My favorite episode was "The Messiah on Mott Street". I co-starred with Edward G. Robinson playing his grandson, Mickey.

--Ricky

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My FAVORITE episode of Night Gallery has to be the one that starred JOAN CRAWFORD. The movie icon did a one shot guest appearance for the show. Her career had all but faded but this was a stunning comeback. In it she plays a woman who has everything money can buy..She is very rich...but no amount of money can buy her vision. You see she was blind since birth. And she is extremely bitter....then along comes a method that could restore her sight if only for a little while. Of course she jumps at the chance...but it means taking someone elses eyes Leaving the individual who donated them blind. Joan Crawford plays a convincing cold cruel individual who thinks of nothing but herself. The studio set suits her to a tee. A surgeon doesnt want to perform the unethical operation but she bribes him into doing so. And a man heavily in debt is the perfect candidate. What happens? You will just have to watch the episode and find out.

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My favorite episode was Class of 99. Brandon de Wilde was killed the next year after he played Johnson, a student in this episode. Vincent Price was suavely evil as a "Professor". Randolph Mantooth played Elkins, a fellow student who paid the ultimate price for non conformist behavior. This was shown in 1971, and 1999 seemed really far in the future. Thank goodness we haven't become the robot society that was portrayed.

--Fayette Tucson

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I was 8 when I saw one of the episodes and it scared the hell out of me. It was The Cemetery that was my favorite one.

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I had just turned 15 and this episode of the 'Night Gallery' came on. It was late and the rest of the family was asleep. The story was great but turned sinister soon enough. The mother in the story is walking by her daughter's closed bedroom door. She hears her child crying and opens the door and asks what is wrong? The child says "it killed my baby dolly" mom looks to where the girl is pointing and sees on the floor at the base of the dresser, a cute little doll all torn to bits. Mom then looks up at the top of the dresser and there 'it' sits; this hideously evil looking doll with dark stains around its eyes and a hellish grin with dark teeth. It was at this point that I went to my sister's room and begged her to get up and come watch this with me; I was too scared to watch alone but too drawn by the story to walk away.

To this day, 'The Doll' still has the power to reach deep inside and hit that fear switch in me that all humans have. 33 years later Rod's story still gives me the willies. Thank You Rod. You were ahead of your time my friend.

--shlaz

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I remember two episodes - I was very young, I think it was called "green thumb" one about an unscrupulous property developer that drives and old woman out of her house destroys her garden and eventually kills her by removing one of her digits. She collapses and dies digging in her garden. She comes back (much to his horror), and says "everything I plant grows... even me"

Another was about someone who washes a spider down a drain, it keeps returning, larger and larger until eventually is the size of a dog.

--scared70skid

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My favorite episode (and one of the best scripts ever written for TV) was "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar". I first saw this poignant story when I was eleven years old.

In it, a lonely widower, brilliantly played by the great William Windom, sees his entire world start to crumble when a beloved hangout (the titular bar) is about to be demolished. The bar represents all the better days of his life - his friends, family, and late wife. It was classic Rod Serling. Even at my young age, I was struck by the regrets the character experiences in the story. For many years, this episode was shown in syndication in a badly edited version; most of the plotlines were ruined and/or missing altogether. A few years ago, Columbia House released the original episode uncut. Watching it again in its original version for the first time in over 20 years catapulted me back to a more innocent time in my life. To this day, it never fails to move me. I do believe it was Rod Serling's finest hour.

--Craig Pearman

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The ultimate in any television horror/suspense/sci fi, I am completely enamored of the series. My favorite episodes include "Camera Obscura" (we have all walked out of a building at the end of a busy day, only to find the streets vacated, and the shadows a little more menacing), "The Other Way Out" (to be trapped beyond all help, brrr!). And the icing on the proverbial "cake", lies in it's magnificant background score. I am middle aged, and I know my youngster revels in this dynamic classic of the suspense genre. Thank you for soliciting my comments.

--Jerry

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Absoluteley superb! "Night Gallery" touches us all in one way or another. I think that at some level we can all relate to the richly diverse episodes because of our own personal fears, hopes, successes, aspirations and failures. Although each episode in and of itself was different as far as the time frame in which the situation took place, of whether it dealt with a particular theme, ie; horror, suspense, sci-fi or perhaps something very real, they were all connected in a deeper sort of way. Hence it's ability to transcend each generation and differing barriers. My favorite episodes include "Camera Obscura" and "The Other Way Out". Each of these episodes deals with that latent fear that we all have of being menaced by forces or people we cannot fend off, and our own personal inabilities to overcome the seemingly insurmountable. We can apply this to our everyday lives. Finally, however most important, every fan owes an unswerving thanks to, like Hitchcock, the other master of the macabre, Rod Serling. Thank you for a job well done Rod!

--Jerry

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