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Night Gallery: Something in the Woodwork
A bitter, divorced alcoholic deliberately buys a home with a ghost in the attic, and plans to convince it to help her get revenge on her ex-husband.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x12 Production Number: 35229 Airdate: Sunday January 14th, 1973 |
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Recap
Molly Wheatland has purchased an old house to move into after her divorce. She is setting the table for a birthday dinner when the repairman, Joe Wilson, comes downstairs. Molly tells him that she’s setting the table for her ex-husband, Charlie, and begs Joe into staying for coffee. While she drinks, Molly regales Joe with stories about Charlie. When he tries to leave, Molly asks about the attic room, and Joe says that it’s locked and he doesn’t have the key. Molly tells him to cut open the door, and asks if he heard from his father what happened in the attic 30 years ago. Joe feigns ignorance and Molly talks about how Jamie Dilman, a bank robber, took refuge in the attic but was gunned down by the police. The realtor was unable to sell the house, reputed to be haunted, until Molly decided to buy it, insisting that nothing ever scans her...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the short story "Housebound" by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Episode Quotes
Host: Good evening. On behalf of the management, I'm authorized to tell you that your presence here gives them great pleasure. They'd all be here to greet you personally if not for prior commitments. Several are attending funerals, and would've been here if it weren't so difficult to get out of the box -- which should give you some idea as to the nature of our art. Now this painting, for example. Stairway and spectre, cobwebs and darkness. It's called Something in the Woodwork. It tells of what one might look for when purchasing a house, because that creak you hear in the dead of night is not always an errant rafter. Sometimes if you walk up those attic steps you'll find yourself face to face with the very thing that goes thump in the night. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Night Gallery.
Molly Wheatland: Oh, I don't need you. I've got friends of my own. Friends of mine own. Upstairs. In the attic. I've got a friend up there, Charlie. He lives behind the walls, in the woodwork. He's made of shadow. And at that, there's more to him than some ex-husbands I know.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Jack Laird |
| • Associate Producer | Anthony Redman | Burt Astor | Herbert Wright |
| • Music | Eddie Sauter |
| • Music Supervisor | Hal Mooney |
| • Costume Designer | Bill Jobe |
| • Set Decorator | John M. Dwyer |
| • Director of Photography | Lloyd Ahern (1) |
| • Art Director | Joseph Alves, Jr. |
| • Main Title Design | Wayne Fitzgerald |
| • Film Editor | Sam Vitale |
| • Sound | Roger A. Parish |
| • Assistant Director | Chuck Lowry |
| • Unit Manager | Burt Astor |
| • Editorial Supervisor | Richard Belding |
| • Gallery Paintings | Thomas J. Wright | Phil Bandierle |
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