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Subject: Night Gallery
Ok, this is a really old show called " Night Gallery" I don't know if it was form the 60s or 70s but I know it's an old tv show.
Anyway, there is this one episode that I really like, but I've only seen it once.
It's the one about the old man who is sick and his grandson kills him. Then the old man's ghost comes back in one of his paintings.
That one time that I watched it, I remember thinking it was pretty scarey!
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
Yep, I remember it. The one you're talking about is a movie. It contained three different stories.
Roddy McDowell was the grandson and Ossie Davis was the butler. The painting changes, each one the grandfather gets closer to the door and then the grandson hears a banging on the door and tries to get away and falls down the steps.
It was the butler who was changing the paintings because he was next in line for all the money.
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
or..how about where the mother is dying and each night the older son would read to her in bed, and you would see their shadows on the wall of him reading with his mother propped up on her pillows...the family then poisons her and when they go into her room after she's gone, HER shadow is still on the wall as if she were propped up in bed listening to her stories!!!!
They try to repaint the wall, rearrange the furniture and it still remains!!
YIIIIIIIIIKES!
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
I remember the weekly series back in the early 70's. My mom wouldn't let me watch it tho'. I would go to school the next day and kids would be discussing it as being terribly scary. :o
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
Butterball is right. It is from the '70's, because I use to watch it when I was in college during the '70's. That episode with Ossie Davis and Roddy McDowell was in the pilot for the television show. There were also episodes with Richard Kiley and Joan Crawford. The Joan Crawford episode was directed by a then unknown director named Steven Spielberg. I wonder what ever happened to him.
If one wants to find out more about the program, I suggest reading "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson, as they go into each episode of the program.
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
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If one wants to find out more about the program, I suggest reading "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson, as they go into each episode of the program.
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Just as a side note, Rod Serling really didn't have much to do with the show Night Gallery. The network just wanted his name "stamp" on the show title for effect. Serling had a rep for being difficult with scripts and quality of writting on his shows, he demanded the best.
The producers knew this, and signed him on. When he came around to make suggestions and changes, they locked him out. He was just a talking head for the opening sequeces of the show, thats it.
Personally he hated the situation and wanted his name taken off the show's title. To say that he was not happy with Night Gallery is an understatement.
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
Night Gallery included my introduction to the works of H. P. Lovecraft - Pickman's Model.
The Auld Grump
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
I will never forget "Night Gallery". When I was 4-5 years old,it was probably the scariest tv show on the air.My mom warned me that "Night Gallery" was very frightening,and if I watched it,the show would probably give me nightmares. I stayed up with my dad one night, and we watched one NG episode regarding a girl that owned a medallion. The medallion was in the shape of a insect like creature. When she took off the medallion before she went to bed,it came to life, and flew around in the sky, biting people,and drinking their blood. :o Sure enough, the episode gave me a nightmare! :-[ Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
Subject: Re: Night Gallery
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Ok, this is a really old show called " Night Gallery" I don't know if it was form the 60s or 70s but I know it's an old tv show.
Anyway, there is this one episode that I really like, but I've only seen it once.
It's the one about the old man who is sick and his grandson kills him. Then the old man's ghost comes back in one of his paintings.
That one time that I watched it, I remember thinking it was pretty scarey!
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Here is the history of the show:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065327/