The Best Episodes of Night Gallery Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.3/10(314 votes)

   #1 - Finnegan's Flight

   S3:E812/17/1972

   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

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   Director:Gene R. Kearney

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   7.0/10(344 votes)

   #2 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

   S3:E210/1/1972

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

   Director:John Badham

   Writer:Robert M. Young

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   Director:John Badham

   Writer:Robert M. Young
3. 

   7.0/10(285 votes)

   #3 - Death on a Barge

   S3:E123/4/1973

   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

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   Director:Leonard Nimoy

   Writer:Halsted Welles
4. 

   6.9/10(315 votes)

   #4 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes

   S3:E410/29/1972

   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

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   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Gene R. Kearney
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   6.8/10(444 votes)

   #5 - The Return of the Sorcerer

   S3:E19/24/1972

   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

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   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Halsted Welles
6. 

   6.7/10(285 votes)

   #6 - The Other Way Out

   S3:E611/19/1972

   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

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   Director:Gene R. Kearney

   Writer:Gene R. Kearney
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7. 

   6.6/10(287 votes)

   #7 - Something in the Woodwork

   S3:E111/14/1973

   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

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   Director:Edward M. Abroms

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   6.5/10(309 votes)

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

   S3:E511/12/1972

   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.

   Directors:Jack Laird, John Badham

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jack Laird, John Badham

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   6.5/10(279 votes)

   #9 - Fright Night

   S3:E712/10/1972

   Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

   Director:Jeff Corey

   Writer:Robert M. Young

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   Director:Jeff Corey

   Writer:Robert M. Young
10. 

    6.5/10(268 votes)

    #10 - She'll Be Company for You

    S3:E912/24/1972

    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

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    Director:Gerald Perry Finnerman

    Writer:David Rayfiel
11. 

    6.1/10(286 votes)

    #11 - Rare Objects

    S3:E310/22/1972

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

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Rod Serling

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Rod Serling
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    6.0/10(337 votes)

    #12 - Whisper

    S3:E135/13/1973

    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

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:David Rayfiel
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    6.0/10(266 votes)

    #13 - The Doll of Death

    S3:E145/20/1973

    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

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    Director:John Badham

    Writer:Jack Guss
14. 

    5.7/10(298 votes)

    #14 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

    S3:E101/7/1973

    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

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Robert M. Young
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    5.2/10(249 votes)

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

    S3:E155/27/1973

    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.

    Directors:Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman

    Writers:Jack Laird, Halsted Welles

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    Directors:Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman

    Writers:Jack Laird, Halsted Welles