The TV Time Machine RU-vid Channel, hosted by TV Historian Jim Benson, offers rare, behind-the-scenes videos featuring interviews with your favorite TV stars and shows; Vintage TV shows and TV Commercials, and videos featuring remarkable, untold stories from television's past 60 years.
Jim Benson hosts the nationally syndicated radio program TV Time Machine and is co-author with his writing partner Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour; Rod Serling's Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness, and the upcoming book, The Ultimate Columbo.
was pickmans model or the haunted farm house spared???????????I love those two episodes.If you love the night gallery you should watch journey to the unknown another great series .Or ghost story that turned into cicle of fear another great series,Im constantly watching the show called poor butterfly from journey to the unknown starring chad everet would of made a great movie ,very haunting story. then find a copy of don;t be afraid of the dark starring kim darby that was made for tv just like salems lot ...just those 2 alone you'll be sleeping under the covers or thearapy....
I remember getting the FRIGHT NIGHT poster at Universal Studios Tour ( 1974-76 ish?). As an adult I would absolutely love to have the original shown in this video. If I ever hit the Powerball ….. 😆
I don't think I've seen a child who so exactly looks like both parents at the same time. Normally, I see a nose here, eyes of the other, family chin. This, both faces vibrate in and out of my sight.
This was very interesting. I have always wondered if the paintings were produced to fit the storylines, or if on occasion they had an existing painting that inspired a story. I've always remembered the story of the harried Nazi who wanted to be in the peaceful picture of a man fishing, and instead ended up in the picture of being horribly tortured.
Such an excellent series... I never missed an episode and still catch it. Used to fly in LA weekly and had many actors over the years. Met Robert in Hollywood, one of the kindest. He made you feel like I was the most important person in the world. RIP to all who have since passed.
It breaks my heart to hear the story of how neglected the paintings were after the show was canceled. They should have been collected and stored together for a museum.
I heard that Bob Crane got an offer to do The Newlywed Game at the same time and had to choose one. And Clary's best friend on the show was Werner Klemperer. In real life Klemperer was married to the actors in the show who played Axis Annie and the baroness who played the daughter of the the general where Lebeau and Carter break into his study to steal plans.
@@thetvtimemachine And, it may have been the better move overall since he could have done it for decades and gotten royalties on it also. Who knows? He may still be alive.
The origin of the idea of a murder detective wearing a smoked silver beige acrylic coated raincoat might not be what Peter Falk told us in Algeria before columbo aired in the US there was an Actor " haj abderrahman" who wore the same coat on stage playing funny scenes of murder detective under the name of ( inspector Tahar ) making it his signature detective outfit doing those shows a decade before columbo first aired and in 1967 a full year before prescription murder aired in the US that same actor featured a full TV murder detective movie wearing his signature outfit and you can check it out ( L'inspecteur Mene ll'enquete 1967 ) , t's not easy finding the movie online but i saw it and any Algerian can confirm , back in Algeria we used to wear these spanish raincoats in winter a lot and even if Colombo's might have been made in the US it is strikingly similar and the 2 actors wearing it as signature murder detective might not be a coincidence
I remember watching the show in 1978 and it was obvious that Buck had been hurt. Chevy announced that he'd been cut during Weekend Update and everyone was wearing band aids by the end of the show! We were all in on it.
I watched Night Gallery when I was a child and absolutely loved it. I slept with cotton in my ears for weeks after one episode. Lol. I have often wondered what became of all the paintings. Thank you for sharing this.
I had just turned 10 years old in 1972 : this scared me SO much ! I remember that we were on vacation in Canada & I couldn’t sleep - I was so freaked out about this.
Robert Clary was a fine gentleman and would not have said a bad word about anyone, especially anyone who has passed away. It's an old world quality of integrity and good manners and I admire it very much. And the episode he is speaking about, in which he was supposed to leave the camp and join the Free French forces with the help of a woman was a different one from the still images you showed.
Agreed. He was certainly a gentleman when I interviewed him, and also spoke at length about his horrendous experience growing up in a concentration camp during World War II, which I'll be sharing on my channel in the near future.
...and then there's that fine Chekhov's moment in "Wrath of Khan," where he moans "Kyepteen, dey poot deez tiny KRITCHOORSZ een our EARS!" Episilode director Szwarc still has to overcome the reputational hit for BUG, however, despite being based on a fine novel & produced by schlockmeister supreme Wm. Castle.
At the time, some of the Night Gallery crew thought that Jeannot Szwarc was a better director than Steven Spielberg. Szwarc did not have very good luck when it came to feature film opportunities: "Bug," "Jaws 2," "Supergirl". His finest work as a film director was the 1980 time travel fantasy, "Somewhere in Time."
@@thetvtimemachine ...and I'd agree! Although we must admit his TV work easily surpasses his work in pictures. (Tho' surreal horror cinema must put the housewife in the giant wig bursting into flames in BUG up into the decalogue of "weird shit" cinema
Thank you, again! Are you planning on uploading Hotel Fenster (episode 32), The Bet (episode 23), and Harry, the Contractor (episode 26)? Haven't seen those three yet!
Night Gallery artist Tom Wright was careful to include visual elements of the stories in his paintings, but not too much to create spoilers. However, a painting like "The Late Mr. Peddington," depicting a dead man splattered on a concrete sidewalk, was one of his more literal, and direct, tie-in to the upcoming story.
That Dick didn't feel good about being a bad guy makes being a Columbo Villain even better. The show had a lot of sympathetic villains mainly because the victims were mostly really unlikable and putting the screws to the soon-to-be killer
Excellent documentary! I was six when the show premiered and actually recall that third season Sunday night time slot. We always watched the NBC mystery movie as a family with that awesome Mancini score! NG came on and I was promptly sent to bed, but I do recall seeing some of those episodes when I was little. Particularly: I’ll Never Leave You…Ever (great title still makes me chuckle), The Waiting Room, The Other Way Out and Midnight Never Ends just to name a few. Indelible images on a young mind. It’s maddening, but not surprising, to hear how NBC messed with Serling and ultimately destroyed his show. Especially confounding is the fact that the ratings were still viable and the show could have continued. To think of the possibilities…what could have been. But of course when you consider that final episode, with the laughable gorilla suit, maybe we dodged a bullet!
Night Gallery producer Jack Laird said that he had enough stories for the show to run 5-7 seasons. Additionally, Rod Serling wrote close to twenty scripts for Night Gallery that were never produced, that contained some of his best work. Your story is not unusual, as Night Gallery's biggest demographic was young people, under the age of 18. Parents would sometimes allow their kids to stay up past 10 PM when Night Gallery was on Wednesday nights, but not on Sunday nights, the day prior to the start of a new school week. That was another reason why the ratings plummeted in the show's third and final season.
