The Worst Episodes of Night Gallery

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   5.2/10(252 votes)

   #1 - 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
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   5.7/10(299 votes)

   #2 - 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
3. 

   6.0/10(287 votes)

   #3 - 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
4. 

   6.0/10(267 votes)

   #4 - 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
5. 

   6.1/10(338 votes)

   #5 - 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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   6.5/10(310 votes)

   #6 - 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:John Badham, Jack Laird

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:John Badham, Jack Laird

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   6.5/10(282 votes)

   #7 - 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
8. 

   6.5/10(269 votes)

   #8 - 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
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   6.6/10(634 votes)

   #9 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies

   S1:E41/6/1971

   A desperate comic makes a deal with an inept miracle worker in a ploy to boost his sagging career. A fanatical big-game hunter forces his son to shoot a deer, inviting the vengeance of terrible gods.

   Directors:Steven Spielberg, Walter Doniger

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Directors:Steven Spielberg, Walter Doniger

   Writer:Rod Serling
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    6.6/10(359 votes)

    #10 - 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:Theodore J. Flicker, Jerrold Freedman

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

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    Directors:Theodore J. Flicker, Jerrold Freedman

    Writers:Jack Laird, Theodore J. Flicker, Rod Serling
11. 

    6.6/10(374 votes)

    #11 - 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:John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Robert Bloch, Rod Serling

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    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Robert Bloch, Rod Serling
12. 

    6.7/10(418 votes)

    #12 - 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
13. 

    6.7/10(286 votes)

    #13 - 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
14. 

    6.7/10(291 votes)

    #14 - 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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    6.8/10(664 votes)

    #15 - Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy

    S1:E212/23/1970

    An invalid husband plots revenge against his faithless wife with the unwitting aid of his nurse. Miraculous healing, and abrupt tragedy, result when a 21st century medical bag falls into the hands of a discredited 20th century doctor. Mission control scientists watch helplessly when members of a lunar expedition are mysteriously attacked.

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Rod Serling, Hal Dresner

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Rod Serling, Hal Dresner
16. 

    6.8/10(449 votes)

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

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman

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

    Writer:Jerrold Freedman
17. 

    6.8/10(336 votes)

    #17 - 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
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    6.8/10(440 votes)

    #18 - 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
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    6.9/10(638 votes)

    #19 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    S1:E312/30/1970

    A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life, but never dared enter, in a recurring dream. An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.

    Directors:Jeff Corey, John Astin

    Writer:Rod Serling

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    Directors:Jeff Corey, John Astin

    Writer:Rod Serling
20. 

    6.9/10(315 votes)

    #20 - 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
21. 

    6.9/10(286 votes)

    #21 - 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
22. 

    7.0/10(353 votes)

    #22 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.0/10(339 votes)

    #23 - 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
24. 

    7.1/10(735 votes)

    #24 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    S1:E112/16/1970

    An experiment in hypnosis leads to a terrifying conclusion when a physician attempts to revive his subject from death. A dabbler in black magic schemes to switch his rich wife's cold persona for a warm, loving soul.

    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard

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    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writers:Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard
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    7.1/10(467 votes)

    #25 - 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:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein

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    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writers:Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein