Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

ramsfan Night Gallery was a decent follow up to Serling's vastly superior Twilight Zone series of a decade earlier. Leaning more toward the macabre, Night Gallery's adaptation of short stories produced some memorable episodes during its short run, including "The Caterpillar", "Green Fingers" and "The Doll". Serling's own feelings toward the show were lukewarm at best. Erring in judgment at the outset, Serling thought the producers would routinely defer to him on outside scripts and creative control of the show. He quickly realized they would do no such thing, and his disenchantment with stories that "didn't say something" eventually reached a crescendo. Nonetheless, Serling was contractually bound to host "NG" until its cancellation.Night Gallery fell victim to those who compared it (both unfavorably and unfairly) to episodes of "The Twilight Zone". Also hurting the series were episodes that were not of uniform length and the horrific "comedic" vignettes that producer Jack Laird found fit to round out each segment, many times ruining what was an otherwise effective, dramatic (half)hour of television.The show boasted some fine performances and some Emmy nominated segments, yet strangely, the show was neither embraced nor promoted by studio execs who clashed with Serling's concept of what the show should be. Fed up with the industry, Serling would die only a couple of years after "NG" left the air- a sad finale to a tremendous writer and major contributor to television.

paulbehrer22173 I've recently purchased the first and second seasons of Night Gallery on DVD and viewed them, and I have to admit that even after almost 40 years since the 3-segment pilot film, and the series itself, aired, it's still able to not only fill one's imagination with visions of all sorts of horrors, but also deals in sci-fi, fantasy, and nostalgia. 3 Bond Girls appeared here in this series: Martine Beswick (1 appearance, in the segment The Last Laurel, based on the short story The Horsehair Trunk by Davis Grubb, author of The Night of the Hunter), Lana Wood (1 appearance, in the segment You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore, where Wood appears as Model 931, a domestic android from Robot Aids, Inc who develops survival instincts which she uses against her abusive employers the Fultons, played by Broderick Crawford and Cloris Leachman), and Joanna Pettet (4 appearances in the series which are in the following order: the segment adapted by Rod Serling from the Andre Maurois short story The House, aired with its follow-up segment Certain Shadows on the Wall, which Serling adapted from the Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman short story The Shadows on the Wall, on December 30, 1970, Keep in Touch--We'll Think of Something, aired after The Dark Boy on November 24, 1971, The Caterpillar, aired on March 1, 1972, which was adapted by Serling from the short story Boomerang by Oscar Cook, which appeared in the anthology Switch on the Light, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson and published by Selwyn and Blount in London in 1931, and the segment adapted from the Fritz Leiber, Jr. short story The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Robert Malcolm Young, which was aired on October 1, 1972). John Astin and Geraldine Page had 3 appearances apiece, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price, Leslie Nielsen, Louise Sorel, and several other actors and actresses had 2 appearances here, with Bradford Dillman, Grayson Hall, and several others appearing in 1 segment for each season. I'm eagerly awaiting the 3rd season's release on DVD. It's simply a thought that I wished to express, nothing else. There aren't any spoilers present in this comment whatsoever.

jc1305us Often overlooked by the phenomenal success and pop culture landmark that Twilight Zone was and is, "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" was a much different show that never really lived up to it's potential. Viewed as three separate entities, i believe my thoughts will make more sense. After the cancellation of "TZ" Serling wanted to get back into television with another show, but this time, he had a different idea. "Rod Serling's Wax Museum" was his idea, and it consisted of episodes introduced by Serling, who, as the curator of a wax museum, would introduce the evening's stories accompanied by a wax figure relating to the tale. While this concept was never realized, the idea was the starting point for Night Gallery. In 1969, Serling presented "Night Gallery", a made for TV movie that included three stories, each introduced by a different painting. "The Cemetery" , "Eyes" and "The Escape Route". Receiving high ratings and critical praise, the show was greenlighted by Universal as a rotating series for the 1970-1971 TV season. The first season of "Rod Serling's Night Gallery", as it was now known, featured paintings revealed for each story, which now included several stories within the hour. As an anthology series, quality varied as different directors, and different script writers worked on different stories. However, "The Dead Man", "The House" "The Doll" and "They're Tearing Down Tim Reilley's Bar" which was nominated for a prime time emmy, stood out among the truncated first season. Serling, who served as the on screen host of the show and it's public face, was back. However, it wouldn't last long. Producer Jack Laird, brought on board for the first season was the de facto boss. All script and editorial decisions were his. Serling, weary of the grind of weekly TV, had decided to take a smaller role in the day to day affairs of the show, assuming that as creator and host, he would be consulted on scripts, and other decisions, he was in for a rude awakening. Beginning in the second, and best season, Night Gallery really got it's legs. The best of the series, in my opinion, are to be found here. Along with adaptations of great short fiction stories, such as "Cool Air", "Camera Obscura", "The Caterpillar", "Silent Snow Secret Snow", "A Death in the Family", "Pickman's Model", and many others, were excellent Serling originals, such as "Lindemann's Catch", "Deliveries in the Rear", and "Class of '99". One of the reasons is the great work of director Jeannot Szwarc, and cinematographer Lionel Lindon. However, strains were appearing between Serling and producer Laird, over the inclusion of short, comic viginettes, intended to round out the hour. Probably the most controversial aspect of this wonderful show.For the third and final 1972-1973 season, short sighted executives at Universal mandated that NG be cut to 30 minute episodes, with more emphasis on American fiction, as they deemed adaptations of British fiction, over the head of the American audience. Despite several fine episodes, including the chilling "The Other Way Out", Rod Serling's Night Gallery was cancelled. In all 98 story segements, which ranged from 3-30 minutes a piece were filmed. In order to increase profits from the show, Universal butchered the series to fit into 30 minute segements for the syndication package, thereby gutting the souls of these wonderful stories. To add insult to injury, another series "The Sixth Sense", an ESP themed bomb, was grafted on to Night Gallery in the syndication package further destroying NG's reputation. Serling, contractually bound, introduced the Sixth Sense episodes, as if they were Night Gallery. AFter the cancellation Serling stayed busy, but ultimately passed away in 1975, after surgery to correct a heart defect. He remained upset about the treatment he received by Universal and Laird until he passed away. Years later, after viewing Night Gallery in it's original format, we can see that there were, for all of it's warts, flashes of brilliance from this series. Macabre, eerie, sometimes frighteneing, and even humorous stories were all to be found, with enough differences to make them very fresh, and enough similarities to make them classics. If you're a fan of well told stories, then Night Gallery is for you.

gothick42 This is for the person who inquired about a cannibalism story involving Voodoo and a Hawaiian luau. This was not an episode of Night Gallery; it was one of the stories in the Amicus movie Tales that Witness Madness, which came out around the same time as Night Gallery was on (early Seventies). The Voodoo/cannibalism episode starred Kim Novak as the mother and Mary Tam (the first Romana on Dr. Who) as her daughter. The episode seemed to have been filmed missing the climactic twist ending. To put it mildly, the whole thing seemed to be a mistake. Still, it's fun to watch Kim Novak essaying an affected performance style that makes one wonder whether she was directed to play the role as a retired female drag queen!