The BEST episodes of Night Gallery
Every episode of Night Gallery ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Night Gallery!
Night Gallery was creator-host Rod Serling's follow-up to The Twilight Zone. Set in a shadowy museum of the outre, Serling weekly unveiled disturbing portraiture as preface to a highly diverse anthology of tales in the fantasy-horror vein. Bolstering Serling's thoughtful original dramas were adaptations of classic genre material--short stories by such luminaries as H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, A.E. van Vogt, Algernon Blackwood, Conrad Aiken, Richard Matheson, August Derleth, and Christianna Brand. Variety of material brought with it a variety of tone, from the deadly serious to the tongue-in-cheek, stretching the television anthology concept to its very limits.
#1 - The Caterpillar
Season 2 - Episode 60 - Aired 3/1/1972
A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice--an earwig--in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival.
#2 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1971
A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past.
#3 - Cool Air
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 12/8/1971
A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment.
#4 - Lindemann's Catch
Season 2 - Episode 46 - Aired 1/12/1972
A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a cold-hearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive.
#5 - Big Surprise
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/10/1971
An eccentric farmer promises a ""big surprise"" to a group of boys . . . if they dig for it.
#6 - The Messiah on Mott Street
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/15/1971
Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah.
#7 - The Doll
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1971
A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.
#8 - The Painted Mirror
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/15/1971
A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures in an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.
#9 - Certain Shadows on the Wall
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/1970
An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.
#10 - Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/17/1971
An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises restored health--or a resurrection--to a poor farmer's dying daughter.
#11 - The Dark Boy
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/24/1971
A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader.
#12 - Pickman's Model
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/1/1971
A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls.
#13 - Camera Obscura
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/8/1971
A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device.
#14 - The Tune in Dan's Cafe
Season 2 - Episode 45 - Aired 1/5/1972
A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.
#15 - A Fear of Spiders
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/6/1971
A phobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy--and obstinate--little guest crawling in his kitchen sink.
#16 - The Cemetery
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/1969
A black-sheep nephew murders his ailing uncle for the inheritance only to find some disturbing changes in the old man's painting of the family graveyard.
#17 - The Little Black Bag
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/1970
Miraculous healing--and abrupt tragedy--result when a 21st century medical bag falls into the hands of a discredited 20th century doctor.
#18 - The Merciful
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/1971
Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering.
#19 - Little Girl Lost
Season 2 - Episode 61 - Aired 3/1/1972
Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.
#20 - The Diary
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/10/1971
A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur.
#21 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1972
A bungling inventor and his forgetful wife pool their ineptitude for an experiment in immortality.
#22 - Class of '99
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/22/1971
A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam.
#23 - Midnight Never Ends
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/3/1971
A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences.
#24 - The Sins of the Fathers
Season 2 - Episode 58 - Aired 2/23/1972
In a tale of an old Welsh funerary custom, a devastating famine forces a young boy to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. His duties: to cleanse the departed of sin by feasting in the presence of his corpse.
#25 - There Aren't Any More MacBanes
Season 2 - Episode 57 - Aired 2/16/1972
A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.