Rod Serling's Night Gallery: Season 2, Episode 8 The Diary/A Matter of Semantics/Big Surprise/Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
(10 Nov. 1971)
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Rod Serling's Night Gallery: Season 2, Episode 8 The Diary/A Matter of Semantics/Big Surprise/Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
(10 Nov. 1971)
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| Patty Duke | ... |
Holly Schaeffer (segment "The Diary")
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| Virginia Mayo | ... |
Carrie Crane (segment "The Diary")
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| David Wayne | ... |
Dr. Mill (segment "The Diary")
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| Cesar Romero | ... | ||
| E.J. Peaker | ... |
Nurse (segment "A Matter of Semantics")
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| John Carradine | ... |
Mr. Hawkins (segment "Big Surprise")
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| Carl Reiner | ... |
Professor Peabody (segment "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture")
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Robert Yuro | ... |
Jeb Harlan (segment "The Diary")
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James McCallion | ... |
George (segment "The Diary")
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| Lindsay Wagner | ... |
Nurse (segment "The Diary")
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Floy Dean | ... |
Receptionist (segment "The Diary")
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Diana Chesney | ... |
Maid (segment "The Diary")
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Monie Ellis | ... |
Candy-Striper (segment "A Matter of Semantics")
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| Vincent Van Patten | ... |
Chris (segment "Big Surprise")
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Marc Vahanian | ... |
Jason (segment "Big Surprise")
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Gossip columnist Holly receives a diary describing future events. / Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request. / Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. / Professor Peabody publicly ridicules the gods.
I adored the Night Gallery and was very pleased to have recently gotten the complete series.
Many of the segments are, frankly, mediocre, but some are classically terrifying. The episode with Roddy McDowell as the nephew who kills his rich uncle and Ossie Davis as the butler, the episode with Carl Betz as the doctor, "Camera Obscura" with Rene Auberjonois and Ross Martin (taken directly from the short story of the same name), and many, many others: all of these were good for a night of keeping the lights on. It's both good and rather sad to see all these great actors we grew up with who've since passed on. ~sigh~ I just finished watching "Big Surprise" again. And it's still as frightening and funny as ever.