Storyline
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Episodes
Specials
No overview available for this season.
The Cemetary / Eyes / Escape Route
Nov 08, 1969
Pilot episode containing the first three stories. After murdering his uncle, a man is haunted by a family painting which keeps changing. A blind woman undergoes an operation that gives her 12 hours of eyesight. A fugitive Nazi faces the consequences of his past actions.
Die Now, Pay Later
Mar 16, 1972
An undertaker holds a clearance sale to get rid of excess stock, but is surprised when the local sheriff points out that there has been a subsequent rise in the number of "accidental" deaths.
Room for One Less
Mar 19, 1972
A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Mar 22, 1972
An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.
Revisiting the Gallery: A Look Back
Mar 25, 1972
Interviews with some of the people who worked on the show. They discuss Rod Serling, producer/director/writer Jack Laird, and what it was like working for them.
NBC Night Gallery TV Promos
Mar 29, 1972
Art Gallery: The Paintings in Rod Serling's Night Gallery
Apr 01, 1972
interview with Tom Wright, the artist who did all of the paintings used for the show. He talks about the process of getting the paintings done for each story and who he used as models.
The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 1: The First Season
Nov 23, 2021
A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.
The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 2: The Second Season
Jul 26, 2022
A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.
The Syndication Conundrum: Night Gallery's Horrific Second Life in Reruns - Part 3: The Third Season
Nov 22, 2022
A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.
Die Now, Pay Later / Room for One Less / Witches Feast / Little Girl Lost
Sep 22, 1971
An undertaker slashes funeral prices at a January clearance sale. A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners. A group of witches goes through a menu. A scientific genius is troubled by the death of his daughter.
Season 1
No overview available for this season.
The Dead Man / The House Keeper
Dec 16, 1970
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.
Room with a View / The Little Black Bag / The Nature of the Enemy
Dec 23, 1970
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.
The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
Dec 30, 1970
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.
Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
Jan 06, 1971
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.
Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
Jan 13, 1971
A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped. A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled "Titanic", three years after the liner sank. A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.
They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
Jan 20, 1971
A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past. Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.
Season 2
No overview available for this season.
The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
Sep 15, 1971
A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.
A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
Sep 22, 1971
Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.
Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
Sep 29, 1971
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.
A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
Oct 06, 1971
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.
The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Oct 20, 1971
A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.
A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
Oct 27, 1971
An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.
Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
Nov 03, 1971
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.
The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
Nov 10, 1971
A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.
House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
Nov 17, 1971
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.
The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
Nov 24, 1971
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.
Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
Dec 01, 1971
A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.
Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
Dec 08, 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. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.
The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror
Dec 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. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.
The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
Dec 29, 1971
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.
Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
Jan 05, 1972
An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.
Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
Jan 12, 1972
A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.
The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
Jan 19, 1972
An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.
The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
Jan 26, 1972
A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. 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.
Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
Feb 09, 1972
A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.
I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
Feb 16, 1972
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.
The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
Feb 23, 1972
A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.
The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
Mar 01, 1972
A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.
Season 3
No overview available for this season.
The Return of the Sorcerer
Sep 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.
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Oct 01, 1972
A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.
Rare Objects
Oct 22, 1972
A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.
Spectre in Tap-Shoes
Oct 29, 1972
After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
Nov 12, 1972
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.
The Other Way Out
Nov 19, 1972
Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.
Fright Night
Dec 10, 1972
Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.
Finnegan's Flight
Dec 17, 1972
A prisoner for life yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter, with tragic results.
She'll Be Company for You
Dec 24, 1972
After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Jan 07, 1973
The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.
Something in the Woodwork
Jan 14, 1973
A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.
Death on a Barge
Mar 04, 1973
A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.
Whisper
May 13, 1973
A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.
The Doll of Death
May 20, 1973
A spurned plantation owner in the British West Indies enlists the power of voodoo to avenge himself against a romantic rival.
Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
May 27, 1973
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.