Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Price, Mickey Rooney, Sally Field, Sandra Dee, Bill Bixby
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: April 10, 2012
• Run Time: 390 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B006TBYC76
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,631 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Join master of mystery Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) as he invites you into the transfixing world of fantasy, horror and science fiction of the Night Gallery. In its third and final season, Serling once again presents stories that still leave an undeniable chill, filled with restless spirits, murderous spouses and unidentified terrors that go bump in the night. Featuring a sensational roster of entertainment legends including Vincent Price, Mickey Rooney, Sally Field, Sandra Dee, Bill Bixby, and Leonard Nimoy, you'll want to be there as the final portrait of suspense is hung in the Night Gallery... forever.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

128 of 131 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars All of the Night Gallery episodes are complete--the way the original filmmakers intended April 9, 2012

By James D Benson

Format:DVD

I'm Jim Benson, co-author of the Night Gallery book with Scott Skelton. My production company TV Time Machine Productions and Scott, worked with Skip Martin of Universal Studios Digital Services and Universal Home Entertainment in the restoration of the "lost episode" for this DVD set (featuring the segments "Die Now, Pay Later," "Room For One Less," "Witches' Feast," and "Little Girl Lost"). Because of the complicated history of this series, sometimes there's some confusion. In the early 1970's, Night Gallery was heavily altered for syndication. Cut into half-hours, some segments were expanded with footage from other TV Shows and movies--totally unrelated to Night Gallery. Other segments were edited down drastically in order to meet time requirements for syndication. In the case of "Die Now, Pay Later," "Room For One Less," "Witches' Feast," and "Little Girl Lost," we worked from the original shooting scripts and from original studio notes, restoring these episodes to their original states, as intended by the original filmmakers back in the early 1970's.

111 of 116 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Includes "Lost Episode" and Two All-Time Classics February 8, 2012

By YetAnotherJames

Format:DVD

By the third season of Night Gallery, the network had cut its running time to thirty minutes rather than sixty--which left the show's creative team much more limited in how they could pace the vignettes. Tensions between writer/face-man Rod Serling and workaholic writer/producer Jack Laird had gotten worse than ever, and the show's use of the cheap-looking "day for night" technique--in which outdoor scenes were shot in daylight and then filtered to unconvincingly appear as "nighttime"--had reached an all-time high. Season three had several meandering episodes that barely held together a narrative thread ("Whisper" and "Death on a Barge," for example), and of the seventeen stories that originally aired (fifteen episodes), two are useless vampire puns (courtesy of Jack Laird, if I recall) and another two focus on killer animals (a gorilla and a jungle cat) rather than ghosts or monsters.

There are, however, two standouts that remain some of the best episodes of television to ever bear Serling's name. The first, "The Other Way Out," is a compelling tale, through-and-through, about a man who gets his comeuppance after murdering a "go-go dancer" and seemingly getting away with it--until he is lured to an isolated farm by a potential blackmailer. The second truly great story, "Finnegan's Flight," sees Burgess Meredith in his second and final Night Gallery appearance as a prison inmate whose imagination is so vivid that he can push the limits of the human mind's capabilities--and possibly bend the rules of reality.

Other good stories that would have been better as 20-minute pieces of an hour-long show, rather than 30-minute stories stretched a little too far, include "Fright Night," about a man who inherits a house with a mysterious, locked chest in the attic, and "Spectre In Tap Shoes," a murder mystery with a (possible, I don't want to ruin it) supernatural twist.

As a whole, season three of Night Gallery cannot hold a candle to the superior season one, which was short but with a high batting average of quality, or season two, which had many, many classic episodes due to sheer volume. Most episodes do have that unquantifiable "Night Gallery feel" that viewers crave, however, and "The Other Way Out" and "Finnegan's Flight" alone make this set worth owning.

Completist fans will also be happy to know that "Witches' Feast," in its entirety, is included in this set as part of a "lost episode" that was recently compiled. See the episode list below for the other three vignettes included in the "lost episode."

Guest stars include Vincent Price, Leonard Nimoy, Mickey Rooney, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Burl Ives, Burgess Meredith, and Dean Stockwell.

Episodes:
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Girl With the Hungry Eyes
Rare Objects
Spectre In Tap Shoes
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please
The Other Way Out
Fright Night
Finnegan's Flight
She'll Be Company For You
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Something in the Woodwork
Death on a Barge
Whisper
The Doll of Death
Hatred Unto Death/How to Cure the Common Vampire

BONUS FEATURES
Bonus vignettes, compiled as a "lost episode" and included here:
Die Now, Pay Later
Room for One Less
Little Girl Lost
Witches' Feast

Also, this set will include audio commentary on "The Return of the Sorcerer" as well as for the shorts included in the aforementioned "Lost Episode."

48 of 52 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It took long enough, Finally February 2, 2012

By Frank C. Murillo

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

By the time Night Gallery hits its third season its down to a half hour now.19 more episodes with a rash of great guest stars like Sandra Dee, Leonard Nimoy, Joanna Pettit, John Astin, James Farentino,Stuart Whitman, Barbara Anderson, Dean Stockwell, Sally Field, Leslie Ann Warren, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Vincent Price, Diana Merill, Bill Bixby, Tisha Sterling,Gary Lockwood,and Joan Van Ark to name a few.Not too many duds in this batch.Most of the episodes are really spooky and well done for its last year. Lets hope there are some good extras in this dvd set.Look forward to adding this to my dvd library and have the whole Night Gallery Collection.God bless Rod Serling for his insomnia for thats when many of his Twilight Zone script ideas came from and the same for Night Gallery.