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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  unknown
Year: 1970  |  1971  |  1972  |  1973  |  unknown


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Dead Man

Original Air Date—16 December 1970
A doctor uses a man who is highly susceptible to suggestion to simulate any disease through hypnosis. The only carrot keeping the subject there was the attraction between him and the doctor's much younger wife. Finally the doctor decides to have this young man cheat death. When the doctor can't bring him back by signal or medical means the young man is buried, the result of an unfortunate accident. The doctor's colleague goes through his notes and discovers that unconsciously the jealous doctor gave him the wrong signal to revive him. His wife hears this discussion and runs for the cemetery.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Two half hour segments, one dealing with the power of suggestion and the other dealing with a soul transfer.  Larry Hagman guest stars.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Housekeeper

Original Air Date—16 December 1970
A practitioner of the black arts plans to replace his heartless wife's soul with that of a good hearted housekeeper. Once the switch is accomplished the lady in question has other ideas.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 3 -- An invalid, a skid row bum, and an astronaut figure in this collection of gripping stories.

Season 1, Episode 3: Room with a View

Original Air Date—23 December 1970
With the unwitting knowledge of his nurse an invalid has plans to end his beautiful young wife's unfaithfulness.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Little Black Bag

Original Air Date—23 December 1970
When a former physician and his fellow alcoholic companion find a 21st century medical bag, miracles start to happen in the homeless shelter. While the doctor wants to bring his newfound knowledge to the world, his companion is only interested in selling the miraculous black bag.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Nature of the Enemy

Original Air Date—23 December 1970
NASA mission control watches helplessly while a space mission walks the moon trying to find out what happened to the previous one.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 6 -- In three eerie vignettes a murderous husband is tormented by his dead wife, played by Phyllis Diller.  The unforgiving sea offers up the story of a "Lone Survivor." Finally, "The Doll," a toy no little girl should play with.

Season 1, Episode 6: The House

Original Air Date—30 December 1970
A woman who has been dreaming of a certain house for years finally gets to see it in real life.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Two different types of haunted houses feature in two half hour segments combined to create a gripping hour of drama.

Season 1, Episode 7: Certain Shadows on the Wall

Original Air Date—30 December 1970
The shadow of recently deceased Emma Bingham appears on a wall in her house and nothing can be done to remove it.

Season 1, Episode 8: Make Me Laugh

Original Air Date—6 January 1971
A fading comic asks for help from a miracle worker requesting the ability to make people laugh.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Two half hour segments.  The first deals with an inept comic desperate for laughs and the second with a sportsman who puts his unwilling son to the test of the kill.  Most notably the first segment, "Make Me Laugh," is Steven Spielberg's directorial debut

Season 1, Episode 9: Clean Kills and Other Trophies

Original Air Date—6 January 1971
Colonel Archie Dittman is a big-game hunter obsessed with hunting and constantly frustrated that his mild-mannered son has yet to catch his father's enthusiasm for the sport. So Archie makes an ultimatum: either his son goes on a hunt and makes a "clean kill" or gets cut off without a cent.

Season 1, Episode 10: Pamela's Voice

Original Air Date—13 January 1971
At his wife's funeral a husband discusses their marriage and his hatred for her and her constant nagging that stopped when he murdered her, but then not all is at it seems.

Season 1, Episode 11: Lone Survivor

Original Air Date—13 January 1971
A cowardly seamen from the Titanic is the only occupant of a lifeboat picked up by the Lusitania three years later. He is the only one who knows that their ship is going to be torpedoed.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Doll

Original Air Date—13 January 1971
A British Army officer must deal with the murderous doll of his young niece.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Last Laurel

Original Air Date—20 January 1971
An ex-decathlete is now a bed-ridden invalid, and a paranoid, plotting to murder his rival.

"Night Gallery" (1970): Season 1: Episode 14 -- The gradual merging of past and present and the power of levitation figure in forty and ten minute segments.

Season 1, Episode 14: They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar

Original Air Date—20 January 1971
After twenty-five years of competition and fighting in the plastics business, a lonely widower is having flashbacks to better times when his wife was alive and they used to visit and celebrate at Tim Riley's Bar.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Boy who Predicted Earthquakes

Original Air Date—15 September 1971
A young boy who can accurately foresee future events becomes a TV star.

Season 2, Episode 2: Miss Lovecraft Sent Me

Original Air Date—15 September 1971
Sent from an agency for an overnight stay, a babysitter begins to think something is wrong when the father's reflection doesn't appear in a mirror and his unseen son sounds a lot like a wild dog.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Hand of Borgus Weems

Original Air Date—15 September 1971
A man's hand is possessed and starts to exact revenge for the death of it's owner.

Season 2, Episode 4: Phantom of What Opera?

Original Air Date—15 September 1971

Season 2, Episode 5: Death in the Family

Original Air Date—22 September 1971
Petty thief Doran is on the run from the law and hides out at the funeral home run by Mr. Jared Soames, an undertaker who has an unusual method of dealing with the loneliness in his life.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Merciful

Original Air Date—22 September 1971
In this brief twist on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", a marital partner is cemented inside a small cubicle as part of a mercy killing.

Season 2, Episode 7: Class of '99

Original Air Date—22 September 1971
The final is given at an unknown university that reveals more than just the knowledge of its students.

Season 2, Episode 8: Witches Feast

Original Air Date—22 September 1971

Season 2, Episode 9: Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay

Original Air Date—29 September 1971
College professor Craig Lowell and his wife have recently opened their home to her aunt Ada Burn Quigley, but he suspects that she is not the sweet little old lady she appears to be.

Season 2, Episode 10: With Apologies to Mr. Hyde

Original Air Date—29 September 1971
Doctor Jeckyl takes his potion with some unusual results.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Flip Side of Satan

Original Air Date—29 September 1971
A callous disc jockey finds himself spinning platters at a hellish radio station.

Season 2, Episode 12: A Fear of Spiders

Original Air Date—6 October 1971
Arachnophobic gourmet critic Justus Walters has no use for the clingy librarian who lives upstairs, until he discovers a tenacious spider in his kitchen sink and needs help to get rid of it.

Season 2, Episode 13: Junior

Original Air Date—6 October 1971
A "black-out" vignette dealing with parents who have to decide which one gets out of bed in the middle of the night to feed their son.

Season 2, Episode 14: Marmalade Wine

Original Air Date—6 October 1971
Roger Blacker gets caught in a cloudburst, is welcomed into the home of retired surgeon Dr. Francis Deeking, drinks excessively, and lies about his photographic achievements.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Academy

Original Air Date—6 October 1971
A wealthy businessman is having trouble with his son, a delinquent who's constantly in trouble. He hears of a private school that specializes in "problem" children, and pays it a visit to determine if it's the kind of place that will straighten out his son.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Phantom Farmhouse

Original Air Date—20 October 1971
Psychiatrist Joel Winter is questioned by the local sheriff when one of his patients is savagely murdered in the forest near the sanitarium where Winter is on staff.

Season 2, Episode 17: Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Original Air Date—20 October 1971
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hasleman are concerned when their young son Paul escapes from reality into a fantasy world full of snowy landscapes.

Season 2, Episode 18: A Question of Fear

Original Air Date—27 October 1971
A mercenary is bet $15,000 that he cannot stay one night in a haunted house, a house that turned his companion's hair white in one night.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Devil Is Not Mocked

Original Air Date—27 October 1971
The Nazi's plan to bring everyone under their domination throughout the Balkans during the early days of World War II including the master of a dark castle and his entire household.

Season 2, Episode 20: Midnight Never Ends

Original Air Date—3 November 1971
A hitch-hiking Marine feels he has met the woman who picks him up before.

Season 2, Episode 21: Brenda

Original Air Date—3 November 1971
A girl vacationing on an island comes across a creature that she befriends.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Diary

Original Air Date—10 November 1971
A gossip columnist gets a gift of a diary in which the next day's events are described before they happen.

Season 2, Episode 23: A Matter of Semantics

Original Air Date—10 November 1971
Dracula visits a blood bank with an unusual request.

Season 2, Episode 24: Big Surprise

Original Air Date—10 November 1971
Mr. Hawkins is an elderly hermit feared by the children in the neighborhood. When three boys reluctantly pass his farmhouse on the way home from school, he offers them a big surprise if they visit nearby Miller's Field and do some digging.

Season 2, Episode 25: Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

Original Air Date—10 November 1971
During one of his classroom lectures, college professor Peabody makes the mistake of dismissing pagan religious cults as childish superstitions.

Season 2, Episode 26: House - with Ghost

Original Air Date—17 November 1971
In England an American with a nagging wife rents a house that comes with a stairwell ghost.

Season 2, Episode 27: A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank

Original Air Date—17 November 1971
A hungry vampire goes in search of a nocturnal nosh in a young woman's bedchamber.

Season 2, Episode 28: Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator

Original Air Date—17 November 1971
In the American desert circa 1880, "Doctor" Ernest Stringfellow survives by selling snake oil in the form of a medicinal tonic with dubious healing powers.

Season 2, Episode 29: Hell's Bells

Original Air Date—17 November 1971
A hippie dies in an automobile accident and finds himself in hell. He wonders just how bad eternity in hell can be.

Season 2, Episode 30: The Dark Boy

Original Air Date—24 November 1971
In 19th-century Montana, recently-widowed schoolteacher Judith Timm is visited by the specter of Joel Robb, a fourth grader who died two years earlier.

Season 2, Episode 31: Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something

Original Air Date—24 November 1971
Wealthy young housewife Claire Foster is a dead ringer for the attractive hitchhiker who pistol-whipped musician Erik Sutton and stole his car. But she steadfastly proclaims her innocence to him and to the police.

Season 2, Episode 32: Pickman's Model

Original Air Date—1 December 1971
In 1890's Boston, art student Mavis Goldsmith has a desperate crush on her teacher Richard Upton Pickman and tries to learn why he is obsessed with painting rat-like ghouls. One night, she follows him home to learn more.

Season 2, Episode 33: The Dear Departed

Original Air Date—1 December 1971
Con artist Mark Bennett and his bumbling accomplice Joe Casey run a successful spiritualist scam, until Mark falls for Joe's wife Angela.

Season 2, Episode 34: An Act of Chivalry

Original Air Date—1 December 1971
When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.

Season 2, Episode 35: Cool Air

Original Air Date—8 December 1971
A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment.

Season 2, Episode 36: Camera Obscura

Original Air Date—8 December 1971
A miserly banker finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device.

Season 2, Episode 37: Quoth the Raven

Original Air Date—8 December 1971
Edgar Allen Poe can't even get the first line down on paper.

Season 2, Episode 38: The Messiah on Mott Street

Original Air Date—15 December 1971
When his grandfather is ailing, a nine-year-old Jewish buy runs out looking for the Messiah. His grandfather said that he will appear big and black against the sky striking down their enemies. When he gets into trouble and is saved by a black man, he brings him home to his grandfather announcing that he had found him.

Season 2, Episode 39: The Painted Mirror

Original Air Date—15 December 1971
Removing the paint from the glass of an antique mirror, an aged shop owner sees an alien landscape that is used in a plot to rid himself of his unwanted partner.

Season 2, Episode 40: The Different Ones

Original Air Date—29 December 1971
In the 21st century, suburban widower Paul Koch is desperate to find a solution to his 17-year-old son Victor's facial deformity, but none seem to exist - on this planet.

Season 2, Episode 41: Tell David...

Original Air Date—29 December 1971
Lost and asking for directions a woman gets a warning and possible glimpse into her own future.

Season 2, Episode 42: Logoda's Heads

Original Air Date—29 December 1971
A man scours the African jungle for his missing brother and finds Logoda, a witch doctor whose "trophy room" contains the shrunken heads of defeated enemies.

Season 2, Episode 43: Green Fingers

Original Air Date—5 January 1972
In the days before the Supreme Court's Kelo v. City of New London decision extending eminent domain rights to private business development, the owner of a construction company must resort to nefarious means to acquire the home of a little old lady in order to build a factory.

Season 2, Episode 44: The Funeral

Original Air Date—5 January 1972
Greedy funeral director Morton Silkline balks at having to arrange a belated funeral for distinguished client Ludwig Asper, but Mr. Asper proves to be very convincing...

Season 2, Episode 45: The Tune in Dan's Cafe

Original Air Date—5 January 1972

Season 2, Episode 46: Lindemann's Catch

Original Air Date—12 January 1972
A fisherman who catches a mermaid longs to keep her, but wishes for her to be a real woman.

Season 2, Episode 47: A Feast of Blood

Original Air Date—12 January 1972
Vain young beauty Sheila Gray is repulsed by Henry Mallory, the unattractive man who wants to marry her. But he's given her a gift - an unusual fur brooch that will not fall off Sheila's coat, no matter how much it is shaken.

Season 2, Episode 48: The Late Mr. Peddington

Original Air Date—12 January 1972
A woman who is provided very little means from her husband's estate is shopping for the cheapest funeral she can find.

Season 2, Episode 49: The Miracle at Camafeo

Original Air Date—19 January 1972
Instead of spending his insurance settlement on a medical solution to his paralyzed legs, he visits a Mexican Shrine and looks for a miracle.

Season 2, Episode 50: The Ghost of Sorworth Place

Original Air Date—19 January 1972
Wandering through Scotland, American drifter Ralph Burke is instantly smitten with Ann Loring, a beautiful widow whose home Sorworth Place is haunted by a ghost.

Season 2, Episode 51: The Waiting Room

Original Air Date—26 January 1972
The sins of unsavory gunfighter Samuel Dichter follow him into the afterlife.

Season 2, Episode 52: Last Rites for a Dead Druid

Original Air Date—26 January 1972
Attorney Bruce Tarraday suffers nightmares after his wife Jennie visits an antique store and makes an impulse purchase of a life-size druid sorcerer statue that she claims resembles him.

Season 2, Episode 53: Deliveries in the Rear

Original Air Date—9 February 1972
In 19th century New England, callous surgery instructor Dr. John Fletcher is unconcerned about where the local grave robbers obtain the dissection cadavers that they sell to him for his classroom lectures.

Season 2, Episode 54: Stop Killing Me

Original Air Date—9 February 1972
Middle-aged housewife Frances Turchin confides in police sergeant Stanley Bevelow that her husband is trying to murder her.

Season 2, Episode 55: Dead Weight

Original Air Date—9 February 1972
A bank robber desperate to leave the country doubts the credentials of Mr. Bullivant, an aging exporter with a reputation for complete customer satisfaction.

Season 2, Episode 56: I'll Never Leave You - Ever

Original Air Date—16 February 1972
An adulteress tries to destroy her terminally ill husband Owen with the help of a local crone skilled in the black arts.

Season 2, Episode 57: There Aren't Anymore MacBanes

Original Air Date—16 February 1972
Arthur Porter is fed up with wasting his money supporting his eccentric nephew Andrew MacBane and threatens to cut him off, so Andrew turns to the occult to solve the problem.

Season 2, Episode 58: You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore

Original Air Date—23 February 1972
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fulton delight in the sadistic torture of their servants, but they may have met their match when a new robot maid, known as Model # 931, shows up at their home.

Season 2, Episode 59: The Sins of the Fathers

Original Air Date—23 February 1972
Famine runs rampant in 19th century Wales, requiring terrified young Ian Evans to feast on the sins of deceased Mr. Craighill in order to feed himself and his parents.

Season 2, Episode 60: The Caterpillar

Original Air Date—1 March 1972
An unscrupulous man who wants the beautiful wife of another colleague pays to have an earwig placed in the husband's ear. This insect will will tunnel through the victim's brain causing excruciating pain and certain death. His accomplice enters the wrong bedroom and places the insect in his employer's ear. After weeks of pain he miraculously survives, but his doctor tells him that his ordeal is not yet over.

Season 2, Episode 61: Little Girl Lost

Original Air Date—1 March 1972
The government plays up to a genius' illusion that his dead daughter still lives so that he can finish his energy experiments even though his mind is still clouded.

Season 2, Episode 62: Satisfaction Guaranteed

Original Air Date—22 March 1971
An employment service has a difficult time fulfilling a customer's request for staff.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Return of the Sorcerer

Original Air Date—24 September 1972
Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Latin source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

Original Air Date—1 October 1972
Photographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new model.

Season 3, Episode 3: Fright Night

Original Air Date—15 October 1972
A married couple move into an inherited house that the dead man may not yet have left.

Season 3, Episode 4: Rare Objects

Original Air Date—22 October 1972
A mobster marked for extermination visits a man who proposes him safe sanctuary.

Season 3, Episode 5: Spectre in Tap-Shoes

Original Air Date—29 October 1972
After her sister hangs herself mysteriously, Millicent returns home, only to hear her dead sister -- a dancer -- tapping across the floor upstairs in the room she died in.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

Original Air Date—5 November 1972
Newly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is faced with a tough fighter in his first post-championship bout.

Season 3, Episode 7: You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile Please

Original Air Date—12 November 1972
Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet.

Season 3, Episode 8: Episode #3.8

Original Air Date—????

Season 3, Episode 9: Finnegan's Flight

Original Air Date—3 December 1972
Charlie Finnegan is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary and longs to escape. Fellow prisoner Pete Tuttle tries to help him, with the aid of his talent for hypnosis.

Season 3, Episode 10: She'll Be Company for You

Original Air Date—24 December 1972
Newly widowed Henry Auden is happy living alone, but the best friend of his deceased wife decides to provide him with some company in the form of her orange tabby cat Jennet.

Season 3, Episode 11: Something in the Woodwork

Original Air Date—14 January 1973
A spurned wife uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband.

Season 3, Episode 12: Death on a Barge

Original Air Date—4 March 1973
A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a coffin.

Season 3, Episode 13: Whisper

Original Air Date—13 May 1973
To keep his wife, a young man (Dean Stockwell) gives up his job to cross the country, as she (Sally Field) seeks out spirits of the dead to possess her for temporary thrills.

Season 3, Episode 14: The Doll of Death

Original Air Date—20 May 1973
In the British West Indies, plantation owner Alex Brandon is humiliated on his wedding day when his bride Sheila Trent is enticed into the arms of her former suitor Raphael. So he plots revenge with the help of an Obeah High Priest's knowledge of voodoo.

Season 3, Episode 15: Hatred Unto Death

Original Air Date—27 May 1973
On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson.

Season 3, Episode 16: How to Cure the Common Vampire

Original Air Date—27 May 1973
In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.

Season 3, Episode 17: Die Now, Pay Later

Original Air Date—1973
Local sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to the local funeral director's January clearance sale.

Season 3, Episode 18: Room for One Less

Original Air Date—1973
In an office building, an elevator operator copes with crowding on his car.

Unknown Season


I Did Not Mean to Slay Thee

Original Air Date—1972

Smile, Please

Original Air Date—12 November 1972
The lord of a crumbling manor arranges for an excited young Englishwoman to photograph a vampire in his basement.

The Other Way Out

Original Air Date—19 November 1972
Executive Bradley Meredith is responsible for the unsolved murder of a go-go dancer, so the victim's vindictive grandfather Old Man Doubleday invites him to the family's dilapidated old farmhouse, which comes complete with a pack of wild dogs.

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