Overview of 'Night Gallery' Season 2

Episode 1 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?

Release Date: 1971-09-15

A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.

Episode 2 - A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast

Release Date: 1971-09-22

Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. A brief incantation in verse while a coven hungrily awaits an overdue member.

Episode 3 - Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan

Release Date: 1971-09-29

A college professor suspects that his visiting aunt is an ancient witch--with designs on inhabiting his wife's body. Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion. A callous disc jockey is offered up as a hellish sacrifice at a deserted radio station.

Episode 4 - A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy

Release Date: 1971-10-06

An arachnophobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy, and obstinate, little guest crawling in his kitchen sink. A mother and father learn the hardships of parenting. A careless braggart foolishly exaggerates his meager talents to a crackpot surgeon. A widower investigates an unusually strict military academy for his delinquent son.

Episode 5 - The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Release Date: 1971-10-20

A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.

Episode 6 - A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked

Release Date: 1971-10-27

An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.

Episode 7 - Midnight Never Ends / Brenda

Release Date: 1971-11-03

A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences. A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.

Episode 8 - The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

Release Date: 1971-11-10

A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.

Episode 9 - House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells

Release Date: 1971-11-17

A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.

Episode 10 - The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something

Release Date: 1971-11-24

A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader. A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.

Episode 11 - Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry

Release Date: 1971-12-01

A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.

Episode 12 - Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven

Release Date: 1971-12-08

A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.

Episode 13 - The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror

Release Date: 1971-12-15

Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.

Episode 14 - The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads

Release Date: 1971-12-29

In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.

Episode 15 - Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe

Release Date: 1972-01-05

An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.

Episode 16 - Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood

Release Date: 1972-01-12

A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.

Episode 17 - The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place

Release Date: 1972-01-19

An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.

Episode 18 - The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid

Release Date: 1972-01-26

A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.

Episode 19 - Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight

Release Date: 1972-02-09

A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.

Episode 20 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes

Release Date: 1972-02-16

The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts. A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.

Episode 21 - The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore

Release Date: 1972-02-23

A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.

Episode 22 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

Release Date: 1972-03-01

A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.