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The Worst Episodes of Night Gallery

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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.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 15 - Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
    5.2/10(249 votes)

    S3:E15

    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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  2. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 10 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
    5.7/10(298 votes)

    S3:E10

    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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  3. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 13 - Whisper
    6.0/10(337 votes)

    S3:E13

    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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  4. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 14 - The Doll of Death
    6.0/10(266 votes)

    S3:E14

    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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  5. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 3 - Rare Objects
    6.1/10(286 votes)

    S3:E3

    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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  6. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 4 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
    6.5/10(647 votes)

    S1:E4

    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:Walter Doniger, Steven Spielberg
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  7. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 5 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
    6.5/10(309 votes)

    S3:E5

    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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  8. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 7 - Fright Night
    6.5/10(279 votes)

    S3:E7

    Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

    Director:Jeff Corey
    Writer:Robert M. Young

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  9. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 9 - She'll Be Company for You
    6.5/10(268 votes)

    S3:E9

    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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  10. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 9 - House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
    6.6/10(364 votes)

    S2:E9

    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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  11. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 14 - The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
    6.6/10(377 votes)

    S2:E14

    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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  12. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 11 - Something in the Woodwork
    6.6/10(287 votes)

    S3:E11

    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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  13. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 7 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
    6.7/10(421 votes)

    S2:E7

    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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  14. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 6 - The Other Way Out
    6.7/10(285 votes)

    S3:E6

    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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  15. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 2 - Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
    6.8/10(683 votes)

    S1:E2

    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:Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman
    Writers:Rod Serling, Hal Dresner

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  16. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 4 - A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
    6.8/10(453 votes)

    S2:E4

    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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  17. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 20 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
    6.8/10(335 votes)

    S2:E20

    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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  18. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 1 - The Return of the Sorcerer
    6.8/10(444 votes)

    S3:E1

    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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  19. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 3 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    6.9/10(653 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:John Astin, Jeff Corey
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  20. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 4 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes
    6.9/10(315 votes)

    S3:E4

    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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  21. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 10 - The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
    7.0/10(358 votes)

    S2:E10

    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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  22. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 2 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
    7.0/10(344 votes)

    S3:E2

    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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  23. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 12 - Death on a Barge
    7.0/10(285 votes)

    S3:E12

    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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  24. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 1 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper
    7.1/10(758 votes)

    S1:E1

    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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  25. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 3 - Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
    7.1/10(472 votes)

    S2:E3

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire" is the worst rated episode of "Night Gallery". It scored 5.2/10 based on 249 votes. Directed by Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman and written by Jack Laird, Halsted Welles, it aired on 5/27/1973. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes".