Night Gallery: Season Three
Join master of mystery Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) as he invites you into the transfixing world of fantasy, horror and science fiction of the Night Gallery. In its third and final season, Serling once again presents stories that still leave an undeniable chill, filled with restless spirits, murderous spouses and unidentified terrors that go bump in the night. Featuring a sensational roster of entertainment legends including Vincent Price, Mickey Rooney, Sally Field, Sandra Dee, Bill Bixby, a
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All of the Night Gallery episodes are complete–the way the original filmmakers intended,
I’m Jim Benson, co-author of the Night Gallery book with Scott Skelton. My production company TV Time Machine Productions and Scott, worked with Skip Martin of Universal Studios Digital Services and Universal Home Entertainment in the restoration of the “lost episode” for this DVD set (featuring the segments “Die Now, Pay Later,” “Room For One Less,” “Witches’ Feast,” and “Little Girl Lost”). Because of the complicated history of this series, sometimes there’s some confusion. In the early 1970′s, Night Gallery was heavily altered for syndication. Cut into half-hours, some segments were expanded with footage from other TV Shows and movies–totally unrelated to Night Gallery. Other segments were edited down drastically in order to meet time requirements for syndication. In the case of “Die Now, Pay Later,” “Room For One Less,” “Witches’ Feast,” and “Little Girl Lost,” we worked from the original shooting scripts and from original studio notes, restoring these episodes to their original states, as intended by the original filmmakers back in the early 1970′s.
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|Includes “Lost Episode” and Two All-Time Classics,
By the third season of Night Gallery, the network had cut its running time to thirty minutes rather than sixty–which left the show’s creative team much more limited in how they could pace the vignettes. Tensions between writer/face-man Rod Serling and workaholic writer/producer Jack Laird had gotten worse than ever, and the show’s use of the cheap-looking “day for night” technique–in which outdoor scenes were shot in daylight and then filtered to unconvincingly appear as “nighttime”–had reached an all-time high. Season three had several meandering episodes that barely held together a narrative thread (“Whisper” and “Death on a Barge,” for example), and of the seventeen stories that originally aired (fifteen episodes), two are useless vampire puns (courtesy of Jack Laird, if I recall) and another two focus on killer animals (a gorilla and a jungle cat) rather than ghosts or monsters.
There are, however, two standouts that remain some of the best episodes of television to ever bear Serling’s name. The first, “The Other Way Out,” is a compelling tale, through-and-through, about a man who gets his comeuppance after murdering a “go-go dancer” and seemingly getting away with it–until he is lured to an isolated farm by a potential blackmailer. The second truly great story, “Finnegan’s Flight,” sees Burgess Meredith in his second and final Night Gallery appearance as a prison inmate whose imagination is so vivid that he can push the limits of the human mind’s capabilities–and possibly bend the rules of reality.
Other good stories that would have been better as 20-minute pieces of an hour-long show, rather than 30-minute stories stretched a little too far, include “Fright Night,” about a man who inherits a house with a mysterious, locked chest in the attic, and “Spectre In Tap Shoes,” a murder mystery with a (possible, I don’t want to ruin it) supernatural twist.
As a whole, season three of Night Gallery cannot hold a candle to the superior season one, which was short but with a high batting average of quality, or season two, which had many, many classic episodes due to sheer volume. Most episodes do have that unquantifiable “Night Gallery feel” that viewers crave, however, and “The Other Way Out” and “Finnegan’s Flight” alone make this set worth owning.
Completist fans will also be happy to know that “Witches’ Feast,” in its entirety, is included in this set as part of a “lost episode” that was recently compiled. See the episode list below for the other three vignettes included in the “lost episode.”
Guest stars include Vincent Price, Leonard Nimoy, Mickey Rooney, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Burl Ives, Burgess Meredith, and Dean Stockwell.
Episodes:
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Girl With the Hungry Eyes
Rare Objects
Spectre In Tap Shoes
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please
The Other Way Out
Fright Night
Finnegan’s Flight
She’ll Be Company For You
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Something in the Woodwork
Death on a Barge
Whisper
The Doll of Death
Hatred Unto Death/How to Cure the Common Vampire
BONUS FEATURES
Bonus vignettes, compiled as a “lost episode” and included here:
Die Now, Pay Later
Room for One Less
Little Girl Lost
Witches’ Feast
Also, this set will include audio commentary on “The Return of the Sorcerer” as well as for the shorts included in the aforementioned “Lost Episode.”
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|It took long enough, Finally,
By the time Night Gallery hits its third season its down to a half hour now.19 more episodes with a rash of great guest stars like Sandra Dee, Leonard Nimoy, Joanna Pettit, John Astin, James Farentino,Stuart Whitman, Barbara Anderson, Dean Stockwell, Sally Field, Leslie Ann Warren, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Vincent Price, Diana Merill, Bill Bixby, Tisha Sterling,Gary Lockwood,and Joan Van Ark to name a few.Not too many duds in this batch.Most of the episodes are really spooky and well done for its last year. Lets hope there are some good extras in this dvd set.Look forward to adding this to my dvd library and have the whole Night Gallery Collection.God bless Rod Serling for his insomnia for thats when many of his Twilight Zone script ideas came from and the same for Night Gallery.
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|Great for newborns,
I bought these on the recommendation of a friend whose son is now 9 months for my then 2 mo old (now 3 1/2 months). I was a little put off by the price because for some reason, I thought they were playing card sized, when they arrived they are about the size of a paperback or DVD package, and very sturdy and thick. My son loves to look at these and will follow them with his eyes and by turning his head. I had borrowed some black and white books by Tana Hoban for infants from the library which have solid shapes in black and white and my son couldn’t care less about those images.
As far as the garden collection, I am sure that it doesn’t matter to the baby which set you choose, but you will get use out of these and they seem to be substantial enough to be passed on to another child.
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Great for a newborn!,
Got these cards before my son – now 3 months – was born. Well worth the price if you have an extra 12 bucks to spend! He won’t be interested in these simple b/w images for much longer, so their usefulness is very short lived. But these were the first images he was interested in and the first thing that he could track 180 degrees (moved his head all the way from right to left side, following the cards). I sing “old mcDonald” with him and the 6 cards. Not many cards, but just right for teh attention span of an infant. His eyes get big and he focuses on each card with intensity. I think it’s not only the simple B/w images that keep his attention, but the cards are just big enough to block his view of other competing objects that he likes to look at (such as Mommy, or the ceiling light).
I also used these cards for his first wall pictures in his room. I scanned a few cards, then blew them up and printed them and put them in some small white PB frames I had. He loves to look at them from his crib and changing table. Again – short lived. I’ll probably replace the prints with something more colorful in a few months time. But it’s cheap to print and it was worth the effort to have my 1 month old stare contentedly at art while I changed him.
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Perfect flash cards for infant.,
Our son loved these flash cards even at the age of one or two months. The card stock is sturdy and the cards still look new after frequent use. Black and white is perfect for very young infants.
Only possible con: the writing on the flash cards is cursive. Our son isn’t old enough to start reading but when he is, I’m not sure the writing will be legible to him.
Overall, a great buy.
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