8.0/10469 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10598 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10404 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10431 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10386 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10391 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10392 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.5/10380 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.4/10508 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.3/10531 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10437 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.3/10292 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.2/10431 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10437 votesLoading...#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: Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman, Jack Laird
Writer: Rod Serling, Jack Laird, Richard Matheson
7.2/10366 votesLoading...#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: Jeff Corey, Jack Laird
Writer: N/A
7.2/10337 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10676 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10419 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10297 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10310 votesLoading...#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
7.0/10324 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.0/10314 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.0/10290 votesLoading...#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
7.0/10266 votesLoading...#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
6.9/10592 votesLoading...#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
The Best Episodes of Night Gallery
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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 469 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".