
Night Gallery
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Rod Serling returns to anthology television as the host of Night Gallery, a three-season show where each story revolves around a mysterious and ominous painting hanging in an empty gallery. Mr. Serling provides the opening and closing narration to these stories, typically tales of horror and the supernatural. During the first season, the hour-long series features several shorter stories, some of which are comedic blackout sketches. The show was subsequently cut down to a half-hour, and in syndication was mixed with episodes of the TV series The Sixth Sense.
Highest-rated episodes all ranked
- 01The Housekeeper
- 02
EyesA rich recluse Claudia Menlo (Crawford) who has been sightless throughout her life will spare no expense to see. Sidney (Bosley) plays a small time petty hood who owes money and will do anything to get it. Claudia gets Sidney to agree to give up his eyes for the money he needs. Claudia tells her eye doctor that she knows there is an experimental procedure so that she might see again. It turns out that Claudia's doctor is one of only four eye doctors in the world that can perform the risky surgery. In an experimental optic nerve transplant that will give Claudia at most (12) hours to see, but she is not deterred. Claudia doggedly hounds the doctor to acquiesce to her demands and perform the surgery using blackmail. What transpires can only be called, short sighted... - 03
Make Me LaughA failed comedian finds a swami who will grant him one wish.. but things don't go as planned.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01Best season
- S01E01The CemeteryNovember 8, 1969
- S01E02
EyesNovember 8, 1969A rich recluse Claudia Menlo (Crawford) who has been sightless throughout her life will spare no expense to see. Sidney (Bosley) plays a sma - S01E03Escape RouteNovember 8, 1969
- S01E04The Dead ManDecember 16, 1970
- S01E05Season's bestThe HousekeeperDecember 16, 1970
- S01E06
Room with a ViewDecember 23, 1970 - S01E07
The Little Black BagDecember 23, 1970 - S01E08
The Nature of the EnemyDecember 23, 1970 - S01E09The HouseDecember 30, 1970
- S01E10
Certain Shadows on the WallDecember 30, 1970A strange shadow appears on the family homes wall after a woman dies while under her brothers care. - S01E11
Make Me LaughJanuary 6, 1971A failed comedian finds a swami who will grant him one wish.. but things don't go as planned. - S01E12
Clean Kills and Other TrophiesJanuary 6, 1971 - S01E13Pamela's VoiceJanuary 13, 1971A man murders his wife to escape her nagging voice... but discovers that there is no escape.
- S01E14Lone SurvivorJanuary 13, 1971
- S01E15The DollJanuary 13, 1971
- S01E16They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's BarJanuary 20, 1971A desperate businessman tries to escape into the past via a bar that is about to be torn down.
- S01E17The Last LaurelJanuary 20, 1971A handicapped man comes up with a unique way to overcome his adversity.
Season02
- S02E01The Boy Who Predicted EarthquakesSeptember 15, 1971A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster.
- S02E02Miss Lovecraft Sent MeSeptember 15, 1971A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster.
- S02E03The Hand of Borgus WeemsSeptember 15, 1971Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand.
- S02E04Phantom of What Opera?September 15, 1971A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."
- S02E05Death in the FamilySeptember 22, 1971Fleeing thief Doran hides in the funeral home of odd Mr Soames.
- S02E06The MercifulSeptember 22, 1971A wife uses bricks and mortar to help her ill husband.
- S02E07The Class of '99September 22, 1971Vincent Price stars as a professor who gives a strange lecture to his students on human psychology, dealing with the fear of those who are n
- S02E08Witches' FeastSeptember 22, 1971Witches prepare a vile dish.
- S02E09Since Aunt Ada Came to StaySeptember 29, 1971Craig Lowell suspects that his wife's sweet Aunt Ada is actually a sinister witch.
- S02E10With Apologies to Mr. HydeSeptember 29, 1971Igor fails to improve Doctor Jekyll's potion.
- S02E11The Flip-Side of SatanSeptember 29, 1971Callous disc jockey J. J. Wilson finds himself spinning platters at a hellish radio station.
- S02E12A Fear of SpidersOctober 6, 1971Misanthropic Justus Walters is tormented by a spider.
- S02E13JuniorOctober 6, 1971A man brings some water to his unusual son.
- S02E14Season's bestMarmalade WineOctober 6, 1971Braggart Roger Blacker waits out a storm with a mysterious surgeon.
- S02E15The AcademyOctober 6, 1971Jeff Holston checks out a military academy for his wayward son.
- S02E16The Phantom FarmhouseOctober 20, 1971Psychiatrist Joel Winter investigates the claims of his asylum patient, hippie Gideon, that a pretty girl from a nearby farm is killing his
- S02E17Silent Snow, Secret SnowOctober 20, 1971A strange little boy is drawn deeper and deeper into a fantasy world. The Haslemans worry when their son becomes obsessed with snow that's t
- S02E18A Question of FearOctober 27, 1971A fearless colonel bets $10,000 that he can survive one night in a haunted mansion but he learns that the past can haunt you worse than any
- S02E19The Devil Is Not MockedOctober 27, 1971Dracula explains to his grandson how he served his country against the Nazis.
- S02E20Midnight Never EndsNovember 3, 1971Hitch-hiking Marine Vince Riley feels he has met the woman who picks him up before.
- S02E21BrendaNovember 3, 1971During a stay at her family's summer home, friendless Brenda Alden traps a strange creature in a quarry and befriends it.
- S02E22The DiaryNovember 10, 1971A strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future.
- S02E23A Matter of SemanticsNovember 10, 1971Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request.
- S02E24Big SurpriseNovember 10, 1971Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it.
- S02E25Professor Peabody's Last LectureNovember 10, 1971Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian gods.
- S02E26House - with GhostNovember 17, 1971Adulterer takes his wife to a house that's haunted to get rid of her.
- S02E27A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood BankNovember 17, 1971A vampire is repelled by a good excuse.
- S02E28Dr. Stringfellow's RejuvenatorNovember 17, 1971A charlatan sells a fake healing potion in the Old West.
- S02E29Hell's BellsNovember 17, 1971A man who dies in a car accident ends up in his own personal version of hell.
- S02E30The Dark BoyNovember 24, 1971In 19th-century Montana, new village schoolteacher Judith Timm bonds with the specter of Joel Robb, a fourth grader who died in an accident
- S02E31
Keep in Touch - We'll Think of SomethingNovember 24, 1971A man reports his car stolen in order to meet the woman of his dreams, literally, - S02E32Pickman's ModelDecember 1, 1971Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home.
- S02E33The Dear DepartedDecember 1, 1971A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery.
- S02E34An Act of ChivalryDecember 1, 1971When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.
- S02E35Cool AirDecember 8, 1971A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment.
- S02E36Camera ObscuraDecember 8, 1971Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device.
- S02E37Quoth the RavenDecember 8, 1971Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.
- S02E38The Messiah on Mott StreetDecember 15, 1971On Christmas Eve, a young Jewish boy goes out seeking the Messiah to save his dying grandfather.
- S02E39The Painted MirrorDecember 15, 1971Mikey Goldman searches for the Messiah to comfort his dying grandfather Abe.
- S02E40The Different OnesDecember 29, 1971In the near future, a disfigured boy's only chance for a normal life is an exchange program with a newly-discovered alien race.
- S02E41Tell David...December 29, 1971Paul Koch agrees to a unique solution that might help his hideously ugly son find acceptance.
- S02E42Logoda's HeadsDecember 29, 1971When a man goes deep into the jungle in search of his missing brother, he encounters a witch doctor with strange supernatural powers involvi
- S02E43Green FingersJanuary 5, 1972Nasty land developer Mike Saunders is ready to destroy a widow with a green thumb to get her land.
- S02E44The FuneralJanuary 5, 1972Mortician, Morton Silkline arranges a late funeral for an unusual client, Ludwig Asper.
- S02E45The Tune in Dan's CafeJanuary 5, 1972The first segment of Night Gallery Is a funny one, with Werner Klemperer, who is arranging his own funeral. And quite a ceremony it turns ou
- S02E46Lindemann's CatchJanuary 12, 1972A fisherman captures a mermaid... and falls in love with her.
- S02E47The Late Mr. PeddingtonJanuary 12, 1972Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband.
- S02E48A Feast of BloodJanuary 12, 1972Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive.
- S02E49
The Miracle at CamafeoJanuary 19, 1972A supposedly paralyzed man comes to the shrine at Camafeo and gets a demonstration of the power of faith. - S02E50The Ghost of Sorworth PlaceJanuary 19, 1972A Scottish widow turns to an American tourist for protection from the ghost of her husband.
- S02E51
The Waiting RoomJanuary 26, 1972Gunfighter Sam Dichter gets his just desserts in a saloon from which there's no escape. - S02E52Last Rites for a Dead DruidJanuary 26, 1972Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him.
- S02E53Deliveries in the RearFebruary 9, 1972Anatomy teacher John Fletcher, who uses grave robbers to get bodies, learns a lesson.
- S02E54Stop Killing MeFebruary 9, 1972A strange woman goes to the police to report her husband for attempted murder.
- S02E55Dead WeightFebruary 9, 1972Criminal Landau doubts the credentials of aging exporter Bullivant.
- S02E56I'll Never Leave You - EverFebruary 16, 1972Adulterous Moira uses witchcraft to dispose of her sickly husband Owen.
- S02E57There Aren't Any More MacBanesFebruary 16, 1972Arthur Porter threatens to cut off his freeloading nephew, who turns to the occult for revenge and summons a demon.
- S02E58The Sins of the FathersFebruary 23, 1972In ancient Scotland, a young boy is forced to take on his father's role as Sin Eater to keep himself and his mother from starving.
- S02E59You Can't Get Help Like That AnymoreFebruary 23, 1972The Fultons delight in the sadistic torture of their servants, but, may have met their match when a new robot maid arrives.
- S02E60The CaterpillarMarch 1, 1972A dissolute young man lusting after a plantation owner's wife comes up with a plan to infect the owner with a deadly earwig... but his plan
- S02E61Little Girl LostMarch 1, 1972The government plays up to a genius' delusion that his dead daughter still lives so he can finish his experiments even though his mind is st
- S02E62Satisfaction GuaranteedMarch 22, 1972A man goes to a talent agency to find a secretary who will meet his unique tastes.
- S02E63Die Now, Pay LaterSheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.
- S02E64Room for One LessIn an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since
Season03
- S03E01Season's bestThe Return of the SorcererSeptember 24, 1972Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being fla
- S03E02The Girl with the Hungry EyesOctober 1, 1972Photographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new reclusive model that no man can resist.
- S03E03Rare ObjectsOctober 22, 1972A gangster under constant threat of death seeks escape but falls into the wrong hands.
- S03E04Spectre in Tap-ShoesOctober 29, 1972After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the roo
- S03E05You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. MillikanNovember 12, 1972Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead
- S03E06Smile, PleaseNovember 12, 1972A photographer meets a vampire.
- S03E07
The Other Way OutNovember 19, 1972A businessman receives a blackmail note and ends up at a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere... with a vengeful grandfather out to avenge a m - S03E08Fright NightDecember 10, 1972An author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to op
- S03E09
Finnegan's FlightDecember 17, 1972A prison lifer seeking an escape--any escape--proves highly susceptible to hypnotism and wins the ultimate freedom. - S03E10She'll Be Company for YouDecember 24, 1972After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her or
- S03E11The Ring with the Red Velvet RopesJanuary 7, 1973Newly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is taken to a mysterious elite hotel, where he's to fight an old boxing champ that no one has ever beate
- S03E12Something in the WoodworkJanuary 14, 1973Spurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objec
- S03E13Death on a BargeMarch 4, 1973A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the
- S03E14WhisperMay 13, 1973Irene is a natural medium often unwillingly possessed by lost souls, which starts to worry her young husband Charlie Evans, since she's havi
- S03E15The Doll of DeathMay 20, 1973During the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway br
- S03E16Hatred unto DeathMay 27, 1973On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson.
- S03E17How to Cure the Common VampireMay 27, 1973In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.
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