5.2/10234 votesLoading...#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
5.8/10275 votesLoading...#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
6.0/10262 votesLoading...#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
6.0/10242 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.1/10311 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.5/10285 votesLoading...#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
6.5/10259 votesLoading...#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
6.5/10247 votesLoading...#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
6.6/10579 votesLoading...#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
6.6/10329 votesLoading...#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
6.6/10353 votesLoading...#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
6.7/10265 votesLoading...#12 - 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
6.8/10612 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.8/10407 votesLoading...#14 - 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
6.8/10381 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.8/10305 votesLoading...#16 - 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
6.8/10265 votesLoading...#17 - 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
6.9/10592 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.9/10412 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.0/10324 votesLoading...#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
7.0/10287 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.0/10263 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.1/10676 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.1/10418 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.1/10296 votesLoading...#25 - The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1972
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
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...
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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 234 votes. Directed by Jack Laird, Gerald Perry Finnerman and written by Jack Laird, Halsted Welles, it aired on 5/27/1973. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes".