The BEST episodes of Night Gallery season 3
Every episode of Night Gallery season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Night Gallery season 3!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Something in the Woodwork
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1973
A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Whisper
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/13/1973
A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Season 3 - Episode 11 - 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.
#8 - The Other Way Out
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1972
Bradley Manning kills a woman who threatened to expose their affair to Bradley's wife. When Bradley returns from vacation, someone threatens him with exposure unless Bradley brings $10,000 to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.
#9 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1972
A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive - yet frightening - glow.
#10 - Fright Night
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1972
An author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to open a mysterious trunk there that someone will come for. The house starts driving them insane.
#11 - Death on a Barge
Season 3 - Episode 13 - 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.
#12 - Smile, Please
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1972
A vignette about photographing a vampire.
#13 - She'll Be Company for You
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1972
After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.
#14 - Finnegan's Flight
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1972
A prison lifer yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter--with tragic results.
#15 - The Doll of Death
Season 3 - Episode 15 - 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.
#16 - Hatred unto Death
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/27/1973
Blood memories surface when an anthropologist responds in kind to a captive gorilla's primeval hatred.
#17 - How to Cure the Common Vampire
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/27/1973
Yet another vignette about vampires (and those who hunt them).