![]() ![]() ![]() The original short story of "Escape Route" describes Josef Strobe as looking like a pig.Possibly also a Casting Gag as Cambridge had recently lost a lot of weight. He's played in the show by the rather handsome Godfrey Cambridge (also a Race Lift). Jackie Slater in "Make Me Laugh" is repeatedly described as fat and ugly in the original short story.It turns out he's dead too, and his punishment in Hell is her heaven, where she can just keep talking, and talking, and talking, and he can't do a thing about it. Adam Westing: Phyllis Diller, known for her piercing voice and laugh, plays the titular Pamela in "Pamela's Voice." That is, she's a dead woman who is haunting the husband ( John Astin) that killed her because, among all the things he hated about her, her voice was the number one thing he couldn't stand.Act of True Love: In "Death on a Barge", Hyacinth manages to restrain herself from draining Ron and tell him to stay away because she loves him.In the case of the Class Of 99, the students are robots that are being trained to replace humans. Academy of Evil: "Class of 99" and "The Academy," where it's implied the students never graduate in the case of The Academy, because it's actually a prison for juvenile criminals, where they are simply left to rot rather than reformed.Wheel Program: The show was part of NBC's Four in One in its first season before becoming a stand-alone program in season 2.Įpisodes of this series provide examples of:.One of the segments, "Eyes", was directed by a young Steven Spielberg, and starred an old Joan Crawford. Two of the stories were adapted from Serling's collection The Season to Be Wary. Museum of the Strange and Unusual: The Framing Device.Or in "Green Fingers," instead of the old lady's clone going after the Corrupt Corporate Executive who had her killed (not present in the story) it instead kills and replaces the original. ![]() "Clean Kills and Other Trophies" for example, ends with the abusive, hunting-obsessed father being turned into a head-on-the-wall by the black magic of a convenient Magical Negro in the original story, his son goes insane and does this with a rather more hands-on approach. Lighter and Softer: Some episodes are this compared to the short stories they were based on.Genre Anthology: Each episode featured somewhere between one and five stories, none of them connected to each other.Darker and Edgier: This show leans more towards horror than Rod Serling's previous series, The Twilight Zone.The latter change led to heavy re-editing, with longer stories cut down and shorter ones padded to fit the new length. In syndication, the run was stretched by adding repackaged stories from the short-lived Paranormal Investigation show The Sixth Sense and by splitting the first two seasons' episodes into half hours. It was canceled midway through the season. They range from one-minute vignettes to long stories taking up most of an episode's run time, and everything in between the number of segments per episode therefore varies accordingly.Īlthough the show was subject to Executive Meddling from the very beginning (much to Serling's displeasure unlike with The Twilight Zone, he didn't have creative control), the third season saw the most of this (and possibly a bit of Screwed by the Network), with episodes reduced to half an hour in length and the show's timeslot moved from Wednesday to Sunday. Unusually for the format, note and, oddly, bearing a certain resemblance to Sketch Comedy the individual segments are not of a set length. (The segments "Cool Air" and "Pickman's Model" are the first, and still the most famous, Lovecraft adaptations made for television.) The stories include both originals (many written by Serling) and adaptations of works from the likes of Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Basil Copper, and H. Each episode includes multiple segments tied together by the Framing Device of a gallery of paintings inspired by the featured stories. "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Night Gallery."Īn (initially) hour-long Horror and Speculative Fiction anthology series, hosted by Rod Serling, which ran on NBC for three seasons (1970–73).
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