barge
1973-03-04

A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 13: Whisper
1973-05-13

A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 14: The Doll of Death
1973-05-20

A spurned plantation owner in the British West Indies enlists the power of voodoo to avenge himself against a romantic rival.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 15: Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
1973-05-27

Blood memories surface when an anthropologist responds in kind to a captive gorilla's primeval hatred. Two men debate the best way to kill vampires.

Runtime: 26 min

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