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 the connective link between the stories.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Night Gallery" season 2 is "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?", rated 7.4/10 from 499 user votes. It was directed by John Badham, John Meredyth Lucas and written by Jack Laird, Rod Serling. "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?" aired on 9/15/1971 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast".
7.4/10 499 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
7.2/10 431 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
7.1/10 414 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
6.8/10 403 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
7.2/10 426 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
7.4/10 387 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
6.8/10 379 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
7.2/10 433 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: Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird
Writer: Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling
6.6/10 327 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
7.0/10 320 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
7.2/10 364 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
7.6/10 426 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
7.6/10 383 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
6.6/10 349 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
7.5/10 383 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
7.2/10 333 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
7.1/10 292 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
7.5/10 370 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
7.1/10 304 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
6.8/10 301 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
7.8/10 400 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
8.0/10 463 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