Night Gallery fans can usually list their favorite stories, the successful tales that really chilled or intrigued them. But what about the episodes they can’t stand? You know, the real stinkburgers they thought actually hurt the show’s reputation? Which would make your crap list? Here’s mine, the Bottom Twenty, in alpha order:
AN ACT OF CHIVALRY
DIE NOW, PAY LATER
THE DIFFERENT ONES
THE DOLL OF DEATH
FRIGHT NIGHT
HATRED UNTO DEATH
HOW TO CURE THE COMMON VAMPIRE
A MATTER OF SEMANTICS
A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BLOOD BANK
MISS LOVECRAFT SENT ME
THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY
PAMELA’S VOICE
PHANTOM OF WHAT OPERA?
PROFESSOR PEABODY’S LAST LECTURE
QUOTH THE RAVEN
THE RING WITH THE RED VELVET ROPES
ROOM FOR ONE LESS
SHE’LL BE COMPANY FOR YOU
WITCHES’ FEAST
WITH APOLOGIES TO MR. HYDE
Here are my all time worst, in no particular order:
1)The Flip Side of Satan
2) The Dear Departed
3)Finnegan’s Flight
4)The Doll of Death
5)The Tune in Dan’s Cafe
6)Whisper
7)The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes
8)Hatred Unto Death
9)The Funeral
10)House With Ghost
11)The Sins of the Fathers
12)Die Now, Pay Later
13)The Ghost of Sorworth Place
14)The House
15)A Matter of Semantics
16)A Feast of Blood
17)Witches’ Feast
18)Last Rites for a Dead Druid
19)The Last Laurel
20) Midnight Never Ends
OK. I gave my top ten favorite episodes so here is my top ten least favorite episodes.
1.Whisper
2. The NatureOf The Enemy
3. Quoth The Raven
4. The House
5. Witchs’ Feast
6. Junior
7. Keep In Touch- We’ll Thinl Of Something
8 Miss Lovecraft Sent Me
9 The Last Laurel
10. Midnight Never Ends (although it’s painting is my favorite from the Gallery)
Awwww. Even the poor ones I kinda liked. Have always had trouble sitting through “Whisper,” though.
My least favorite 20 Night Gallery episodes are the following stinkers:
1. The Nature of the Enemy
2. House- With Ghost
3. Quoth the Raven
4. An Act of Chivalry
5. The Diary
6. Logoda’s Heads
7. A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank
8. The Hand of Borgus Weems
9. Miss Lovecraft Sent Me
10. How to Cure the Common Vampire
11. Spectre in Tap Shoes
12. The Ring With the Red-Velvet Ropes
13. Stop Killing Me
14. The Last Laurel
15. With Apologies to Mr. Hyde
16. Hatred Unto Death
17. She’ll Be Company for You
18. Witches’ Feast
19. Keep in Touch – We’ll Think of Something
20. The Different Ones
Hi, is it possible to find the real address of the house in
the episode “The House” with Joanne Pettet?
Thank you.
The director, John Astin, said it was an old house on the Dick Powell ranch in Mandeville Canyon. I believe that would make it 3100 Mandeville Canyon Road in Brentwood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Here’s a link: https://sites.google.com/site/nolena/template227
Least Favorite: THE FLIP SIDE OF SATAN, CLASS OF ’99, PAMELA’S VOICE, MAKE ME LAUGH, when they tied in THE SIXTH SENSE series in syndication and as a bonus: when they changed the cool, scary, tunnel-like opening Gil Melle with the shrieky, screamy uniaginative open