The BEST episodes of Night Gallery season 1
Every episode of Night Gallery season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Night Gallery season 1!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - The Housekeeper
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/1970
A dabbler in black magic schemes to switch his rich wife's cold persona for a warm, loving soul.
#7 - Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1969
Seeking a living donor for an experimental transplant operation, a wealthy blind woman cons a desperate bookie into sacrificing his eyes.
#8 - Room with a View
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/1970
An invalid husband plots revenge against his faithless wife with the unwitting aid of his nurse.
#9 - The Dead Man
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/1970
An experiment in hypnosis leads to a terrifying conclusion when a physician attempts to revive his subject from death.
#10 - The Escape Route
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1969
A hunted Nazi war criminal in South America finds refuge from his pursuers--and a fitting justice for his crimes--at a museum exhibit.
#11 - The Nature of the Enemy
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/1970
Mission control scientists watch helplessly when members of a lunar expedition are mysteriously attacked.
#12 - The House
Season 1 - Episode 9 - 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.
#13 - Lone Survivor
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1971
A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled ""Titanic""--three years after the liner sank.
#14 - Clean Kills and Other Trophies
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1971
A fanatical big-game hunter forces his son to shoot a deer, inviting the vengeance of terrible gods.
#15 - Pamela's Voice
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1971
A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped.
#16 - The Last Laurel
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1971
Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.
#17 - Make Me Laugh
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1971
A desperate comic makes a deal with an inept miracle worker in a ploy to boost his sagging career.