The Best Episodes of Night Gallery

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   10.0/10(398 votes)

   #1 - The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid

   S2:E181/26/1972

   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

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   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   9.0/10(502 votes)

   #2 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

   S2:E223/1/1972

   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

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   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   8.0/10(462 votes)

   #3 - Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven

   S2:E1212/8/1971

   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.

   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   7.8/10(653 votes)

   #4 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel

   S1:E61/20/1971

   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.

   Directors:Don Taylor, Daryl Duke

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Don Taylor, Daryl Duke

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   7.7/10(571 votes)

   #5 - Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll

   S1:E51/13/1971

   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.

   Directors:Rudi Dorn, Gene Levitt, Richard Benedict

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Rudi Dorn, Gene Levitt, Richard Benedict

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   7.5/10(552 votes)

   #6 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?

   S2:E19/15/1971

   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.

   Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   7.3/10(639 votes)

   #7 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

   S1:E312/30/1970

   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.

   Directors:Jeff Corey, John Astin

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeff Corey, John Astin

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   7.0/10(415 votes)

   #8 - The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror

   S2:E1312/15/1971

   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

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   Director:Don Taylor

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   6.8/10(633 votes)

   #9 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies

   S1:E41/6/1971

   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.

   Directors:Steven Spielberg, Walter Doniger

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Steven Spielberg, Walter Doniger

   Writer:Rod Serling
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    6.0/10(477 votes)

    #10 - A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast

    S2:E29/22/1971

    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. An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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    6.0/10(431 votes)

    #11 - A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked

    S2:E610/27/1971

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Jack Laird

    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(421 votes)

    #12 - The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore

    S2:E212/23/1972

    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.

    Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Rod Serling
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    5.4/10(746 votes)

    #13 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    S1:E112/16/1970

    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.

    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard

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    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard
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    5.1/10(670 votes)

    #14 - Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy

    S1:E212/23/1970

    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.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Rod Serling, Hal Dresner

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Rod Serling, Hal Dresner
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    5.0/10(462 votes)

    #15 - Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan

    S2:E39/29/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein
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    5.0/10(446 votes)

    #16 - A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy

    S2:E410/6/1971

    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.

    Directors:Theodore J. Flicker, Jeff Corey, John Astin, Jerrold Freedman

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman

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    Directors:Theodore J. Flicker, Jeff Corey, John Astin, Jerrold Freedman

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman
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    5.0/10(478 votes)

    #17 - The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow

    S2:E510/20/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Gene R. Kearney

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

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    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Gene R. Kearney

    Writers:Gene R. Kearney, Halsted Welles, Seabury Quinn
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    5.0/10(390 votes)

    #18 - Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry

    S2:E1112/1/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jeff Corey, Jack Laird

    Writer:Unknown

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    Directors:Jeff Corey, Jack Laird

    Writer:Unknown
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    3.3/10(424 votes)

    #19 - Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe

    S2:E151/5/1972

    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.

    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

    Writers:Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

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    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

    Writers:Richard Matheson, Rod Serling
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    2.0/10(275 votes)

    #20 - Death on a Barge

    S3:E123/4/1973

    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

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    Director:Leonard Nimoy

    Writer:Halsted Welles
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    1.0/10(326 votes)

    #21 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes

    S2:E202/16/1972

    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.

    Directors:John Newland, Daniel Haller

    Writer:Jack Laird

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    Directors:John Newland, Daniel Haller

    Writer:Jack Laird
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    1.0/10(432 votes)

    #22 - The Return of the Sorcerer

    S3:E19/24/1972

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Halsted Welles

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Halsted Welles
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    1.0/10(272 votes)

    #23 - The Other Way Out

    S3:E611/19/1972

    Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.

    Director:Gene R. Kearney

    Writer:Gene R. Kearney

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    Director:Gene R. Kearney

    Writer:Gene R. Kearney
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    0.0/10(412 votes)

    #24 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda

    S2:E711/3/1971

    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.

    Directors:Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Rod Serling

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    Directors:Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Rod Serling
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    0.0/10(470 votes)

    #25 - The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

    S2:E811/10/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird

    Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird

    Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling