# Anyone enjoy Night Gallery? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721 "2020-06-15T20:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/21 "2020-06-16T22:47:06Z")
I loved _Night Gallery_ back in the day, never missed an episode. That nasty little mouse pin really fucked me up as a kid, and to this day I wouldn’t mind having some of the paintings from the Gallery. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/22 "2020-06-16T23:11:04Z")
Some NG syndication packages chopped the episodes down to 30 minutes. The Leslie-Nielsen-spends-a-night-in-a-haunted-house episode had 10 of its 40 minutes excised and made almost no sense. Elsa Lanchester in, “Green Fingers,” was one of my faves; creeeepy. Cameron Mitchell was aces. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/23 "2020-06-17T01:02:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [Here’s a link](https://www.nbc.com/night-gallery/video/a-fear-of-spiders-junior-an-act-of-chivalry/3969142); “Junior,” starts at 22:30. You might have to sit through some commercials. Thank you! Yeah, “Green Fingers” was one of my favorites, too. LOVE Elsa. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/24 "2020-06-17T23:21:50Z")
I like the odd and quirky feel to it, but keep pining for TZ suspense. I like it for the time-capsule feel. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/25 "2020-06-18T01:30:47Z")
Speaking of Elsa Lanchester, I was visiting the National Portrait Gallery in London last spring and was charmed to find her pic exhibited, at age 23. > **[Elsa Lanchester - National Portrait Gallery](https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw12327)** > > by Doris Zinkeisen > oil on canvas > exhibited 1925 > © estate of Doris Clare Zinkeisen The nice thing about that museum is that they rotate the paintings annually…three years ago, I found a wonderful 1919 portrait of Aleister Crowley, of all people. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/26 "2020-06-18T01:41:28Z")
> **[Edward Alexander ('Aleister') Crowley - National Portrait Gallery](https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw67965/Edward-Alexander-Aleister-Crowley)** > > by Leon Engers Kennedy > oil on canvas > 1917-1918 > © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/27 "2020-06-22T21:33:49Z")
I loved the show when it aired. Some of the episodes really scared the crap out of me and my brothers. Way, WAY back in 1976 on my first visit to Universal Studios in LA, tucked away in some back corner was this small gallery that had a handful of the original paintings from Night Gallery. They were awesome to see in real life. It was the highlight of that visit, and I’d wished they had more. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/28 "2020-06-23T00:54:42Z")
The one with Leslie Nielsen has already been mentioned, so I’ll add “Pickman’s Model” for extra creep factor. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/29 "2020-06-23T16:23:33Z")
I watched it as a kid. The only segment that has really stuck in my memory is “A Fear Of Spiders” with Patrick O’Neal. I bet it would look pretty cheesy now, but back then it absolutely _terrified_ me! (If I watched it in first run I would have been 8 years old.) ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721/30 "2020-06-24T04:02:47Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Be careful; in syndication, some “Night Gallery” episodes were really episodes of _The Sixth Sense_ cut from their original hour-long formats Thanks for this, Amazon Prime currently has the first season of NG which has about 3 or 4 normal episodes and the rest are “The Sixth Sense.” I was wondering what was going on! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-enjoy-night-gallery/855721.md?page=1)