Night Gallery

Night Gallery

Rod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.

Genre: DramaFantasyHorror

Cast:Rod SerlingLarry WatsonJoanna PettetMatt PeltoGary CollinsSusan StrasbergGeraldine PageJohn AstinMichael LairdAlan NapierJohn J. FoxJohn BarclaySandra DeeJack LairdJason WingreenRoss MartinStuart WhitmanWilliam Windom


1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera?

Wed, Sep 15, 1971

A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Witches' Feast

Wed, Sep 22, 1971

Fleeing thief Doran hides in the funeral home of odd Mr Soames. / A wife uses bricks and mortar to help her ill husband. / A college professor administers a chilling oral exam with a dystopian twist. / Witches prepare a vile dish.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay/With Apologies to Mr. Hyde/The Flip-Side of Satan

Wed, Sep 29, 1971

Craig Lowell suspects that his wife's sweet Aunt Ada is actually a sinister witch. / Igor fails to improve Doctor Jekyll's potion. / Callous disc jockey J. J. Wilson finds himself spinning platters at a hellish radio station.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ A Fear of Spiders/Junior/Marmalade Wine/The Academy

Wed, Oct 6, 1971

Misanthropic Justus Walters is tormented by a spider. / A man brings some water to his unusual son. / Braggart Roger Blacker waits out a storm with a mysterious surgeon. / Jeff Holston checks out a military academy for his wayward son.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Phantom Farmhouse/Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Wed, Oct 20, 1971

Psychiatrist Joel Winter investigates the claims of his asylum patient, hippie Gideon, that a pretty girl from a nearby farm is killing his patients./The Haslemans worry when their son becomes obsessed with snow that's talking to him.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ A Question of Fear/The Devil Is Not Mocked

Wed, Oct 27, 1971

A 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 ghost can. Dracula explains to his grandson how he served his country against the Nazis.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Midnight Never Ends/Brenda

Wed, Nov 3, 1971

Hitch-hiking Marine Vince Riley feels he has met the woman who picks him up before. / During a stay at her family's summer home, friendless Brenda Alden traps a strange creature in a quarry and befriends it.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Diary/A Matter of Semantics/Big Surprise/Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

Wed, Nov 10, 1971

A strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future. / Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request. / Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. / Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian gods.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ House - With Ghost/A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank/Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator/Hell's Bells

Wed, Nov 17, 1971

Adulterer takes his wife to a house that's haunted to get rid of her. / A vampire is repelled by a good excuse. / A charlatan sells a fake healing potion in the Old West. / Hippie Randy Miller finds out what eternity in Hell is like.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Dark Boy/Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something

Wed, Nov 24, 1971

In 19th-century Montana, new village schoolteacher Judith Timm bonds with the specter of Joel Robb, a fourth grader who died in an accident years ago. / Composer Eric Sutton has an ulterior motive for asking the police to find a woman.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Pickman's Model/The Dear Departed/An Act of Chivalry

Wed, Dec 1, 1971

Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home. / A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery. / When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven

Wed, Dec 8, 1971

A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Messiah on Mott Street/The Painted Mirror

Wed, Dec 15, 1971

Mikey Goldman searches for the Messiah to comfort his dying grandfather Abe. / Removing paint from an antique mirror, shop owner Frank Standish sees an alien landscape that is used to rid himself of his unwanted partner.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Different Ones/Tell David.../Logoda's Heads

Wed, Dec 29, 1971

Paul Koch agrees to a unique solution that might help his hideously ugly son find acceptance. / A woman asks a couple for directions only to realize they represent her future. / A witch doctor is suspected of murdering an explorer.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Green Fingers/The Funeral/The Tune in Dan's Cafe

Wed, Jan 5, 1972

Nasty land developer Mike Saunders is ready to destroy a widow with a green thumb to get her land. / Morton Silkline arranges a late funeral for an unusual client, Ludwig Asper. / A jukebox in a diner repeatedly plays the same sad song.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Lindemann's Catch/A Feast of Blood/The Late Mr. Peddington

Wed, Jan 12, 1972

A fisherman catches a mermaid and wishes for her to be human. / Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive. / Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Miracle at Camafeo/The Ghost of Sorworth Place

Wed, Jan 19, 1972

A con artist pays the price for faking a recovery from paralysis in front of a Mexican shrine. / A Scottish widow turns to an American tourist for protection from the ghost of her husband.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Waiting Room/Last Rites for a Dead Druid

Wed, Jan 26, 1972

Gunslinger Sam Dichter rests in a saloon with outlaws who await their punishment. / Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Deliveries in the Rear/Stop Killing Me/Dead Weight

Wed, Feb 9, 1972

Anatomy teacher John Fletcher, who uses grave robbers to get bodies, learns a lesson. / A strange woman goes to the police to report her husband for attempted murder. / Criminal Landau doubts the credentials of aging exporter Bullivant.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ I'll Never Leave You - Ever/There Aren't Any More MacBanes

Wed, Feb 16, 1972

Two vignettes about the black arts: Adulterous Morah uses witchcraft to dispose of her sickly husband Owen. / Arthur Porter threatens to cut off his freeloading nephew, who turns to the occult for revenge and summons a demon.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Sins of the Fathers/You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore

Wed, Feb 23, 1972

Famine runs rampant in medieval Wales, forcing terrified young Ian to feast on the sins of deceased Mr. Craighill. / The Fultons delight in the sadistic torture of servants, but, may have met their match when a new robot maid arrives.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Caterpillar/Little Girl Lost

Wed, Mar 1, 1972

Steven Macy lusts after his boss' wife and plans to use an earwig to be rid of him. / The government plays up to a genius' delusion that his dead daughter still lives so he can finish his experiments even though his mind is still clouded.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Satisfaction Guaranteed

Wed, Mar 22, 1972

An employment service has a difficult time fulfilling a customer's request for staff. This segment was sometimes used to replace the controversial "Witches' Feast" segment.