The Worst Episodes of Night Gallery

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   #1 - 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
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   #2 - The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

   S2:E811/10/1971

   A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.

   Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird

   Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack Laird

   Writers:Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling
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   #3 - 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
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   #4 - 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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   Director:John Astin

   Writer:Unknown
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   #5 - 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
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   #6 - Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood

   S2:E161/12/1972

   A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.

   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   #7 - The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place

   S2:E171/19/1972

   An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.

   Director:Ralph Senensky

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Director:Ralph Senensky

   Writer:Rod Serling
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   #8 - Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight

   S2:E192/9/1972

   A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.

   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling

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   Directors:Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc

   Writers:Jack Laird, Rod Serling
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   #9 - 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
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    #10 - 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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    #11 - 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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    #12 - 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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    #13 - 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
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    #14 - 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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    #15 - 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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    #16 - 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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    #17 - 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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    #18 - 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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    #19 - 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
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    #20 - 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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    1.0/10(326 votes)

    #21 - 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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    #22 - 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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    #23 - 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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    2.0/10(275 votes)

    #24 - 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
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    3.3/10(424 votes)

    #25 - Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe

    S2:E151/5/1972

    An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.

    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

    Writers:Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

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    Directors:John Meredyth Lucas, John Badham

    Writers:Richard Matheson, Rod Serling