Night Gallery is an American anthology television series that aired on NBC from December 16, 1970, to May 27, 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre.

[1] Serling appeared in an art gallery setting as the curator and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artists Thomas J. Wright and Jaroslav "Jerry" Gebr) that depicted the stories.

Each is a collector’s item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspended in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.” 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.

Night Gallery's multi-segment presentation mirrored the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and hadn't been seen on television before, except for on the one-off "Trio for Terror" episode of Thriller in 1961.

The second segment of the film, "Eyes," was the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford.

According to Rod Serling's wife Carol, NBC envisioned Night Gallery as being a show about "action, ghouls and gore".

In its second season, the series began using original comic blackout sketches between the longer story segments in some episodes,[2] with this concept being conceived by Jack Laird.

"[4] It has been claimed that NBC pushed for Night Gallery to become strictly an action show for the third season, with no supernatural elements, although this would not end up being the case.

This 1970–1971 television series rotated four separate shows, including McCloud, SFX (San Francisco International Airport) and The Psychiatrist.

Lovecraft), "The Doll", "Green Fingers", "Lindemann's Catch", and "The Messiah on Mott Street" (heavily influenced by Bernard Malamud's "Angel Levine").

While Serling was displeased with the creative interference on Night Gallery, he still mentioned "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" as one of the best pieces of work he'd written, putting it above even his Twilight Zone material.

[10] Night Gallery was nominated for an Emmy Award for its first-season episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" as the Outstanding Single Program on American television in 1971.

Many segments were severely cut, and others extended by inserting "new" scenes of recycled, previously discarded, or stock footage to fill up the time.

In order to have more commercials, some television stations required a few extra minutes be cut from episodes, in addition to the edits that had already been made by Tatelman.

[2] In later years, stations would simply speed up the episodes instead of creating their own edits, which would lead to a higher pitch in the voice of the actors.

[2] The original, uncut and un-edited hour-long version of the series (and without the additional Sixth Sense episodes) has been shown on STARZ!’s Encore Mystery premium movie cable network.

[citation needed] The show has aired in the 30-minute syndicated format in several markets through the Retro Television Network in the past.

MeTV had broadcast rights for Night Gallery and aired the show in its syndicated, 30-minute format, including the edited The Sixth Sense episodes.

[12] Reba Wissner, Kim Newman, Stephen Jones, and Mark Dawidziak and "Art Gallery: The Paintings" Similar series