Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

daleja-dale This great show did indeed fail to live up to its potential! It may have been as successful as Rod Serling's Twilight Zone have not the execs at Universal not order the time and format changed, and if Jack Laird not put in all those ridiculous short stories which didn't belong on the show! So, for the sack of compensation, I rated the series 10 stars instead of 9 which I would have giving it! Anyway, this was a great series, much like the Zone and my other favorite show The Outer Limits 1963! Some of my favorite stories include: "The Dead Man", "the Little Black Bag","Camera Obscura", "Cool Air", "the Caterpillar", and many more! May least favorite include: Jack Lairds comedic shorts (doesn't belong there), "Lindamenn's Catch"( annoying characters in it), "She Be Coming for You", "Nature of the Enemy", "the Big Supriase", etc.! And another reason why I am compensating this series is because of the butchering of the shows in syndication, I recommend watching only the original un-edited versions of this show!

paulbehrer22173 I've recently purchased the first and second seasons of Night Gallery on DVD and viewed them, and I have to admit that even after almost 40 years since the 3-segment pilot film, and the series itself, aired, it's still able to not only fill one's imagination with visions of all sorts of horrors, but also deals in sci-fi, fantasy, and nostalgia. 3 Bond Girls appeared here in this series: Martine Beswick (1 appearance, in the segment The Last Laurel, based on the short story The Horsehair Trunk by Davis Grubb, author of The Night of the Hunter), Lana Wood (1 appearance, in the segment You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore, where Wood appears as Model 931, a domestic android from Robot Aids, Inc who develops survival instincts which she uses against her abusive employers the Fultons, played by Broderick Crawford and Cloris Leachman), and Joanna Pettet (4 appearances in the series which are in the following order: the segment adapted by Rod Serling from the Andre Maurois short story The House, aired with its follow-up segment Certain Shadows on the Wall, which Serling adapted from the Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman short story The Shadows on the Wall, on December 30, 1970, Keep in Touch--We'll Think of Something, aired after The Dark Boy on November 24, 1971, The Caterpillar, aired on March 1, 1972, which was adapted by Serling from the short story Boomerang by Oscar Cook, which appeared in the anthology Switch on the Light, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson and published by Selwyn and Blount in London in 1931, and the segment adapted from the Fritz Leiber, Jr. short story The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Robert Malcolm Young, which was aired on October 1, 1972). John Astin and Geraldine Page had 3 appearances apiece, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price, Leslie Nielsen, Louise Sorel, and several other actors and actresses had 2 appearances here, with Bradford Dillman, Grayson Hall, and several others appearing in 1 segment for each season. I'm eagerly awaiting the 3rd season's release on DVD. It's simply a thought that I wished to express, nothing else. There aren't any spoilers present in this comment whatsoever.

FloatingOpera7 The Night Gallery (1970-1973): Starring Rod Serling, John Astin, Michael Laird, Larry Watson, Joanna Pettet, Matt Pelto, Alan Napier, Jack Laird, Geraldine Page, John J. Fox, Burgess Meredith, Jeff Corey, Jeanette Nolan, James Sikking, Cathleen Cordell, Arthur Malet, Josehph Campanella, Jason Wingreen, Albert Popwell, Louise Sorel, Roger E. Mosley, Raymond Massey, Susan Strasberg, Leif Ericson, John Williams, William Windom, Terence Pushman, James Farentino, Ivor Francis, Bill Quinn, Ross Martin, Lindsay Wagner, Charles Davis, Leslie Nielsen, Patricia Donahue, Victor Bruno, Susanna Darrow, James Metropole, Cameron Mitchell, Stuart Whitman.....Directors Leonard Nimoy, Edward M. Abroms, Allen Baron, Jeannot Szwarc, Boris Sagal, Barry Shear, Screenplay/Writing Credits Rod Sterling and Jack Laird."A nightmare frozen in time"............TV writer Rod Serling was the creative force behind the popular supernatural/horror series "The Twilight Zone" in the 1960's, a series of half hour episodes in which the bizarre, frightening and unnatural filled TV screens across America to critical acclaim. After "Twilight Zone" was canceled, Rod Serling's "The Night Gallery" came to television from 1970 to 1973. It was hosted by Rod Serling himself, a bit older than he looked when he hosted "Twilight Zone" as he walked us through an art gallery replete with strange, demonic often very intimidating artwork. Each work of art told a story which was the focus of each half-hour episode. The series did very well and it was, if anything, a more intense follow-up to "Twilight Zone". Because it was the early 70's, the episodes of Night Gallery were a tad more uncensored and graphic. It was on late night on television so that younger viewers would not be exposed to it. Various directors worked on the series, among them Leonard Nimoy, Spock from Star Trek and European-bornJeannot Szwarc who would later direct the 1980 romantic time-travel film "Somewhere In Time" starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Several TV and film actors guest starred during the run of the series. They included Vincent Price (himself a horror film figure), Al Lewis (Grandpa Dracula from "The Munsters"), John Astin (Gomez from "The Addams Family") Phyllis Diller, Elsa Lanchester, Carl Reiner, Burgess Meredith, a young Diane Keaton, Cesar Romero (The Joker from "Batman") Tom Bosley (from Happy Days) and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Clearly, this series enticed a number of celebrities at the time who probably enjoyed watching this scary series themselves.While Night Gallery's frightening aspects are considerably tame and even cheap by today's digital age, it can be haunting and scary in its own light. Rather than focusing on graphic violence, blood and gore, Night Gallery's stories were very well-written, chilling both psychologically and emotionally and often coming off like the sort of thing that Stephen King was possibly inspired by. But it is clearly a series modeled after Alfred Hitchock Presents. Rod Sterling himself called himself a lesser, thinner Hitchcock. All of the episodes contain great things one can spend hours talking about. Here are some of my favorites: "The Painted Mirror": Zsa Zsa Gabor plays a bitchy heiress who wishes to put an elderly antique shop owner out of business. A strange mirror, painted over in black, fades to reveal a pre-historic dinosaur world dimension. It is Zsa Zsa Gabor's character who is punished by being trapped in that world. A similar story has a greedy corporate businessman/fraud who is punished by being trapped in a dimension of soulless zombies. In the episode entitled "Green Fingers" Elsa Lanchester stars as an elderly gardener who owns a home in the path of freeway construction. The man behind the project hires a hit man to kill her but she gets her revenge by literally "planting" her own fingers and then coming back from the dead. Other episodes included demons, ghosts, the living dead, vampires and aliens from outer space. Some episodes were too bizarre and ambiguous to fully be understood. The episode directed by Jeannot Szwarc (Somewhere In Time) dealt with a medical bag from the future that contained the cure to all known diseases (including cancer) is in the hands of a time traveler but they, that is people from the past, don't believe his story and they throw away the bag. Often, short stories by noted horror genre authors such as H.P. Lovecraft were included such as the well-done "Pickman's Model" about a 19th century artist whose "monster" subject for one particularly gruesome painting turns out to be based on a real monster who inhabits his home. This was an excellent series, full of mystery, intrigue, suspense, danger and surrealism. For me, it surpassed "The Twilight Zone" which, despite being a classic, was sometimes too dull and talky. For those of you who are interested in this series, it is now available on DVD in its entirety (four seasons).

Ripshin At least a dozen users have brought up Spielberg's participation, as if it were a revelation each time. Enough, already. Also, it would be nice if people would place a *spoiler* warning, when they describe plots, ad naseum.This series DOES beg a comparison to Serling's earlier "Twilight Zone," of course. And, it does NOT fair well. While a few classic episodes do pop up, "Night Gallery" is a major misfire from the first season.Ridiculous "twist" endings, with no logical basis, are mistaken as being "scary." Some episodes don't even make sense, even after repeated viewings.The hour-long show should have been reduced to thirty minutes, as it was in syndication. Apparently, many users don't realize that a separate show, "The Sixth Sense," was incorporated into "Night Gallery" in syndication, with Serling creating new wrap-around intros. The two were never intended to be "one," and it is evident. Any episode with Gary Collins was not originally a true "Gallery."