Night Gallery

Rod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.

Cast:Rod Serling , Larry Watson , Joanna Pettet , Matt Pelto , Gary Collins , Susan Strasberg , Geraldine Page , John Astin , Michael Laird , Alan Napier , John J. Fox , John Barclay , Sandra Dee , Jack Laird , Jason Wingreen , Ross Martin , Stuart Whitman , William Windom

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Pilot

Sat, Nov 8, 1969

A seemingly haunted painting drives a greedy man insane. A rich blind woman gets a new pair of eyes that allow her to see for only one brief ironic moment. An idyllic painting gives a Nazi war criminal in hiding some fleeting comfort.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Dead Man/The Housekeeper

Wed, Dec 16, 1970

Dr. Redford's patient John Fearing can mimic any disease's symptoms, and is having an affair with Mrs. Redford. / Cedric Acton, a student of the black arts, plans to replace his cruel wife Carlotta's soul with that of a kind housekeeper.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy

Wed, Dec 23, 1970

Jacob Bauman's nurse figures in his plan to end his wife's infidelity. / A medical bag from the future may improve the fortunes of two bums. / Aghast NASA mission control sees what caused the disappearance of their astronauts on the Moon.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The House/Certain Shadows on the Wall

Wed, Dec 30, 1970

Elaine Latimer has been dreaming of a certain house for years and finally sees it in real life. / Sickly Emma Brigham dies, but her shadow is still visible on one wall of the family mansion.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Make Me Laugh/Clean Kills and Other Trophies

Wed, Jan 6, 1971

A fading comic asks a miracle worker's help in making people laugh. / Big game hunter Colonel Archie Dittman pressures his meek son to take up the sport or be disinherited.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Pamela's Voice/Lone Survivor/The Doll

Wed, Jan 13, 1971

Jonathan's nagging wife Pamela, whom he killed after years of being pushed around by her, haunts him. / In 1915, Allied ship finds a confused man in a lifeboat from the Titanic. / British Army Colonel Masters fights his niece's evil doll.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar/The Last Laurel

Wed, Jan 20, 1971

After years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral projection to exact revenge on his wife Susan and her lover.

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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Return of the Sorcerer

Sun, Sep 24, 1972

Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

Sun, Oct 1, 1972

Photographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new reclusive model that no man can resist.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Fright Night

Sun, Oct 15, 1972

An 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 open a mysterious trunk there that someone will come for. The house starts driving them insane.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Rare Objects

Sun, Oct 22, 1972

Marked for extinction, mobster August Kolodney visits a man who offers him safe sanctuary.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Spectre in Tap-Shoes

Sun, Oct 29, 1972

After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

Sun, Nov 5, 1972

Newly 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 beaten.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please

Sun, Nov 12, 1972

Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet. / A photographer meets a vampire.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Other Way Out

Sun, Nov 19, 1972

Bradley Manning kills a woman who threatened to expose their affair to Bradley's wife. When Bradley returns from vacation, someone threatens him with exposure unless Bradley brings $10,000 to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Finnegan's Flight

Sun, Dec 3, 1972

Charlie Finnegan is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary and longs to escape. Fellow prisoner Pete Tuttle tries to help him, with the aid of his talent for hypnosis.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ She'll Be Company for You

Sun, Dec 24, 1972

After 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 orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Something in the Woodwork

Sun, Jan 14, 1973

Spurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objection.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Death on a Barge

Sun, Mar 4, 1973

A 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 day - in a coffin. She and a local boy fall in love.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Whisper

Sun, May 13, 1973

Irene is a natural medium often unwillingly possessed by lost souls, which starts to worry her young husband Charlie Evans, since she's having more and more trouble controlling them, especially when it comes to one grieving mother.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Doll of Death

Sun, May 20, 1973

During the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway bride Sheila Trent's ex lover Raphael, after she elopes with Raphael.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Hatred Unto Death/How to Cure the Common Vampire

Sun, May 27, 1973

On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson./In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Die Now, Pay Later

Sun, Jun 3, 1973

Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Room for One Less

Sun, Jun 10, 1973

In 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 the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another idea.

50Season 3

S3.E50 ∙ The Sixth Sense: Once Upon a Chilling

Sat, Oct 28, 1972

A doctor who specializes in psychic phenomena attempts to help a young woman that works in a cryogenics lab when she sees terrifying visions of her former boss, a man who was frozen after he suffered a fatal fall.