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I watched every episode. It looked good to me. I kept hearing bad things about season 3, but I found it very good and entertaining.
Hi Wayne, There was only three seasons of Night Gallery.Hollywoodaholic said:I finished watching the Season 4 set last night and, while the season was overall very disappointing and I felt absolutely no presence of Rod Serling's touch, there was redemption in the "Lost Tales" reconstruction of the episode "Little Girl Lost" as a bonus on the set. This was easily the best written, acted and directed episode of the entire season - and it was one that had been gutted 6 minutes to fit with another piece in the 26-minute air slot. But also timely was a beautiful, nuanced performance by William Windom as the scientist with the apocalyptic fission formula that the army is trying to coax out of him by going along with the delusion that his dead 10 year-old girl is still alive. Wow. This is pretty powerful stuff for 1971 when the Vietnam war was still tearing the country apart about the role of the military. A military industrial complex exploiting a scientists' daughter's death and his mental breakdown over it just to get his formula for mass death. It doesn't get more cynical (but believable) than that.
Then I listen to the commentary and find out that Jack Laird (of all the lamest segments throughout Night Gallery) didn't get along with the director of this episode and never let him direct another episode. It figures. No wonder the season stunk so bad; the one innovative director they had (hey, let's forget that flood flat lighting and try some stuff) tried something different and was let go. Again, Rod Serling must have abdicated any control or care of this series to Laird, because this Season was a struggle to even get through except for this one 'little gem lost.'
Hi Wayne,Hollywoodaholic said:Thanks, Paul. Corrected. Brain burp since I've been going through Season 4 of Route 66. Season 4 of Night Gallery was forever lost... in The Twilight Zone.
Not necessarily.Hollywoodaholic said:Thanks, Paul. Corrected. Brain burp since I've been going through Season 4 of Route 66. Season 4 of Night Gallery was forever lost... in The Twilight Zone.
You have good list of shows. My all-time favorite tv shows of anthology genre would be the followingHollywoodaholic said:I'm a fan of Fringe on FOX, which will be premiering its last season this fall, but I haven't seen a good sci-fi or horror anthology series in a vampire's age. My favorites were The Outer Limits (1963), The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, Journey into the Unknown (1 season), Night Gallery, in that order. Amazing Stories, and Fear Itself didn't quite make the cut. I never saw the first run Tales From the Darkside. Those must of have been the party years.
Dave, I would love to see that happen too!Dave Lawrence said:I hope that eventually someone will release the series The Sixth Sense and include as a bonus Rod Serling's introductions to the episodes that were included in the NG syndication package.
Now if we could just get Region A blu-ray releases of Night Gallery done...Darby67 said:Fabulous Films is releasing both the complete series and the individual season sets on DVD on January 11, 2016 in Region 2:
Complete Series: http://www.fabulousfilms.com/products/278
Season One: http://www.fabulousfilms.com/products/279
Season Two: http://www.fabulousfilms.com/products/280
Season Three: http://www.fabulousfilms.com/products/281
With The Alfred Hitchcock Hour receiving the same type of releases on the same day and with Alfred Hitchcock Presents having been previously given the same type of releases back on October 26, 2015, Fabulous Films is truly on a roll!
younger1968 said:I have S1-S3 of Night Gallery on dvd and watch it from time to time, especially as we get closer to Halloween. I notice something that was interesting on S3 with the previews. The previews talk about Rockford files promoting S1-S5 and S6 to be released shortly. S6 for Rockford files came out in 2009 so why would previews not be adjusted to reflect this change considering that Night Gallery S3 came out in 2012.