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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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    Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 15 - Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
    5.2/10(252 votes)

    #1 - Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire

    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.

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  2. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 10 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
    5.7/10(299 votes)

    #2 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

    S3:E10

    The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.

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  3. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 3 - Rare Objects
    6.0/10(287 votes)

    #3 - Rare Objects

    S3:E3

    A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.

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  4. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 14 - The Doll of Death
    6.0/10(267 votes)

    #4 - The Doll of Death

    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 13 - Whisper
    6.1/10(338 votes)

    #5 - Whisper

    S3:E13

    A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.

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  6. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 5 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
    6.5/10(310 votes)

    #6 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please

    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.

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  8. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 7 - Fright Night
    6.5/10(282 votes)

    #7 - Fright Night

    S3:E7

    Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

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  9. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 9 - She'll Be Company for You
    6.5/10(269 votes)

    #8 - She'll Be Company for You

    S3:E9

    After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.

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  10. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 4 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
    6.6/10(634 votes)

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

    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.

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  11. 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(359 votes)

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

    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.

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  12. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 14 - The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
    6.6/10(374 votes)

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

    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.

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  13. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 7 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
    6.7/10(418 votes)

    #12 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda

    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.

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  14. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 6 - The Other Way Out
    6.7/10(286 votes)

    #13 - The Other Way Out

    S3:E6

    Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.

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  15. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 11 - Something in the Woodwork
    6.7/10(291 votes)

    #14 - Something in the Woodwork

    S3:E11

    A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.

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  16. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 2 - Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
    6.8/10(664 votes)

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

    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.

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  17. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 4 - A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
    6.8/10(449 votes)

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

    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.

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  18. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 20 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
    6.8/10(336 votes)

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

    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.

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  19. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 1 - The Return of the Sorcerer
    6.8/10(440 votes)

    #18 - The Return of the Sorcerer

    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.

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  20. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 3 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    6.9/10(638 votes)

    #19 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    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.

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

    #20 - Spectre in Tap-Shoes

    S3:E4

    After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.

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  22. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 12 - Death on a Barge
    6.9/10(286 votes)

    #21 - Death on a Barge

    S3:E12

    A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.

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  23. Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 10 - The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
    7.0/10(353 votes)

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

    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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  24. Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 2 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
    7.0/10(339 votes)

    #23 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

    S3:E2

    A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.

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  25. Night Gallery Season 1 Episode 1 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper
    7.1/10(735 votes)

    #24 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper

    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.

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  26. 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(467 votes)

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

    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.

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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 252 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".