Night Gallery
| Night Gallery | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | 'Rod Serling's Night Gallery' |
| Genre |
Horror Fantasy Drama Comedy |
| Created by | Rod Serling |
| Presented by | Rod Serling |
| Theme music composer |
Billy Goldenberg (pilot) Gil Mellé (seasons 1 & 2) Eddie Sauter (season 3) |
| Composer(s) | Robert Bain Paul Glass John Lewis Gil Mellé Oliver Nelson Robert Prince Eddie Sauter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 43 (+ pilot) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Jack Laird William Sackheim |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 50 minutes (seasons 1 & 2) 25 minutes (season 3) |
| Production company(s) | NBC |
| Release | |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release |
November 8, 1969 (pilot) December 16, 1970 – May 27, 1973 |
November 8, 1969 (pilot)
Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling viewed Night Gallery as a logical extension of The Twilight Zone, but while both series shared an interest in thought-provoking dark fantasy, more of Zone‘s offerings were science fiction while Night Gallery focused on horrors of the supernatural.
Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Thomas J. Wright) that depicted the stories. His intro usually was, “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, suspended in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.” Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself.
The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford.
Unlike the series, in which the paintings merely accompanied an introduction to the upcoming story, the paintings themselves actually appeared in the three segments, serving major or minor plot functions. Night Gallery was initially part of a rotating anthology or wheel series called Four in One. This 1970–1971 television series rotated four separate shows, including McCloud, SFX (San Francisco International Airport) and The Psychiatrist. Two of these, Night Gallery and McCloud were renewed for the 1971–1972 season with McCloud becoming the most popular and longest running of the four.
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