Night Gallery Opening and Closing Theme 1969 - 1973 With Snippets
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Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series,
The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories.
Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself.
The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford. Allegedly, Bette Davis was set to star in the segment, but she felt her work was not important to a young director. However there is nothing in the files at Universal to suggest anyone other than Crawford was slated for the role.
I got my vocabulary from Rod. No joke. A true wordsmith
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Rod Serling was and always will be TOP SHELF!! He is a LEGEND!!
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I totally agree!
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Rod serling Genius
Man, I was looking for the opening they used in the pilot because I think that one is way better. I've been watching this for the first time recently and was immediately struck by the amazing theme song, only to be disappointed that it was only in the pilot.
Late reply but I totally agree I showed my friend the second episode and said look how cool the intro is only to be another one.
I'm still scare at 55...
Such cheezy, dated tv. I remember waiting up until all hours to watch this in reruns. Farm report and station signoff followed.
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You ALMOST have to feel sorry for John Astin's character in "Pamela's Voice"... If you've seen the episode you'll know what I mean...
I thought this was going to be full episodes of "Night Gallery". I am disappointed.
It's too bad Sterling didn't really write any of the episodes. Also that second season wasn't very good :(
He wrote some of the episodes.
Now this was the kind of show that gave me nightmares & yet it was entertaining. A pity shows like Night Gallery have no place in today's wretched "Reality TV" littered wasteland.
Check out BLACK MIRROR on Netflix -- a TZ-like anthology with leaning toward technology-based stories!
Netflix is destroying free youtube and causing cell service to rise in price.
Someone called it a horror version of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE!
Entropy.
Everything turns to shit.
Night Gallery is too classy for today's audience
Whenever they try to reboot these they always forget that there was only ONE Rod Serling. He is an essential element to this or the Twilight Zone.
laceykat66- perhaps one should contact Rod (seance?) prior to repeating such an errant faux pah in future?
Agreed
im a big fan of the original black and white twilight zone but the new 2002 twilight zone episodes are awesome too
Rod Serling also wrote a western show for television that I only recently found out about. It is called Lonesome it only lasted for a season but it is on dvd and Very good also I think.
@Cornelius Esperanza correct
Gawd damnedest creepiest tv show for any kid of the 70's.
Hell... That theme song STILL gives me the shivers.
Rod Serling R.I.P. thanks for your art to this world
I'm 53 y o and the opening still gives me the same chills as a kid.
Just tuned in and at 56 it was the same with me lol. Goose bumps and flash backs! Then there was the other intro that ended with the painting of Satan. Ah what time, cheers!🤘
Same here
Agree! As a 6 year old, when I heard that haunting/disturbing theme from the next room, I knew mom and dad were watching Night Gallery.
@@flamethedarktruesalt9347 Perfect 👍😎
The sequence of the man coming out of the grave, walking to the house, knocking on the door and entering. I remember watching that with friends! It did not show it here, but it was a painting. The victim kept staring at it, and the camera went from his eyes to the painting. Each time showing the dead man coming closer! Needless to say, we did not sleep well that night!!
that was the tv pilot called the cemetery. the one i liked was surprise and make me laugh along with messiah on mot street
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Funny u said about watching with friends...it's the only time I'd watch this show too lol, hut I'd watch all the others by myself, tales from crypt, the hitchhiker, tales from the darkside
MY ALL TIME FAVORITE EPISODE!! WAS SCARED OUT OF MY MIND AS A KID THO! lmaoooo
Yes!! My dad was a huge Night Gallery fan and he rented the VHS one night which contained the episode you're talking about. One of the scariest episodes that I watched and it kept me awake at night. You simply don't have that kind of eerie, intense, and creepy atmosphere where it doesn't show the monster and what's left to your imagination when the door opens was simply more horrifying.
The episode the cemetery starring Roddy McDowall and Ossie Davis was without a doubt the best one
mycolortv1 Followed closely by "Pickman's Model" and "The Caterpillar " The three best episodes of a truly classic show, one of the first I loved since 1972 at age 3! jedrzejczykstanleynick@gmail.com
MYCOLORTV1 i liked green fingers, or the shadows on the wall episodes best
mycolortv1 Painted Mirror and Caterpillar were great episodes also
If Tony Perkins had never been born I think Roddy would have been good in Psycho...
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Thank God he was!
The best and truly the only horror tv show ever made. It was darker and more macabre than most horror movies today. We need a TV channel today, that airs this kind of horror gems daily.
Oh, Bernardo I'd love to start up my own retro channel.
It was truly unforgettable. As a child The more intelligent you were the more frightened you were poetry, art etc
Boris Karloff’s “Thriller” ( 1960-1962 ) came in a close second. Part Horror/Part Crime Drama. Some of the best horror episodes were “The Grim Reaper” ( starring a young William Shatner ), “The Devil’s Ticket”, “The Weird Tailor”, “Pigeons From Hell”, “The Terror In Teakwood”, “A Wig For Miss Devore”, “Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper”, “Waxworks”, and “The Incredible Doktor Markasen” ( starring the host, Boris Karloff ). Some very classic, creepy, eerie stories from a most unheralded and nearly forgotten television series ( and one of Stephen King’s favorites ) 😮💀👹
Supposedly the quality of the episodes on "Night Gallery" was inconsistent primarily because Rod Serling did not have creative control over the show's content as he had with "The Twilight Zone".
My GF and I were watching The Cemetery on Halloween night. After we gave out all the candy, we turned off the porch light and settled in to enjoy our scary movie night. We were at the part when Jeremy got out of the grave in the painting and walked to the door. Then some little kid pounded on my front door at that moment. I jumped so far I may have tied an Olympic record. I will never watch that episode or The Shining after dark again.
Remember when you were home alone on Friday night...
Forever etched and welded into my memory, totally haunting and sublime, unearthly sounds and visuals.
The METV channel has Night gallery episodes in the very early AM, set your DVR! I've been able to watch well over 15-20 just in the last couple weeks, I'm so happy now! My all-time favorite is The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes, still haven't seen that one in this lot yet.
@grozbeek mose watched she'll keep you company episode with Leonard Nimoy and Lorraine Gray, it's a strange one and creepy
Be advised, this is the notorious "syndication package" with episodes re-edited and padded plus Gary Collins' ESP series "The Sixth Sense, "reformatted with added Serling intros to masquerade as Gallery episodes, Best to buy the original broadcast DVDs
Hail Rod Serling!
Night Gallery used to scare the hell out of me. I was only 8 years old & used to stay up late to watch it with my grandmother back in the late 60s to early 70s. Our old house use to make creepy sounds at night too hahaaaa... I loved Night Gallery with Rod Serling & that suspenseful opening, introducing each short story with those eerie paintings & you never knew what was going to happen. hahaaaaaaaa.....
Rod Serling is the best! No one intros a story like Rod Serling, and no one ever will!
Serling was a genius.
Great story writer.
The music and the artwork has always given me chills of excitement!
Man I wish this was still running. Excellent TV Program!
You can still watch. On the NBC app on Roku.
Purchased the complete series several years ago. I try to watch a few episodes during the last week of October. It really sets the mood. Shame it's not possible to order prints of the paintings used in the series.
I was a child in Ireland in the 70s it was definitely the most scariest and entertaining /fascinating thought provoking, still frightened today, storytellers take a lesson
Ya that opening and music still haunts me from 45 years ago as a 10yo kid ha. Rod Serling was a genius.
The Caterpillar with Joanna Pettit and Lawrence Harvey is the most terrifying episode.
This was as scary as it could get on TV back then! 😱
I fell asleep on the couch with a Night Gallery dvd in the player and the episodes were over and the creepy music just kept looping, very unsettling.
I always loved the creepy into music and the creepy art
Credit goes to Gil Mellé & Tom Wright.
Good news! The new Blu-ray set has all of the episodes restored to their original length!
Rod Serling was a genius and produced such thought-provoking material in both The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.
This show is like a fever dream. Really stood out and was super unique.
one of the greatest writers of all time. none could ever top him with the stories he wrote. stories that brought chills down your spine. not because it was scary, but because it left you thinking so critically, it scared you knowing the characters he often wrote about, were ultimately like us. he made me look at writing completely different. The Twilight Zone is the greatest TV show of all time. Night Gallery was never really his show. He didn't really have that creative control he had with The Twilight Zone but Night Gallery is still a classic and better than a lot of shows today. You could never see this type of show on network television again
Lone Survivor and The Doll were together on a half hour show? what pair of powerhouse episodes! and Rod was ashamed of series? I don't believe it! musta had contract dispute! it's some of scariest stuff ever committed on film. hands down!
Ted Kier -wow thanks.
star cloud? you wrote er helped write the teleplays? wow! i'm in presence of great master!
I think Serling wasn’t necessarily ashamed of Night Gallery but he felt typecast and I don’t think he had as much control over this like he’d had on Twilight Zone. He wanted to do more challenging programs but audiences and networks just wanted more TZ-type shows from him
WHEN I WAS CHILD I ALWAYS AFRAID AS HELL TO WATCH IT,EVERY NIGHT BRINGS ME NIGHTMARES.
The great Geraldine Page starred in two episodes. Her best portraying an alcoholic divorcee with a ghost in her attic.
this show scared the hell out of me as a kid but i loved it
After Rod Serling lost creative control he started relating to it as Mannix In A Graveyard
Or 'Mannix with a shroud' as Stephen King put in Danse Macabre!
Alas, Serling had little control. Early on, the network wanted the scripts to pretty much be his, to establish the show. Once it was established, producer Jack Laird (who resented Serling, and wanted his presence only as a figurehead) took it more and more in his own direction, and Serling was essentially a contributor who was only eclectically consulted on things. To compound the problem, the network worried about ratings and insisted on changes in the third year, which accelerated the show's death spiral. It's really a pity. What they accomplished in the longer, serious stories, especially in the show's second season, is old television at its most extraordinary.
It's only fitting that Serling himself noted that his second favorite work (the first being Requiem for a Heavyweight in 1962) was the January 1971 NG episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" (beating out ALL Twilight Zone episodes!). That was THE episode that got him an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Single Episode" for 1971......and it was before Jack Laird got his hands on the show. I still can't watch that episode without crying. Very well written episode! By January 1972, the show was a mess. The only saving grace toward the end was the September 1972 episode with Joan Crawford (which was her last ever television/movie appearance).
Rod didn’t have strong confidence in his ability to write prose. Maybe hes right, maybe he’s wrong...it’s all relative, but his story version of Riley’s Bar was especially effective as well :)
Indeed. Some of the best 2nd season stories (in my opinion) include Class of ‘99, A Death In The Family, A Fear of Spiders, The Caterpillar, Pickman’s Model, You Can’t Get Help Like That Anymore, Sins of the Fathers, A Question of Fear etc. And the versions of Rod’s-both original stories and teleplays were infinitely better before Jack tampered with them.
While I have been watching Twilight Zone and Night Gallery off and on since I was a young kid back in the 1980s, when they used to rerun both shows on independent UHF channels in the Detroit and Lansing areas of Michigan, I didn't really have a favorite episode, just enjoyed the suspense and horror of these shows. My favorite episode within the last year or maybe even as far back as eight to nine years ago would have to be You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore. Talk about role reversals here between robotic aides meant to be just like humans, and the humans who severely abuse and mistreat them especially Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Fulton (a rich couple who enjoy throwing debauched parties in their living room and happen to be quite the drunks themselves). After one such party, they get theirs and get their humanity switched with the robots, and for the first time, robots become human. Broderick Crawford plays a role totally opposite of his Dan Matthews Highway Patrol role (but one more like his experience with alcohol in real life, which about two decades ago, was just like mine). Then Cloris Leachman plays his wife (unnamed in the episode), and she has that line where she says we don't employ you, we own you (referring to the robotic maid that they bought to replace the one that they totally destroyed, well they got this one for free due to their experience with the previous robot). One of the best episodes, and in a way totally relatable to me.
absolutely terrified me as a 4-5 year old. My room was right beside the living room and i could hear this at night when my parents were watching this program.
How did Serling sleep at night with all those NG episodes in his head? Even the theme music is eerie.
"Camera obscura" or something like that was a good one. Also the one of a subject who was hypnotized then died is a favorite. Jeff Corey is in it. Finally who can forget the story of the fellow hiring a killer to knock off a romantic rival only to become the victim when the insect was put into his own head by mistake? Very haunting indeed!
Jeff Corey was also an acting teacher and a director as well as actor!
Earwig??
They are: "The Dead Man" and "The Caterpillar"
Anyone else watching in their 30’s and just found out about this show??? My folks showed me The Twilight Zone growing up and I have no idea how I’m just finding out about this show now!!
I'm 29 and only just found out
I remember this show when I was a little kid in the 70s.....I didn't understand the story but the vibes of the show and the paintings made it scary for me..
Love Night Gallery since it premiered back in 1970!
One of my favorite shows forever!!!!💝😍rod serling is a sick genius!!!!!😘
You have good taste.
night Gallery was awesome.
As a little kid the opening theme would freak me out
Surprised this hasn't been rebooted ad nauseum like The Twilight Zone has.
I wonder was this episode called the Cemetery cause I seen this before but don't know what it's called.
Does anyone know where I can find the Night Gallery episode which featured that midnight radio DJ? It's one I liked a lot!
I believe that was Arte Johnson. It was called "The Flip Side of Satan". www.nbc.com/night-gallery/video/the-flipside-of-satan/3969140
You can get the whole series for less than $40
I really enjoyed watching this show growing up :)
Gil Melle, who wrote this music, remains criminally under-recognized as a composer.
People just ignore the music like it isn't there, even in a UA-cam video about the music.
The opening theme and pictures in 'the gallery' used to scare me and my brother half to death. We were in elementary school and lived out in the country in FL, back when that meant you were in the woods and there was no light pollution. Dark and scary!! 😱. LOL. Memories of back when....
The opening credits terrified me as well!
"Good Evening and welcome to this display of the unnatural, unbelievable, and simply terrifying. This little gem here might represent something that some of us may have experienced ourselves. It depicts an open, dusty, desert road, and an old, rusting eighteen wheeler from a bygone era, driven by what could only be called a sociopath--or is it being driven by anyone at all? A question we will attempt to answer to the best of our ability in an offering we simply call "Duel". And in case you were wondering--this is the Night Gallery".
I remember NOT watching this lol, when I we like 9 thru 15 years old I would always watch The Twilight Zone at 11pm until 12 and then the opening to Night Gallery would come on and switch lol. The Twilight Zone was more mind blowing storylines where Night Gallery was straight up horror driven. I had forgotten Rod Serling made Night Gallery
You missed out!
Rod also wrote some of the better Night Gallery episodes.
Great show.
Much creepier than twilight zone.
Both shows were great.
Serling was a genius.
Should have been on longer.
It still makes my hair stand on end and my skin crawl!
Actually, the opening theme you used was by Gil Melle. The end theme was composed for Season Three by Eddie Sauter.
If I had a time machine like Bill & Ted, I would grab Rod Serling, George Orwell, Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare to let them see what has become of the future; then let them brainstorm to figure out a way to avert this calamity while writing one hell of a great story.
In my early teens back then. Absolutely loved this show.
The days of great writers and implementation to film are no longer here.. rod serling's night gallery was the perfect example of the greatest of the horror IQ rights of a long-gone age of perfection in imagination and traits that haunt.. we will no longer most likely never see sech of such eclectic writing such as rod serling's night gallery series. So past these stories on to each upcoming generations that they may experience what true nightmares are from the minds of men who matter
Portifoy Portifoy , is that youuuuu.
Rod Serling was a genius
I was a child when this show aired and I miss it so much. I loved the anthologies they had on tv back then I cannot abide anything on rv now. And horror is not the same.
It’s a shame this great series is not streaming.
The last time I saw this was 1975 and I was 7. This scared the living hell out of me.
The creepiest episode I've seen of Night gallery was the episode 'Brenda'.
HOLY HANNAH that still creeps me right out!
R.I.P. Mr Serling. A giant of a man.
This is awesome. The best part of the show was always the introduction
'The Last Laurel' with Jack Cassidy was really bizarre
Hmmm, I like this theme song, but over the Season 3 gallery montage....
I peeked in at Mom watching this . It really
SCARED ME ! 😱😵
Just the intro was enough to scare the coco puffs out of me!
A 45-second intro? Seriously?
I was about 5, and I'd watch this with my aunt and get so scared!!!
The decision to replace the show's excellent electronic theme song with an annoying orchestral track for the third season was woeful.
I have a vague memory of this show from my early childhood. It haunts me to this day 50 years later.
It would be so cool if they came out with a reboot of Night Gallery, like Jordan Peete did with Twilight Zone.
That theme music is haunting!!It will literally shake you,so ahead of it's time. 💀👹👿
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how can I watch the unedited episodes of Night Gallery?
they are very hard to find. those been out of print for years. tracking that DVD collection is daunting.
@@TheDumontShow that’s a shame! Thank you for responding.
What's the episode name of the the one with the coffin, scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Also the that doll in 'Trilogy of Terror' with Karen Black.
Are you meaning "The Cemetery" with Roddy McDowall. After murdering his uncle, a man (Roddy McDowall) is haunted by a family painting that keeps changing. Thats the only one featuring a coffin, apartfrom the prison episode, where a guy is buried alive in a casket,expecting to be dug up, but never was.
@@TeeVeesGreatest Yeah that's it, and that african voodoo doll that comes to life with Karen Black. Thanks for your help!
@@firstpeoplegovernment All good bro!
5 packs a day took his tooth and life in 1975
I remember 1st time I saw the show I was a little kid and had no idea what it was about. Had something to do with a furry little brooch pinned to a girl's jacket lapel and as she was walking home late at night the brooch kept growing and she tried to get it off and it was biting her. It finally got so big it devoured her and I was traumatized but couldn't stop watching the show...
"A Feast Of Blood" starring Sondra Locke
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Thanks! I've been trying to find the name of the episode. I wouldn't have even remembered Sondra Locke was in it.
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I have this show on dvd and I am currently watching it. I just started watching season 2, and the show is a bit of a disappointment. So far, the opening has been the scariest thing. However, there were some big name actors/actresses who appeared on the show. Joan Crawford, Patty Duke, Sally Field, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Bill Bixby just to name a few.
I'm 59. Back in the day, I loved watching the Night Stalker with Darren McGavin. After that, it was bedtime. My big sister got to stay up later and would watch this. The opening theme music always scared the crap out of me.
Fond memories.
Huge fan…first became interested during this series, later discovering the legendary Twilight Zone. His original, Requiem For a Heavyweight, with Jack Palance, is must see, live TV! Rod’s signature artistry’s all over the final scene of the original Planet of the Apes. A monster talent that left us before his time.
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I remember when the Encore Mystery channel used to broadcast this show on TV when I was a kid in the 2000s
Damn! That last snippet gave me goosebumps! 😱And this is 2023!!
I loved The Night Gallery.
This opening theme, and the characters that were portrayed along with the music, used to Scare The Heck out of Me, when I was a 7 to 10-year-old little boy. My older brother would Blast this music from the TV on purpose, just to scare The Crap out of Me! I still don't like listening to this music late at night if I'm by myself at home.
2:55 The first screamer ever. (Referring to the screamer video pranks)
NOTE: Zombies can't pop up. There is no way they would break through a coffin with six feets of ground on them
Guy was a complete genius and growing up in the 80’s, I lived to watch the Twilight Zone late at night, (after the honeymooners and odd couple). He was a master at irony. But is it me? I was fixated on the chipped tooth of his when he was talking ? If I’m going to have a monologue in front of millions each week, I’d get it fixed !
The one dead person coming to the front door is the scariest
he looks older and sounds different from tz, the black and white added something and the sound tech of tz made it much better, guess im used to it.
I would run out of the room covering my ears and screaming every time this opening music would start ...scared the living crap out of me as a kid...I'm 58 now.