Whatever Happened to Rod Serling's Night Gallery? 

A very good commentary on Rod Serling's Night Gallery. I was disappointed when the series was canceled. I have the Dvd's, @ Blu-Ray's , and the VHS @ Laserdisc Pilot in my Night Gallery collection. Im looking forward to adding the Night Gallery Books to my collection. Thanks Jim for a great commentary on Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

I was 6 years old in 1973. We had just moved to Denver from Chicago, and I vividly remember seeing the first reruns of Night Gallery on channel 2 just after the game show Truth or Consequences aired early at night. There’s a scary episode that sticks out in my mind about a woman who is in contact with an evil ghost upstairs in the attic of her home. I remember seeing this episode again when I rented the DVDs from Netflix, but I completely forget the title. In the summer of 1975, I remember hearing on the radio Rod Serling had died during heart surgery. It would be about another 5 years before I saw The Twilight Zone. Up until then, I only knew Rod Serling as that guy who hosted Night Gallery.

Wonderful segment, Jim…I really enjoyed this one! It was interesting pausing to read the newspaper clippings in detail. My favorite quote by Serling was his customarily droll response to the notion of a series name change-to which he responded “I don’t care if they call it ‘King For A Day’”. Classic Rod, ha! It’s interesting how Rod, when given his marching orders to NOT feature incisive and probing social commentary into the third season segments, still managed to do so-primarily through his longer and highly thoughtful, at times polemic monologues in the intros featuring the paintings (!). Very clever on the part of the impish creative genius that Mr. Serling was.

I used to watch this when I was a kid late at night and even the opening theme is spooky.🖼️

I was six-ish when Night Gallery aired. Everyone else in the family, older than I was, watched it. I hid under my bed, terrified. Still hate paintings.

Thanks for the great video. I remember watching the original series, then the half hour reruns that were cut to pieces. Thanks for covering this classic.

Green Fingers was very well remembered

I bought the book Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour in 1998, I've heard there is a second edition with extras.....I have several favorite Night Gallery episodes//segments, the pilot was brilliant, and The Dark Boy, Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay, The Phantom Farmhouse, A Death in the Family, Cool Air, Sins of the Father and several others......the only Night Gallery episodes I don't care for is Dead Weight and They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar

I really enjoyed your commentaries on the episodes as well. I had the DVDs, but the upgrade to the Kino Lorber Blurays was worth the purchase for all the new features and commentaries.

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!

Thank you for this video

Outside of a great feature on Night Gallery, you have a perfect narration voice. That's probably why people say you sound like AI, because AI COPIED you. Now I need to find these episodes - I adore The Twilight Zone, so would be interesting to watch Night Gallery.

I bought the book, worth its weight in gold. ❤ Wanted to find out where the transmitting station in "flip side of satan", was filmed, also where the pit was filmed in "brenda", but that info is not there or anywhere.

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i remember 1 episode as a kid called the sin eater. scared the $HIT out of me

I loved that show, the music is still terrifying 😂

To everyone who claims the narration is AI... I know this youtube creator personally, and can confirm he is 100% human! :D

To bad the tower of terror was not at universal studios using the paintings from the night gallery used in the ride.

Unfortunately it was on only 3 seasons - the SCARIEST show on TV in the 70s

It's a wonder that any good TV was made during this time period....come to think of it there WAS a lot of bad shows.

😂😂figures Guillermo Del Toro didn’t like Rod Serling’s storytelling! Del Toro has the biggest ego in Hollywood, a much bigger ego than he has any right to have, he acts like he’s better than everyone else and rarely gives credit where credit is due. 😂

It sucked. That’s what happened to it

Was always scared by the worm/caterpillars in the ear/brain, even to this day. I guess some don't get to upset about this, like the Maga crowd

Sorry, I can't stand the AI-GENERATED voice narration. Big thumbs down.