Rod Serling's Night Gallery talk

[Mikey]

Been DVRing some Night Gallery's on MeTV and I must say they're not very good.

Back in the day when they were new I remember being really scared of them.

Today, they seem like bad throw-aways from season-5 of Twilight Zone.

Not only are they not scarry, but many are crazy boring .... Just watched one with Arte Johnson and it totally sucked.

One a seperate note I always thought Gary Collins starred in all of them ? .... so far he wasn't in any I seen.

[The Toyroom]

Gary Collins starred in "The Sixth Sense", a show totally separate from "Night Gallery". However when it came time to syndicate "Night Gallery" they decided to add the episodes from "The Sixth Sense" to the package. But since the syndie "Gallery" was a half-hour, they cut up the "Sixth Sense" episodes and had Serling do framing intros to speed along the plot in order to fit a half-hour format. There were about 25 original episodes of "Sixth Sense".

[wayne foundation 07]

I liked the one where the lady had green thumbs, you remember that one? She grew a whole new her.I got them on disk from the library, yeah some are better than others.

[The Toyroom]

As far as "Night Gallery" itself....Yeah it's hit or miss...Mostly miss IMO...

[Mikey]

Gary Collins starred in "The Sixth Sense", a show totally separate from "Night Gallery". However when it came time to syndicate "Night Gallery" they decided to add the episodes from "The Sixth Sense" to the package. But since the syndie "Gallery" was a half-hour, they cut up the "Sixth Sense" episodes and had Serling do framing intros to speed along the plot in order to fit a half-hour format. There were about 25 original episodes of "Sixth Sense".

Oooohh,

Interesting

[Mikey]

The ones I seen recently

Arte Johnson --- stinkeroo

Frankenstein as a baby in a crib --- no comment

Sondra Locke with a giant mouse on her ---- stinkeroo

Spider in guy's apartment grows giant ---- meh

Desi Jr in a morgue ---- predictable ending

[wayne foundation 07]

Do you remember the one about the beetle broach? Thats a pretty good one.

[Mikey]

Yea, that was the Sondra Locke one

They just played it like last week

[wayne foundation 07]

Yea, that was the Sondra Locke one

They just played it like last week

holy cow, I never noticed it was her, wow she was young then, must have been one of her first things she did.

[PNGwynne]

I like "Camera Obscura", "Pickman's Model", "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" "Cool Air", & others. The early, literary adaptations hold up best, but you are right--NG has a cheap, uneven quality. The "funny" bits are usually not funny.

"Class of 1999" (?) with Vincent price is good, too.

[thunderbolt]

been watching them lately on Hulu and they hold up better than I remember. Love the opening credits.

[Mikey]

It seems most Night Galleries have what I call the Stephan King's "IT" syndrome

... meaning, they're good from the beginning and all the way through --- and then the end is a total let-down.

[C.H.O.A.M.]

yeah they're pretty uneven as a whole.
there are plenty of reasons for that (according to the internets) like serling was unhappy with the producers decision to add light hearted (comical? hardly. embarrassing is more like it) segments. he supposedly wanted a darker program.
that being said, there were some really good episodes.
some that I remember were "death in the family" (wow!), "the cemetery", "the academy", "silent snow, secret snow" (wow again!), "brenda" and "big surprise"