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Night Gallery: Midnight Never Ends

A motorist and the hitchhiker she picks up, a Marine named Vincent Riley, experience deja vu and come to believe that they have to keep reliving the same situation until they "do it right."


7.5/10 (2 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 2x21
Production Number: 34310
Airdate: Wednesday November 03rd, 1971

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Rod Serling


Special Guest Stars
Susan StrasbergSusan Strasberg
As Ruth Asquith
Recurring

Guest Stars
Robert F. LyonsRobert F. Lyons
As Vincent Riley

Co-Guest Stars
Joseph V. PerryJoseph V. Perry
As Bateman (Joe Bateman (as Joseph Perry))
Robert KarnesRobert Karnes
As Sheriff (Sheriff Lewis)
Main Cast

Recap

Ruth Asquith is driving down the highway when she spots a Marine, Vincent Riley, hitching a ride to Camp Pendleton with a guitar slung over his back. She stops to pick him up and continues on. Vincent tries to make conversation, and Ruth finally says that she’s heading to Los Angeles, but won’t say why. The marine starts whistling and Ruth starts to whistle with him, and then asks what it is because it sounds familiar. Vincent explains that she couldn’t have heard it because he just wrote it, and he plans to become a songwriter when he gets out. However, he doesn’t know what he’s trying to get out of...

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Episode Quotes
Host: A most cordial welcome to this nocturnal arcade, featuring canvases that are sometimes a bit on the peculiar side, sometimes uncommon -- sometimes a few frescoes of the freakish. Tonight's first selection, a painting suggesting solitude, or at least solemnity, as viewed during the midnight hour. It tells a tale of two young people caught inexorably in a recurring nightmare with a finale on the jolting side. Our painting, with the somewhat familiar face, is called Midnight Never Ends, and this is the Night Gallery.



Other Episode Crew

CreatorRod Serling
ProducerJack Laird
Costume DesignerBill Jobe
Set DecoratorJohn M. Dwyer
Director of PhotographyLeonard J. South  |  Lionel Lindon
Art DirectorJoseph Alves, Jr.
Main Title DesignWayne Fitzgerald
Music ScoreOliver Nelson
Film EditorJean-Jacques Berthelot
SoundRoger A. Parish  |  David H. Moriarty (1)
Assistant DirectorRalph Sariego  |  Lester William Berke
Unit ManagerBurt Astor
Executive Story ConsultantGerald Sanford
Assistant To The ProducerAnthony Redman
Editorial SupervisorRichard Belding
Theme MusicGil Melle
Gallery PaintingsThomas J. Wright  |  Logan Elston  |  Phil Bandierle
 

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