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Night Gallery

★ 7.9 7K votes 1969–1973 3 seasons · 47 episodes Ended NBC
AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 10/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 9/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Larry WatsonJoanna PettetMatt PeltoGeraldine PageJohn AstinMichael Laird
Written by
Rod Serling
Starring
Larry WatsonJoanna PettetMatt PeltoGeraldine PageJohn AstinMichael Laird
Written by
Rod Serling
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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Night Gallery Episode Ratings Heatmap

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S36.46.87.06.06.96.56.76.57.36.55.76.77.06.06.05.16.45.4

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About

"Twilight Zone's darker, moodier horror cousin"

Rod Serling follows up The Twilight Zone with another anthology, this time leaning into horror over sci-fi philosophy. Each episode opens with Serling strolling through a macabre art gallery, using a painting to introduce that night's tale of curses, hauntings, and cosmic comeuppance. Quality swings wildly episode to episode since the show ran three tightly-produced seasons under network interference, but the best installments are genuinely unsettling and atmospheric. It's slower and moodier than its predecessor, trading twist-ending cleverness for dread and gothic imagery, carried almost entirely by Serling's presence and a handful of standout segments.

Watch it for

the handful of genuinely eerie segments and Serling's atmospheric hosting between paintings.

Maybe skip if

you want consistent quality across episodes rather than a hit-or-miss horror anthology.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 11970
7.26K76h 44m
Season 21971
7.210K2311h 42m
Season 31972
6.45K177h 22m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rod Serling Self - Host
Larry Watson First Deputy (segment: Green Fingers), Kid Max (segment: The Waiting Room), Longhair
Joanna Pettet Claire Foster (segment: Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something), Elaine Latimer (segment: The House), Rhona Warwick (segment: The Caterpillar)
Matt Pelto 2nd Doctor (segment: The Little Black Bag), 2nd Workman (segment: They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar), Bartleby the Undertaker
Geraldine Page Frances Turchin (segment: Stop Killing Me), Molly Wheatland, Mrs. Evans (segment: The Sins of the Fathers)
John Astin Jonathan (segment: Pamela's Voice), Munsch, Randy Miller (segment: Hell's Bells)
Michael Laird 1st Goblin, Joel Robb (segment: The Dark Boy), Michael
Alan Napier Cousin Zachariah Ogilvy, Doctor (segment: House - With Ghost), The Man (segment: The Sins of the Fathers)
John J. Fox Heckler (segment: Make Me Laugh), Mr. Tourist (segment: Hell's Bells), Santa Claus (segment: The Messiah on Mott Street)
John Barclay Another Man (segment: The Sins of the Fathers), Butler (segment: The Doll), William Sharsted Sr. (segment: Camera Obscura)

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