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Every episode of Night Gallery ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Night Gallery!

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

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "Night Gallery" is "Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire", rated 5.2/10 from 229 user votes. It was directed by Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman and written by Jack Laird, Halsted Welles. "Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire" aired on 5/27/1973 and is rated 0.6 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes".

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

    #1 - 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

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

    #2 - 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

  • 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

  • Whisper
    6.0/10 306 votes

    #4 - 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

    #5 - 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

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

    #6 - 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

  • 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

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

    #8 - 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

  • Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
    6.6/10 570 votes

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

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/1971

    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.

    Director: Steven Spielberg, Walter Doniger

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
    6.6/10 327 votes

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

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1971

    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.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Theodore J. Flicker

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

  • The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
    6.6/10 349 votes

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

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1971

    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.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc, John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Robert Bloch, Rod Serling

  • The Other Way Out
    6.7/10 261 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Something in the Woodwork
    6.7/10 262 votes

    #13 - 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

  • Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
    6.8/10 599 votes

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

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/23/1970

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner, Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Rod Serling, Hal Dresner

  • A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
    6.8/10 403 votes

    #15 - A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1971

    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.

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

    Writer: Jerrold Freedman, Rod Serling

  • Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
    6.8/10 379 votes

    #16 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1971

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Douglas Heyes, Rod Serling

  • I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
    6.8/10 301 votes

    #17 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1972

    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.

    Director: John Newland, Daniel Haller

    Writer: Jack Laird

  • The Return of the Sorcerer
    6.8/10 408 votes

    #18 - 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 House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    6.9/10 583 votes

    #19 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/30/1970

    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.

    Director: John Astin, Jeff Corey

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
    7.0/10 320 votes

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

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1971

    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: N/A

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

    #21 - 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

  • Spectre in Tap-Shoes
    7.0/10 284 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Death on a Barge
    7.0/10 260 votes

    #23 - 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

  • The Dead Man / The House Keeper
    7.1/10 664 votes

    #24 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1970

    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.

    Director: John Meredyth Lucas, Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Douglas Heyes, Matthew Howard

  • Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
    7.1/10 414 votes

    #25 - Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1971

    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.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein