Night Gallery: Season One

finally i found it, i've been looking my entire life. as a kid i saw the pilot episodes and forgot the name of the series. quick question on fb i got my answer!!!, but one copy does not have the pilot ep's, lucky this did. great stories defo worth a trip down memory lane.

Fantastic series really enjoyed it...... I'm now fifty years of age and maybe it could be a generational thing but if you like Hitchcock or The Twilight Zone give this a go...... but please note this is a Region A disc and will only play on multi regional players..... Enjoy.

This is an absolutely fantastic price for a DVD BOX SET of this quality AND standards. Three discs with all of the first seasons episodes. If unlike me you have never heard of this show, I can let you in on a little secret, it is similar to The Outer Limits? Remember that? NO ???Well if I say "The Twilight Zone" ??? Ah ha! YES! It's by the man who did those, its really like an old fashioned Tales Of The Unexpected, except with more Hollywood galmour.Featuring some unmistakeable stars as Joan Crawford and Larry Hagman and others.

This has some good stories and some that bored me - but that's because our ideas of what scares us differ. I loved 'Eyes', 'The House' and 'Little Black Bag' but felt I was just marking time till the next story while watching 'The Nature of the Enemy' because I perfer psychological spooking to sci fi. The biggest disappointment for me was the one starring VIncent Price, which is a pity because he's brilliant - the story let him down. Not quite a five star collection but well worth a look. And - trying hard to avoid a spoiler here - did anybody else watch 'Little Black Bag' and think 'They're not really going to show him doing that, are they?'

I was very happy when I found Night Gallery Season 1, at Amazon. This I watched years ago as a child in Jamaica, when TV shows were only shown in Black and White. My husband, kids and I just can't get enough of this, as the episodes are just the perfect length for viewing. Only downfall is...We hungered for more !!!Season 2, here we come !

Twilight Zone was great but Night Gallery was too, I bought this being a fan of Serling and found it to be both riveting, unnerving and scary without being in your face about it. The tones and score provide the chills and such moving performances bring the stories out. I loved Roddy Macdowell and was surprised to find him in an episode where he wasnt cast as comedy relief.

Good spooky series. I watch it from time to time. I have watched episodes over the years. I don't binge watch. May have to get further series.

Good DVD,however does not work on all models but I have a cheap DVD player that it worked on playback DVD player allowed me to see all the episodes.not as good as the twilight series black and white ones.stories are different.

I am very happy that season 1 of The Night Gallery is on blu-ray. KL Classics have done a great job of presenting this first season. The picture and sound are amazing, especially knowing the history of how the studio did not take care of the property in the past. This series was treated like a red headed step child when compared to The Twilight Zone. The bonus features are amazing. The 58 minute documentary on how the series was brutally mangled for syndication in the early 70s is great. Also, the audio commentaries are nothing to sneeze at. Plus, the documentary stated that KL Classics will release the remaining seasons in 2022. This is good news for any Night Gallery fans!

Super product

Galería Nocturna - Vol. 1 [DVD ]No puedo valorar objetivamente esta serie, está emocionalmente vinculada a mi infancia, cuando la veía cada semana aun sabiendo que luego sería incapaz de dormirme despreocupadamente pues, como niño, no dejaba de darle vueltas a lo que acababa de ver.La imagen es muy buena (salvo en el primer episodio, que fue el piloto y se aprecia suciedad en el metraje aquí y allá), el doblaje es español latino y lo único que echo de menos es que no tenga subtítulos en castellano.No lamento la compra Galería Nocturna - Vol. 1 [DVD

Night Gallery...where does one begin? For those like myself (or older) who grew up in the 70's, little explanation as to who Rod Serling was should be needed. Likewise, his creations such as Twilight Zone and Night Gallery require very little introduction. For those thrill seekers of younger generations however, a few words may indeed be in order...while Twilight Zone is still something of a household name, these days Night Gallery receives a bit less notoriety.Perhaps the best way to think of Night Gallery is as a collection of "short stories". Each episode typically contains 2 or 3 stories or mini episodes, although some are longer (or shorter) than others, with each episode introduced as a painting by Rod Serling..."a nightmare captured on canvas". To say that Night Gallery was something of a "reboot" (to use modern vernacular) of Serling's more classic and more recognized Twilight Zone is quite an inadequate analogy. While Gallery shares many similar themes with TZ, particularly that of science fiction and the macabre, in this reviewer's opinion Gallery was rather darker with a considerably larger creep factor. While TZ had a tendency to cover many ideas and not all of the episodes where horror related, (ala "Mr. Bevis" and "Cavender is Coming"), Gallery tends to stick more with the macabre (even when they're poking fun at it). Unlike so much of modern horror that relies on shock value and hack & slash brutality, so much of which modern audiences have been rather desensitized to, while it does have moments here and there, Night Gallery tends to be a bit more cerebral. Instead of trying to terrify viewers with blood, guts, gore and chainsaws, Gallery is the type of viewing that tends to seep into one's subconscious to abuse the viewers imagination, similar to the way Hitchcock had a tendency to do. It's the kind of viewing that can still give a few folks nightmares, not so much because of what they saw on the screen, but because of the seed that was planted in the back of the brain.As a person who still remembers when this show first aired, for me personally it still maintains much of it's potency. Is it a bit dated? To see actors like John Astin still in his prime, the answer to that would have to be something of a "yea...probably". For modern audiences who've had their imagination utterly beaten into submission by the likes of Steven King, John Carpenter and Wes Craven, Night Gallery may not have the edge that many people today seem to expect from a good creep fest. The feel of the series over-all is more akin to that of The Shining...except without a crazed Jack Nicholson bursting thru the door with an axe. There tends to be a somber, almost ethereal feeling to Night Gallery that's most fitting for the content. For those of us with a taste for such entertainment, Night Gallery is still one of those series that's best viewed at 1 in the morning, under the covers with the lights out and a bowl of popcorn, while you're half asleep (which isn't intended as an insult in ANY way!).The cast of the various episodes, is a veritable "who's who" of 60's and 70's actors. Joan Crawford, Roddy McDowell, John Astin, Tom Bosley, Sam Jaffe, Burgess Merideth, Diane Keaton, Larry Hagman, Agnes Moorehead, John Colicos, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, David Carradine, Patty Duke, Cesar Romero, Lindsey Wagner ...even Vincent Price and the great Bela Lugosi and even Orson Wells pokes his head in for a voice over...the list is rather impressive to say the least. Likewise the production values were also quite high, particularly considering that this was an era long before the extensive use of green screen and CG. Visually the episodes still stand up rather well when one factors in that these were shot in the early 70's. ..scenes with "computers" for example still had those big ol' spinning reel to reel tapes, as apposed to the average laptop one sees today. Don't expect to see an Ipod or Smart Phone here...people used rotary phones and still dialed up the operator back then! That said, while a bit subjective I think there is an element to Night Gallery that modern productions lack as well. Because CG hadn't really been invented yet (beyond the likes of Godzilla and Ray Harryhausen that is) the directors and producers used a degree of imagination...the use of slow motion and unusual camera angles for example...to build suspense and enhance the visual quality of the story telling. There was an art to television production back then that some could argue has been lost in recent decades.The quality of this DVD set is, in my not so humble opinion, superb. I've seen a negative comment or two regarding the preservation/restoration of these episodes, however I must say that the quality FAR exceeds that of the day when my father had to fish the UHF antenna (metal coat hanger) around on top of the old Zenith 19". In this case, I would simply offer people a sense of perspective...sure stereo CD's don't sound as "awesome" as HD 7.1 surround sound, but then they still sound a far sight better than the scratchy old 78's that my grandparents would listen to on the Victrola! In this case, on my 27" crt at least, the colors are crisp, vivid and sharp and the sound is excellent. While this set does include the original pilot episode, don't expect a great deal as far as "dvd extras" go...it's not like Serling was doing Peter Jackson style blogs back in the early 70's and you won't find many (any) commentaries on this set. These are however the original versions of the episodes (as I remember them at least) as apposed to the utterly hacked versions that later appeared in syndication. For any fan of Rod Serling or Night Gallery, that alone makes this set a must have for the collection.I'm not going to go too much into the individual episodes themselves as there's PLENTY written about that already...if you really need a spoiler or two, they're not hard to find on the internet. I will say that like virtually every tv show ever produced, some episodes do stand out more than others. Obviously even Twilight Zone had a few klunkers and certainly all the greats from The Honeymooners to Star Trek and onward have had at least a few episodes here and there where people will sit there, scratch their heads and ask, "What the hell were they thinking???". On the other hand, episodes like "The House" can still leave the viewer a bit creeped out (one I still remember from the early days) and here over 40 years later, such episodes still stand up well. That said, I don't think Night Gallery had any truly "bad" episodes...even "Pamela's Voice" had a certain comedic factor that has to be appreciated. Like Twilight Zone and every other tv show, there will always be a few favorites and a few that were just "ok".Finally I will say that Night Gallery, like Twilight Zone, being a rather specific genre, along with being a tv show from the early 70's, is likely to appeal to a fairly specific audience. If Disneyesque is your thing, even today Night Gallery may be a bit disturbing. If you crave the mindless, redundant slash and gore of Craven, you could be a bit disappointed. If you don't really know what "macabre" actually means, you may not get it. If however you're like me and grew up on the legend of Rod Serling and still enjoy those good night frights, then this collection is certainly a must have and should bring back many pleasant...and somewhat disturbing memories :-)

Des histoires pleines de terreur et de suspense écrites par des meilleurs auteurs et bien adaptées à l'écran. Bon rapport qualité-prix.