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.
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.
Thank you!
Yeah, “Green Fingers” was one of my favorites, too. LOVE Elsa.
I like the odd and quirky feel to it, but keep pining for TZ suspense. I like it for the time-capsule feel.
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.
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.
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.
The one with Leslie Nielsen has already been mentioned, so I’ll add “Pickman’s Model” for extra creep factor.
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.)
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!