Spotlight: Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: This Week on TV CONFIDENTIAL
Night Gallery, Rod Serling’s offbeat follow-up to The Twilight Zone, will be in the spotlight this week on TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Oct. 21 beginning at 10:30pm ET7:30pm PT
Set in a shadowy museum of the outré, Night Gallery (NBC, 1970-1973) was a highly diverse anthology series featuring tales in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction vein—all of which were introduced by a dark and disturbing collection of canvases unveiled by the museum’s “curator,” series host and creator Rod Serling. Bolstering Serling's thoughtful original dramas were adaptations of classic genre material, including short stories by such dark-fantasy luminaries as H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Conrad Aiken and Richard Matheson. The variety of material in Night Gallery brought with it a variety of tone, from the deadly serious to the tongue-in-cheek, stretching the television anthology concept to its very limits. Like The Twilight Zone, each segment of Night Gallery featured a dazzling array of guest stars from the worlds of film and television, as well as contributions from such promising young directors as John Badham and Steven Spielberg. Unlike Twilight Zone, the series was fraught with tension behind the scenes, including an ongoing conflict between creator Serling and producer Jack Laird over the direction of Night Gallery that would ultimately find Serling on the outside looking in.
Join Frankie Montiforte and me as we remember Night Gallery along with Jim Benson, co-author of Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour and a consultant on the upcoming Night Gallery: Season TwoDVD package. If you’re a fan of Rod Serling, if you have a favorite episode of Night Gallery, we invite you to join our conversation this Tuesday, Oct. 21 beginning at 10:30pm ET7:30pm PT
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at10:30pm ET7:30pm PT
Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org
www.tvconfidential.net
blog.tvconfidential.net
Also available as a podcast via iTunes
Set in a shadowy museum of the outré, Night Gallery (NBC, 1970-1973) was a highly diverse anthology series featuring tales in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction vein—all of which were introduced by a dark and disturbing collection of canvases unveiled by the museum’s “curator,” series host and creator Rod Serling. Bolstering Serling's thoughtful original dramas were adaptations of classic genre material, including short stories by such dark-fantasy luminaries as H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Conrad Aiken and Richard Matheson. The variety of material in Night Gallery brought with it a variety of tone, from the deadly serious to the tongue-in-cheek, stretching the television anthology concept to its very limits. Like The Twilight Zone, each segment of Night Gallery featured a dazzling array of guest stars from the worlds of film and television, as well as contributions from such promising young directors as John Badham and Steven Spielberg. Unlike Twilight Zone, the series was fraught with tension behind the scenes, including an ongoing conflict between creator Serling and producer Jack Laird over the direction of Night Gallery that would ultimately find Serling on the outside looking in.
Join Frankie Montiforte and me as we remember Night Gallery along with Jim Benson, co-author of Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour and a consultant on the upcoming Night Gallery: Season Two
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at
Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org
www.tvconfidential.net
blog.tvconfidential.net
Also available as a podcast via iTunes
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