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Post by mszanadu on Nov 26, 2017 0:55:44 GMT
I thought it was a very good show with several classic episodes, some of which have been mentioned on this thread. Strange how the memory can be jogged. Earlier in the year I was engaged in a discussion about the possibility that "reality" as we know it is actually a simulation, and I was reminded of a Night Gallery episode which dealt with this. If I remember correctly it was called "Midnight Never Ends." " Midnight Never Ends " - with Susan Strasberg & Robert F. Lyons ( season 2 episode 7 - first short story - 11 / 3 / 1971 ) Most definitely agree here The Herald Erjen this was a very clever & unique short story episode and also another favorite of mine too . I also thought the music in this one was was real mysterious yet relaxing too . Thanks so much The Herald Erjen for your reply .
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Nov 26, 2017 1:26:27 GMT
I thought it was a very good show with several classic episodes, some of which have been mentioned on this thread. Strange how the memory can be jogged. Earlier in the year I was engaged in a discussion about the possibility that "reality" as we know it is actually a simulation, and I was reminded of a Night Gallery episode which dealt with this. If I remember correctly it was called "Midnight Never Ends." " Midnight Never Ends " - with Susan Strasberg & Robert F. Lyons ( season 2 episode 7 - first short story - 11 / 3 / 1971 ) Most definitely agree here The Herald Erjen this was a very clever & unique short story episode and also another favorite of mine too . I also thought the music in this one was was real mysterious yet relaxing too . Thanks so much The Herald Erjen for your reply . You are welcome, mszanadu. Good thread.
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 26, 2017 3:10:22 GMT
" Midnight Never Ends " - with Susan Strasberg & Robert F. Lyons ( season 2 episode 7 - first short story - 11 / 3 / 1971 ) Most definitely agree here The Herald Erjen this was a very clever & unique short story episode and also another favorite of mine too . I also thought the music in this one was was real mysterious yet relaxing too . Thanks so much The Herald Erjen for your reply . You are welcome, mszanadu. Good thread. Thanks again The Herald Erjen for your kind and encouraging words here too .
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Nov 26, 2017 14:18:25 GMT
You are welcome, mszanadu. Good thread. Thanks again The Herald Erjen for your kind and encouraging words here too . No problem. I went looking for it yesterday. YouTube didn't have it. Maybe they did once but not anymore. It was on Dailymotion and Hulu, but with Hulu you have to start an account it seems. The Dailymotion clip was a bit of a disappointment. The credits, the road signs, and Robert F. Lyon's sign that said Camp Pendleton or Bust were all backwards, and Susan Strasbourg was driving a car with right-hand steering. Evidently someone played it on the flipside. The second story in that episode was called "Brenda" and I remember it too. It was disturbing, about a mean little girl whom no one liked (with good reasons) and she had a monster for her only friend. Been trying to remember the name of the actress who played Brenda. When she was older she appeared on Barnaby Jones. I suppose I'll eventually have to cheat and look up her name. Ah, that was back when TV was good, instead of the state-sponsored brainwashing we have now, IMO.
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 26, 2017 19:33:45 GMT
Thanks again The Herald Erjen for your kind and encouraging words here too . No problem. I went looking for it yesterday. YouTube didn't have it. Maybe they did once but not anymore. It was on Dailymotion and Hulu, but with Hulu you have to start an account it seems. The Dailymotion clip was a bit of a disappointment. The credits, the road signs, and Robert F. Lyon's sign that said Camp Pendleton or Bust were all backwards, and Susan Strasbourg was driving a car with right-hand steering. Evidently someone played it on the flipside. The second story in that episode was called "Brenda" and I remember it too. It was disturbing, about a mean little girl whom no one liked (with good reasons) and she had a monster for her only friend. Been trying to remember the name of the actress who played Brenda. When she was older she appeared on Barnaby Jones. I suppose I'll eventually have to cheat and look up her name. Ah, that was back when TV was good, instead of the state-sponsored brainwashing we have now, IMO. I totally agree here The Herald Erjen we had some really good quality TV Shows ( also movies ) from the 1970's , 80's , & the other decades way before too ( I'm mostly into the retro and classic programming myself ) . If I may make a suggestion to you about this fine yet mysterious TV show Night Gallery . Also if you really like this show a lot ( especially the way I do too ) and want to see it the way it's properly shown as well . I highly recommend owning the entire NG Collection on DVD even though all 3 seasons are sold separately ( well at least a few years ago when I purchased it ) but still having all 3 seasons are so worth every penny to own - really . I have this entire collection on DVD myself ( and I never tire of watching it either ) really you won't be disappointed with this fine collection either - it's so worth it ( every season is quality done and has a few extras in it too ) . I also found this for you too the child actress in the Night Gallery short story episode " Brenda " is Laurie Prange . Again thanks so much The Herald Erjen for your interest in this fine NG show and your kind replies .
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 27, 2017 1:19:53 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. Marmalade Wine
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Post by geode on Nov 8, 2018 10:59:57 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 ) ? When it first came on I was very disappointed in it so I only watched a few episodes. It came across as "Twilight Zone Lite" to me. I never got back to it.
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 21, 2018 5:51:20 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 ) ? When it first came on I was very disappointed in it so I only watched a few episodes. It came across as "Twilight Zone Lite" to me. I never got back to it.
IMPO - If you do decide to re-watch this show again
don't watch the TV Versions those are the syndicated ones
and not the true episodes those were ruined by the network .
The best versions to watch is on DVD only .
This show is actually quite different than Twilight Zone was
because it deals more on the side of horror and not the 5th Dimension
Also as Rod Serling has mentioned
this show was not his and he only hosted it .
Although I still highly recommend giving it a second chance
definitely watching it again
but with the correct episodes on DVD of course .
Thanks so much geode for your reply .
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Post by geode on Nov 21, 2018 8:06:49 GMT
When it first came on I was very disappointed in it so I only watched a few episodes. It came across as "Twilight Zone Lite" to me. I never got back to it. IMPO - If you do decide to re-watch this show again
don't watch the TV Versions those are the syndicated ones
and not the true episodes those were ruined by the network . The best versions to watch is on DVD only . This show is actually quite different than Twilight Zone was
because it deals more on the side of horror and not the 5th Dimension
Also as Rod Serling has mentioned
this show was not his and he only hosted it . Although I still highly recommend giving it a second chance
definitely watching it again
but with the correct episodes on DVD of course . Thanks so much geode for your reply . I remember Rod Serling talking about it all those decades ago and if I remember correctly he has trying to disown it to some extent. I think another problem for me was the multiple stories in each show without proper time to develop enough plot or depth. Perhaps its leaning towards horror was another reason I found it less interesting. I have been where there is no access at all to the show, so it seldom has seldom come to mind in decades.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 21, 2018 9:59:44 GMT
Night Gallery regular Joanna Pettit is featured as a character in Tarantino's Hollywood movie according to the IMDB listing. Played by....Rumer Willis!?!
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Post by amyghost on Nov 21, 2018 22:20:58 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. I remember the mouse brooch one. Norman Lloyd made it more memorable than it might have deserved to be otherwise, but even though there was a definite hit or miss quality to a lot of the episodes it still managed to generate some that were creepy as hell, and still stand up today. Kind of a shame Rod himself was so disparaging of the series, because its best installments deserve more respect than the series overall seems to get.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 21, 2018 22:26:00 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. Marmalade WineGot an error message on that link, but if I recall correctly, wasn't that the one with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee? What I can remember of that episode was pretty scary even though there was a bit of a comedic spin put on it.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 22, 2018 9:41:57 GMT
Got an error message on that link, but if I recall correctly, wasn't that the one with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee? What I can remember of that episode was pretty scary even though there was a bit of a comedic spin put on it.
Go to 28:18 for "Marmalade Wine"...
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 22, 2018 9:51:01 GMT
Got an error message on that link, but if I recall correctly, wasn't that the one with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee? What I can remember of that episode was pretty scary even though there was a bit of a comedic spin put on it.
I noticed that the credits are reversed (as in a mirror) I WONDER WHY this IS?!
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Post by amyghost on Nov 22, 2018 14:16:57 GMT
Got an error message on that link, but if I recall correctly, wasn't that the one with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee? What I can remember of that episode was pretty scary even though there was a bit of a comedic spin put on it.
I noticed that the credits are reversed (as in a mirror) I WONDER WHY this IS?!Maybe a flipped print? That's the episode, though. Morse and Vallee were reunited after their successful stint in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. They made a good team, and the sort of Waiting for Godot-style set design is a nice touch.
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Post by telegonus on Aug 30, 2019 7:32:16 GMT
ecarle, here(trying to figure out how to make this thread work. My apologies.) Night Gallery felt a bit "retro" with its 1969/1970 launch. With Rod Serling on board(alas, as the host rather than as the showrunner/host) memories of TTZ were immediate...though there was a "You Can't Go Home Again" feeling to the show. The key reason for that was: it was in COLOR. And it was the color scheme of cookie cutter Universal TV of the time. Often shot on the cookie cutter Universal sets of the time. Still, rather like the Universal TV series Columbo, Night Gallery managed to stake out its own special personality even AS it looked like every other color 1970s Universal show. Columbo consistently had better writing than most TV; Night Gallery sometimes did. And the series shared guest stars of some cachet. For instance, Laurence Harvey -- a film actor of note in the sixties(The Alamo, The Manchurian Candidate, Room at the Top in the fifties), evidently signed a Universal contract that made him a guest killer on Columbo in one case, and a guest victim on Night Gallery in the other. (His NG episode was one of the "gory in the imagination" ones-- with a fictionalized "earwig" going in one ear and out of the other, causing horrible pain...and being found to have LAID EGGS in Harvey's brain!) Another notable Night Gallery brought back a fifties/sixties Method icon -- Kim Stanley -- in a scary little number about a spider that keeps growing(tiny) and growing(rat size) and growing (LARGE DOG sized) in nasty Patrick O'Neal's apartment. Stanley locks O'Neal in his bedroom with the Big Spider and...well, you know. I also recall one about Leslie Nielsen spending a night alone in the haunted Psycho house. And a very scary one about a doll sent to kill John Williams(Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief.) The original 1969 pilot film famously sported an episode directed by young Steven Spielberg and starring Joan Crawford. Crawford evidently tried to have SS fired because he looked like a little boy to her. But the studio backed SS and Crawford came to respect him. This episode was about a selfish rich blind woman(Crawford) who pressured a poor man(Tom Bosley) to sell her his eyes if only to see for ONE DAY. Cruel. The twist: Joan gets the eyes just in time for a nighttime blackout...and her death. That pilot had a much scarier episode with Roddy McDowall as a killer who must watch paintings of his family graveyard change to show the uncle he killed , rising from the grave and approaching the house to kill Roddy. This was talked about almost in the manner of the schoolyard playground of my youth by me and my now teenage buddies. --- As I recall, Night Gallery was cut down to a half hour and given some atrocious "blackout bits" with actors wearing Universal monster masks(Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc) for poorly written jokes. Rod Serling was humiliated. The show went off the air quickly after that. Yes, EC: color made for the huge difference between Night Gallery and not just The Twilight Zone but Thriller and other horror, supernatural and sci-fi anthologies of an earlier time. Those kinds of shows just don't "work" in color. I know there are a few out there, plus reboots of earlier classics in color, but the newer color shows are much more graphic and leave very little to the imagination. Also,--a cranky thing about me maybe--the writing today is too modern and in a sense too sophisticated for those genres, which needed to be straightforward and sometimes rely on exposition (back story, in other words) to work. There's such a thing as being too hip (sorry). Those old black and white shows weren't hip at all, and yet they worked their retro charms all the same, and this made their "anti-hipness" sort of the New Hip for fans of those shows...it's a big world out there.
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