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Post by mszanadu on Mar 1, 2017 17:39:37 GMT
anyone here a fan of this show that was hosted by Rod Serling ( and had some wonderfully eerie paintings done by artist Tom Wright ) ?   |
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Post by kimgoo on Mar 1, 2017 17:52:34 GMT
I watched it years ago on Encore. It was enjoyable. Haven't seen it in a long time so I wouldn't mind rewatching.
The paintings were great!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 18:25:59 GMT
It's on Hulu. It's hit and miss, but I liked it overall.
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 1, 2017 18:53:34 GMT
I watched it years ago on Encore. It was enjoyable. Haven't seen it in a long time so I wouldn't mind rewatching. The paintings were great! Excellent kimgoo ! This show has been shown on the channel MeTV - late 2AM and to my recollection it was not the true episodes either ( like the original proper ones on the DVD collection ? )  . It was the syndicated episodes that ( IMPO ) were badly patched together with very odd stock clip footage that didn't make a whole lot of sense to the original storylines either   . I highly recommend if you do re-watch this show to get the collection on DVD ( IMPO ) . It would be way more worth it too - plus some extras on this also . Thanks kimgoo for your reply  . |
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 1, 2017 19:10:29 GMT
It's on Hulu. It's hit and miss, but I liked it overall. I only hope the ones you watched on Hulu Jan El Señor were not the syndicated versions from MeTV ( the DVD ones are way better in quality etc. ) . So sadly those MeTV versions are not the true episodes  . I don't get why this great channel like that shows those odd episode versions  . Thanks Jan El Señor for your reply . |
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Post by bd74 on Mar 1, 2017 19:16:28 GMT
 Thank you for starting a thread on this. I like this show a lot. Though, many of its episodes were actually not scary (at least not by today's standards). And also, I never liked the comedic episodes. I feel like they ruined the overall vibe of the show. I love the Night Gallery theme music, and I mentioned it in another thread as one of my favorite 70s tv show themes: imdb2.freeforums.net/post/19638I also liked Night Gallery's pilot, which was a film made in 1969, starring Roddy McDowall and Joan Crawford, and it featured 3 episodes. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 19:45:01 GMT
I only hope the ones you watched on Hulu were not the syndicated versions from MeTV I'm pretty sure Hulu has the DVD versions, as that's what they tend to have for all their other shows.... |
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 2, 2017 16:10:01 GMT
I only hope the ones you watched on Hulu were not the syndicated versions from MeTV I'm pretty sure Hulu has the DVD versions, as that's what they tend to have for all their other shows.... That's really good to know Jan El Señor because the DVD version is a way better quality and was done with such care to the original showing than the " syndicated versions " that MeTV Channel shows . A few years ago some of us Night Gallery fans signed a series of petitions to get this entire show on DVD and of course it was a success - thankfully  . IMPO - I love this show and it was worth every penny to own for the DVD Library - never tire of this one either . |
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 2, 2017 16:31:43 GMT
Thank you for starting a thread on this. I like this show a lot. Though, many of its episodes were actually not scary (at least not by today's standards). And also, I never liked the comedic episodes. I feel like they ruined the overall vibe of the show. I love the Night Gallery theme music, and I mentioned it in another thread as one of my favorite 70s tv show themes: imdb2.freeforums.net/post/19638I also liked Night Gallery's pilot, which was a film made in 1969, starring Roddy McDowall and Joan Crawford, and it featured 3 episodes. You're most welcome bd74 . Although I do agree some of the episode short stories are not very scary  . It would seem to me these episodes are more on the side of a " creepy mystery that keeps you really thinking about it " even long after you have watched the episode short stories . I find that extremely clever & impressive for a cult following show too . Also really liked the movie pilot from 1969 too ( especially the first short story - " The Cemetery " with Roddy McDowall )  . As for the music - IMPO - total perfection and so relaxing also  . Thanks so much bd74 for your reply and link too . |
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Post by kimgoo on Mar 2, 2017 17:09:23 GMT
I watched it years ago on Encore. It was enjoyable. Haven't seen it in a long time so I wouldn't mind rewatching. The paintings were great! Excellent kimgoo ! This show has been shown on the channel MeTV - late 2AM and to my recollection it was not the true episodes either ( like the original proper ones on the DVD collection ? ) . It was the syndicated episodes that ( IMPO ) were badly patched together with very odd stock clip footage that didn't make a whole lot of sense to the original storylines either . I highly recommend if you do re-watch this show to get the collection on DVD ( IMPO ) . It would be way more worth it too - plus some extras on this also . Thanks kimgoo for your reply . I do remember seeing it on the MeTV schedule. I'll have to record some of them. I also remember reading complaints of Encore butchering the crap out of the episodes when they aired on that network. Anyway, I want to mention the one about the girl who befriended the big wad of foliage. That was one of the most bizarre things I've ever watched. |
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 2, 2017 18:51:25 GMT
Excellent kimgoo ! This show has been shown on the channel MeTV - late 2AM and to my recollection it was not the true episodes either ( like the original proper ones on the DVD collection ? ) . It was the syndicated episodes that ( IMPO ) were badly patched together with very odd stock clip footage that didn't make a whole lot of sense to the original storylines either . I highly recommend if you do re-watch this show to get the collection on DVD ( IMPO ) . It would be way more worth it too - plus some extras on this also . Thanks kimgoo for your reply . I do remember seeing it on the MeTV schedule. I'll have to record some of them. I also remember reading complaints of Encore butchering the crap out of the episodes when they aired on that network. Anyway, I want to mention the one about the girl who befriended the big wad of foliage. That was one of the most bizarre things I've ever watched. Oh no Encore channel too ? Yikes !  Now it's merged with STARS so now it's - STARZENCORE ? The episode short story called " Brenda " ( season 2 episode 7 ) and paired with the first short story - " Midnight Never Ends " both are top favorites of mine here too . This show is definitely a somewhat " food for thought " of the dark , memorable , & unique kind . If you don't already have it I would also recommend the book - ROD SERLING'S NIGHT GALLERY AN AFTER HOURS TOUR By Writers - Scott Skelton and Jim Benson Most interesting reading and explanations of the short story episodes of this entire series . Again thanks kimgoo for your reply . |
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Post by kimgoo on Mar 2, 2017 19:34:38 GMT
I do remember seeing it on the MeTV schedule. I'll have to record some of them. I also remember reading complaints of Encore butchering the crap out of the episodes when they aired on that network. Anyway, I want to mention the one about the girl who befriended the big wad of foliage. That was one of the most bizarre things I've ever watched. Oh no Encore channel too ? Yikes ! Now it's merged with STARS so now it's - STARZENCORE ? The episode short story called " Brenda " ( season 2 episode 7 ) and paired with the first short story - " Midnight Never Ends " both are top favorites of mine here too . This show is definitely a somewhat " food for thought " of the dark , memorable , & unique kind . If you don't already have it I would also recommend the book - ROD SERLING'S NIGHT GALLERY AN AFTER HOURS TOUR By Writers - Scott Skelton and Jim Benson Most interesting reading and explanations of the short story episodes of this entire series . Again thanks kimgoo for your reply . Encore was the first place I had watched it so I didn't know any better at the time. That was around 2003, 2004 I guess. My niece was about two and was terrified by the intro.  Yeah, Brenda was the name! Midnight Never Ends; I'm assuming I saw it at some point, but don't recall it by the title alone. |
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Post by telegonus on Mar 2, 2017 20:39:12 GMT
anyone here a fan of this show that was hosted by Rod Serling ( and had some wonderfully eerie paintings done by artist Tom Wright ) ? I liked Night Gallery but was never a big fan of it. Some of its episodes play very well in reruns, better than they did first run. When it was first broadcast, and even now, I think that the show suffered from, first off, host Rod Serling's not having creative control over the material, which was often routine. Secondly, the fact that the producers could never make up their mind which way to go with it. In an ideal world it would have started one way and then, after a spell of trying a little bit of this and a little bit of that evolved, like the much earlier Thriller did, into a first rate horror anthology with a style all its own, but it didn't happen like that. It was horror to start with, which more or less sealed the deal, and it did have a style of its own, and it was a unique one, and pretty much stuck with it. Fond as I am of Rod Serling he probably wasn't (and I know that this might sound heretical to some) the ideal guy to be hosting a show like Night Gallery. He was a serious dramatist with a social conscience who could venture into fantasy and whimsy now and again, as he did on The Twilight Zone, wasn't a big one for horror or sci-fi unless he had a moral or "message" in it. Ideally, IMO, Night Gallery ought to have been a straight, serious horror show, allowed for the occasional humorous episode. Flawed as it was I find that Night Gallery at its best holds up very nicely, and more than most shows of its era, the early Seventies, it channels the mood of those years better than many if not most of shows, rather surprisingly given its subject matter. A decent series overall, with some first rate episodes. |
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Post by kimgoo on Mar 3, 2017 1:28:59 GMT
It looks like MeTV has taken it off its schedule.
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 3, 2017 3:39:11 GMT
It looks like MeTV has taken it off its schedule. Somehow that doesn't surprise me either kimgoo . Most likely because it was on so late on weeknights no one was able to watch it perhaps ( or realized this channel was showing the wrong version episodes - IMPO ) . Again I do recommend watching it on DVD or like Jan El Señor said check it out on Hulu too ( it will definitely be worth it ) . Thanks for letting me know about this too kimgoo . |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 7:11:06 GMT
Yes, love this show
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 3, 2017 18:51:52 GMT
anyone here a fan of this show that was hosted by Rod Serling ( and had some wonderfully eerie paintings done by artist Tom Wright ) ? I liked Night Gallery but was never a big fan of it. Some of its episodes play very well in reruns, better than they did first run. When it was first broadcast, and even now, I think that the show suffered from, first off, host Rod Serling's not having creative control over the material, which was often routine. Secondly, the fact that the producers could never make up their mind which way to go with it. In an ideal world it would have started one way and then, after a spell of trying a little bit of this and a little bit of that evolved, like the much earlier Thriller did, into a first rate horror anthology with a style all its own, but it didn't happen like that. It was horror to start with, which more or less sealed the deal, and it did have a style of its own, and it was a unique one, and pretty much stuck with it. Fond as I am of Rod Serling he probably wasn't (and I know that this might sound heretical to some) the ideal guy to be hosting a show like Night Gallery. He was a serious dramatist with a social conscience who could venture into fantasy and whimsy now and again, as he did on The Twilight Zone, wasn't a big one for horror or sci-fi unless he had a moral or "message" in it. Ideally, IMO, Night Gallery ought to have been a straight, serious horror show, allowed for the occasional humorous episode. Flawed as it was I find that Night Gallery at its best holds up very nicely, and more than most shows of its era, the early Seventies, it channels the mood of those years better than many if not most of shows, rather surprisingly given its subject matter. A decent series overall, with some first rate episodes. I think the best things about this show that made me a fan of it was - the intriguing short stories , the music , the themed paintings , the well selected actors & actresses , and of course Rod Serling as the host of this show too . The other stuff you mentioned above here I did not learn till well after I was already a fan of this show . Which it's sad that all of that " intrusive behind the scenes mess" did come to pass as is  . I believe overall the network etc. should have not interfered and just let RS -" work his magic " with this show like he did with Twilight Zone . I remember on one of the episodes of " The Dick Cavett Show " in which Rod Serling was on - he said out right in the interview that - Night Gallery was not his show he was just a host of it . Of course I'm still glad I did get the entire collection on DVD and also bought the book about this unique show too . Thanks so much telegonus for your excellent and very well put reply here too . |
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Post by poelzig on Mar 4, 2017 4:56:03 GMT
I remember my parents watching them in syndication when I was a kid and being creeped out. One about a guy having his feet chopped off after being in a car accident may have influenced Stephen King's Misery. I also recall something about a brooch shaped like a mouse or something eating a woman and a kid that had a closet in his house that led to a cabin covered in snow.
It's possible I'm misremembering some or all of those episodes. They may have even been eps of a different TV show. |
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Post by telegonus on Mar 4, 2017 8:12:27 GMT
They tend to rotate certain shows on MeTV. My sense is that Night Gallery is still in their mix. It may pop up later this year, maybe as a summer replacement for The Twilight Zone, or maybe they'll give it another shot late night/early A.M.
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Post by tresix on Mar 4, 2017 17:16:51 GMT
When it was on Me-TV, I always thought it they should have paired it with "Twilight Zone". At midnight.
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