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The Best Episodes of Night Gallery

Every episode of Night Gallery ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genres:DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost" is the best rated episode of "Night Gallery". It scored 8/10 based on 468 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 3/1/1972. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel".

  • The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
    8.0/10468 votes
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    #1 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1972

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
    7.8/10592 votes
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    #2 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/20/1971

    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.

    Director: Don Taylor, Daryl Duke

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
    7.8/10404 votes
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    #3 - The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1972

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
    7.6/10429 votes
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    #4 - Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1971

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror
    7.6/10385 votes
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    #5 - The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1971

    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.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
    7.6/10386 votes
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    #6 - Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1972

    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.

    Director: John Badham, John Meredyth Lucas

    Writer: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

  • The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
    7.5/10377 votes
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    #7 - The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1972

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
    7.4/10505 votes
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    #8 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1971

    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.

    Director: John Badham, John Meredyth Lucas

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
    7.4/10390 votes
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    #9 - A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1971

    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.

    Director: Jack Laird

    Writer: N/A

  • Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
    7.3/10529 votes
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    #10 - Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/13/1971

    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.

    Director: Richard Benedict, Gene Levitt, Rudi Dorn

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Finnegan's Flight
    7.3/10291 votes
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    #11 - Finnegan's Flight

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/17/1972

    A prisoner for life yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter, with tragic results.

    Director: Gene R. Kearney

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
    7.2/10434 votes
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    #12 - A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1971

    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.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
    7.2/10428 votes
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    #13 - The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1971

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Gene R. Kearney

    Writer: Halsted Welles, Seabury Quinn, Gene R. Kearney

  • The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
    7.2/10436 votes
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    #14 - The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1971

    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.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird

    Writer: Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

  • Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
    7.2/10365 votes
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    #15 - Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1971

    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.

    Director: Jack Laird, Jeff Corey

    Writer: N/A

  • Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
    7.2/10337 votes
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    #16 - Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1972

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • The Dead Man / The House Keeper
    7.1/10672 votes
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    #17 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1970

    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.

    Director: John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard

  • Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
    7.1/10417 votes
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    #18 - Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1971

    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.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein

  • The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
    7.1/10295 votes
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    #19 - The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1972

    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.

    Director: Ralph Senensky

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
    7.1/10309 votes
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    #20 - Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1972

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
    7.1/10309 votes
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    #21 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1972

    A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.

    Director: John Badham

    Writer: Robert M. Young

  • The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
    7.0/10323 votes
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    #22 - The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1971

    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.

    Director: John Astin

    Writer: N/A

  • Spectre in Tap-Shoes
    7.0/10287 votes
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    #23 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1972

    After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Gene R. Kearney

  • Death on a Barge
    7.0/10263 votes
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    #24 - Death on a Barge

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/4/1973

    A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.

    Director: Leonard Nimoy

    Writer: Halsted Welles

  • The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    6.9/10590 votes
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    #25 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/30/1970

    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.

    Director: John Astin, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Rod Serling