The WORST episodes of Night Gallery
Every episode of Night Gallery ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 Different Ones
Season 2 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/29/1971
In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet.
#2 - Quoth the Raven
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/8/1971
Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.
#3 - How to Cure the Common Vampire
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/27/1973
Yet another vignette about vampires (and those who hunt them).
#4 - 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.
#5 - An Act of Chivalry
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/1/1971
A vignette about elevator manners.
#6 - A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank
Season 2 - Episode 28 - 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.
#7 - Hell's Bells
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 11/17/1971
A recent initiate is surprised to find Hell a little tame for his liking.
#8 - A Matter of Semantics
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/10/1971
Count Dracula visits a blood bank.
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Dear Departed
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/1/1971
Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident simplifies the triangle.
#11 - Logoda's Heads
Season 2 - Episode 42 - Aired 12/29/1971
Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.
#12 - Last Rites for a Dead Druid
Season 2 - Episode 52 - Aired 1/26/1972
When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.
#13 - The Funeral
Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 1/5/1972
A vampire plans his belated, lavish--and noisy--final obsequy.
#14 - Dead Weight
Season 2 - Episode 55 - Aired 2/9/1972
A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.
#15 - A Feast of Blood
Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 1/12/1972
A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a fur brooch that seems almost alive.
#16 - The Late Mr. Peddington
Season 2 - Episode 47 - Aired 1/12/1972
A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy.
#17 - Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/24/1971
A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.
#18 - House - with Ghost
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/17/1971
A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost.
#19 - Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/10/1971
While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.
#20 - The Last Laurel
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1971
Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - You Can't Get Help like That Anymore
Season 2 - Episode 59 - Aired 2/23/1972
An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.