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The Best Episodes of Night Gallery

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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...

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  1. 8.0/10(486 votes)

    #1 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

    S2:E22

    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.

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  2. 7.8/10(624 votes)

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

    S1:E6

    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.

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  3. 7.8/10(419 votes)

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

    S2:E21

    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.

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  4. 7.6/10(446 votes)

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

    S2:E12

    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.

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  5. 7.6/10(399 votes)

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

    S2:E13

    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.

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    Director:Don Taylor
  6. 7.5/10(407 votes)

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

    S2:E15

    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.

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  8. 7.5/10(391 votes)

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

    S2:E18

    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.

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  9. 7.4/10(527 votes)

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

    S2:E1

    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.

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  10. 7.4/10(411 votes)

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

    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:Jack Laird
    Writer:N/A
  11. 7.3/10(552 votes)

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

    S1:E5

    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.

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  12. 7.3/10(300 votes)

    #11 - Finnegan's Flight

    S3:E8

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

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  13. 7.2/10(456 votes)

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

    S2:E2

    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.

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  14. 7.2/10(449 votes)

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

    S2:E5

    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.

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  15. 7.2/10(456 votes)

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

    S2:E8

    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.

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  16. 7.2/10(378 votes)

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

    S2:E11

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.2/10(349 votes)

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

    S2:E16

    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.

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  18. 7.1/10(705 votes)

    #17 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    S1:E1

    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.

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  19. 7.1/10(441 votes)

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

    S2:E3

    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.

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  20. 7.1/10(305 votes)

    #19 - The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place

    S2:E17

    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.

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  21. 7.1/10(321 votes)

    #20 - Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight

    S2:E19

    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.

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  22. 7.0/10(335 votes)

    #21 - The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Director:John Astin
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.0/10(322 votes)

    #22 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

    S3:E2

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

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  24. 7.0/10(271 votes)

    #23 - Death on a Barge

    S3:E12

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

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  25. 6.9/10(612 votes)

    #24 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    S1:E3

    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.

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  26. 6.9/10(299 votes)

    #25 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes

    S3:E4

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

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost" is the best rated episode of "Night Gallery". It scored 8/10 based on 486 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".