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Night Gallery :: Night Gallery (01x00)

Episode Information

Title:

Night Gallery

Original Airdate:

Saturday November 08th, 1969

Special Airtime:

09:00 pm

Special Runtime:

120 Minutes

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Episode Crew
Director:	Boris Sagal Barry Shear Steven Spielberg
Writer:	Rod Serling

Episode Summary

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In three separate segments: 1) A murderer disposes of his uncle but learns the hard way that death isn't necessarily permanent; 2) a rich blind woman seeks a donor at any cost for a few hours of vision at the cost of the donor's eyesight permanently; and 3) a Nazi officer on the run in South America seeks to escape his past once and for all finds escape in an idyllic painting.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Barry Atwater	played	Carson	Recurring (first appearance)
•Barry Sullivan	played	Dr. Heatherton	Recurring (first appearance)
•Tom Bosley	played	Resnick	Recurring (first appearance)
•Byron Morrow	played	Packer
•Gary Goodrow	played	Louis
•George MacReady	played	Hendricks
•George Murdock	played	1st Agent
•Joan Crawford (1)	played	Miss Menlo
•Norma Crane	played	Gretchen
•Ossie Davis	played	Portifoy
•Richard Kiley	played	Strobe
•Roddy McDowall	played	Jeremy
•Sam Jaffe	played	Bleum
•Shannon Farnon	played	1st Nurse
•Tom Basham	played	Gibbons

Main Cast

•Rod Serling

played

Host

Episode Notes

There were three paintings/segments: "The Cemetery" (Boris Segal), "Eyes" (d: Steven Spielberg), and "Escape Route" (d: Barry Shear).

Episode Quotes

Host: Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collector's item in its own way -- not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare. "Our initial offering: a small gothic item in blacks and grays. A piece of the past known as the family crypt. This one we call simply, The Cemetery. Offered to you now, six feet of earth and all that it contains. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Night Gallery.

Host: Objet d'art number two: a portrait. Its subject, Miss Claudia Menlo, a blind queen who reigns in a carpeted penthouse on Fifth Avenue. An imperious, predatory dowager who will soon find a darkness blacker than blindness. This is her story.

Host: And now, the final painting. The last of our exhibit has to do with one Joseph Strobe, a Nazi war criminal hiding in South America -- a monster who wanted to be a fisherman. This is his story.