The Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(514 votes)

   #1 - 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
2. 

   7.7/10(427 votes)

   #2 - 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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   7.7/10(435 votes)

   #3 - 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:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

   Writer:Rod Serling
4. 

   7.6/10(472 votes)

   #4 - 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:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
5. 

   7.6/10(435 votes)

   #5 - 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
6. 

   7.5/10(408 votes)

   #6 - 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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   7.4/10(560 votes)

   #7 - 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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   7.4/10(440 votes)

   #8 - 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

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9. 

   7.2/10(488 votes)

   #9 - 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:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
10. 

    7.2/10(479 votes)

    #10 - 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:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman, Jack Laird

    Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman, Jack Laird

    Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling
11. 

    7.2/10(399 votes)

    #11 - 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:Jack Laird, Jeff Corey

    Writer:Unknown

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12. 

    7.2/10(370 votes)

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

    S2:E161/12/1972

    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.

    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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13. 

    7.2/10(342 votes)

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

    S2:E192/9/1972

    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.

    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

    Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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14. 

    7.1/10(472 votes)

    #14 - 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:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman

    Writers:Malcolm Marmorstein, Jack Laird

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    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman

    Writers:Malcolm Marmorstein, Jack Laird
15. 

    7.1/10(485 votes)

    #15 - 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:Halsted Welles, Seabury Quinn, Gene R. Kearney

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    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, Gene R. Kearney

    Writers:Halsted Welles, Seabury Quinn, Gene R. Kearney
16. 

    7.1/10(325 votes)

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

    S2:E171/19/1972

    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

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    Director:Ralph Senensky

    Writer:Rod Serling
17. 

    7.0/10(358 votes)

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

    S2:E1011/24/1971

    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:Unknown

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    Director:John Astin

    Writer:Unknown
18. 

    6.8/10(453 votes)

    #18 - 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:Jerrold Freedman, John Astin, Jeff Corey, Theodore J. Flicker

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman

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

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman
19. 

    6.8/10(335 votes)

    #19 - 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
20. 

    6.7/10(421 votes)

    #20 - 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
21. 

    6.6/10(364 votes)

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

    S2:E911/17/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Theodore J. Flicker

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

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Theodore J. Flicker

    Writers:Theodore J. Flicker, Jack Laird, Rod Serling
22. 

    6.6/10(377 votes)

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

    S2:E1412/29/1971

    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.

    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey

    Writers:Robert Bloch, Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jeannot Szwarc, John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey

    Writers:Robert Bloch, Rod Serling