The Worst Episodes of Night Gallery

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 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

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

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

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.

Director: Jeff Corey

Writer: Robert M. Young

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

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

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: Rod Serling, Jack Laird, Theodore J. Flicker

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: John Meredyth Lucas, Jeannot Szwarc, Jeff Corey

Writer: Rod Serling, Robert Bloch

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

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

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: Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner

Writer: Rod Serling, Hal Dresner

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, Jeff Corey, Theodore J. Flicker, John Astin

Writer: Rod Serling, Jerrold Freedman

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: Jeannot Szwarc, Allen Reisner

Writer: Rod Serling, Douglas Heyes

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

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: Jeff Corey, John Astin

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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

Director: John Badham

Writer: Robert M. Young

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

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

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

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: Jeannot Szwarc, Jerrold Freedman

Writer: Jack Laird, Malcolm Marmorstein