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The Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 2

Every episode of Night Gallery Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 2!

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

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?" is the best rated episode of "Night Gallery" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 507 votes. Directed by John Badham, John Meredyth Lucas and written by Jack Laird, Rod Serling, it aired on 9/15/1971. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast".

  • The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
    7.4/10507 votes

    #1 - 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 Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
    7.3/10435 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
    7.1/10418 votes

    #3 - 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

  • A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
    6.8/10406 votes

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

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1971

    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.

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

    Writer: Jerrold Freedman, Rod Serling

  • The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
    7.2/10429 votes

    #5 - 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

  • A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
    7.5/10392 votes

    #6 - 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

  • Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
    6.8/10381 votes

    #7 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1971

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Douglas Heyes, Rod Serling

  • The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
    7.2/10437 votes

    #8 - 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

  • House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
    6.6/10329 votes

    #9 - House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1971

    A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Theodore J. Flicker

    Writer: Jack Laird, Theodore J. Flicker, Rod Serling

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

    #10 - 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

  • Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
    7.2/10366 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
    7.6/10431 votes

    #12 - 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
    7.6/10386 votes

    #13 - 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

  • The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
    6.6/10353 votes

    #14 - The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1971

    In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Robert Bloch, Rod Serling

  • Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
    7.6/10388 votes

    #15 - 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

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

    #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 Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
    7.1/10296 votes

    #17 - 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

  • The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
    7.5/10379 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
    7.1/10310 votes

    #19 - 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

  • I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
    6.8/10305 votes

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

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1972

    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.

    Director: John Newland, Daniel Haller

    Writer: Jack Laird

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

    #21 - 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

  • The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
    8.0/10468 votes

    #22 - 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