Night Gallery
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.
Seasons
1. The Dead Man / The House Keeper
Air Date: 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.
2. Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
Air Date: 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.
3. The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
Air Date: 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.
4. Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
Air Date: 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.
5. Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
Air Date: 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.
6. They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
Air Date: 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.
1. The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
Air Date: 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.
2. A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
Air Date: 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.
3. Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
Air Date: 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.
4. A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
Air Date: 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.
5. The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Air Date: 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.
6. A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
Air Date: 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.
7. Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
Air Date: 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.
8. The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
Air Date: 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.
9. House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
Air Date: 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.
10. The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
Air Date: 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.
11. Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
Air Date: 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.
12. Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
Air Date: 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.
13. The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror
Air Date: 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.
14. The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
Air Date: 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.
15. Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
Air Date: 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.
16. Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
Air Date: 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.
17. The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
Air Date: 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.
18. The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
Air Date: 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.
19. Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
Air Date: 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.
20. I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
Air Date: 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.
21. The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
Air Date: 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.
22. The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
Air Date: 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.
1. The Return of the Sorcerer
Air Date: 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.
2. The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Air Date: 1972-10-01
A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.
3. Rare Objects
Air Date: 1972-10-22
A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.
4. Spectre in Tap-Shoes
Air Date: 1972-10-29
After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.
5. You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
Air Date: 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.
6. The Other Way Out
Air Date: 1972-11-19
Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.
7. Fright Night
Air Date: 1972-12-10
Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.
8. Finnegan's Flight
Air Date: 1972-12-17
A prisoner for life yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter, with tragic results.
9. She'll Be Company for You
Air Date: 1972-12-24
After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.
10. The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Air Date: 1973-01-07
The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.
11. Something in the Woodwork
Air Date: 1973-01-14
A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.
12. Death on a Barge
Air Date: 1973-03-04
A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.
13. Whisper
Air Date: 1973-05-13
A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.
14. The Doll of Death
Air Date: 1973-05-20
A spurned plantation owner in the British West Indies enlists the power of voodoo to avenge himself against a romantic rival.
15. Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
Air Date: 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.
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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
1970-12-16
Episodes
43 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
Universal Television