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The Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 3

Every episode of Night Gallery Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 3!

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.

Genres:DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Night Gallery" season 3 is "The Return of the Sorcerer", rated 6.8/10 from 408 user votes. It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Halsted Welles. "The Return of the Sorcerer" aired on 9/24/1972 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes".

  • The Return of the Sorcerer
    6.8/10 408 votes

    #1 - The Return of the Sorcerer

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1972

    A sorcerer hires a translator to divine the meaning of an ancient Arabic manuscript that has some grisly connection with his twin brother's death.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Halsted Welles

  • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
    7.0/10 306 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Rare Objects
    6.0/10 258 votes

    #3 - Rare Objects

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1972

    A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Spectre in Tap-Shoes
    7.0/10 284 votes

    #4 - 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

  • You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
    6.5/10 282 votes

    #5 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1972

    A bungling inventor and his forgetful wife pool their ineptitude for an experiment in immortality. A vignette about a woman who tries to photograph a vampire.

    Director: John Badham, Jack Laird

    Writer: Jack Laird, Rod Serling

  • The Other Way Out
    6.7/10 261 votes

    #6 - The Other Way Out

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1972

    Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.

    Director: Gene R. Kearney

    Writer: Gene R. Kearney

  • Fright Night
    6.5/10 255 votes

    #7 - Fright Night

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/1972

    Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

    Director: Jeff Corey

    Writer: Robert M. Young

  • Finnegan's Flight
    7.3/10 287 votes

    #8 - 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

  • She'll Be Company for You
    6.5/10 243 votes

    #9 - She'll Be Company for You

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/24/1972

    After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.

    Director: Gerald Perry Finnerman

    Writer: David Rayfiel

  • The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
    5.8/10 272 votes

    #10 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/1973

    The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Robert M. Young

  • Something in the Woodwork
    6.7/10 262 votes

    #11 - Something in the Woodwork

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1973

    A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.

    Director: Edward M. Abroms

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Death on a Barge
    7.0/10 260 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Whisper
    6.0/10 306 votes

    #13 - Whisper

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/1973

    A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: David Rayfiel

  • The Doll of Death
    6.0/10 236 votes

    #14 - The Doll of Death

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 5/20/1973

    A spurned plantation owner in the British West Indies enlists the power of voodoo to avenge himself against a romantic rival.

    Director: John Badham

    Writer: Jack Guss

  • Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
    5.2/10 229 votes

    #15 - Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/27/1973

    Blood memories surface when an anthropologist responds in kind to a captive gorilla's primeval hatred. Two men debate the best way to kill vampires.

    Director: Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman

    Writer: Jack Laird, Halsted Welles