Night Gallery Opening and Closing Theme 1969 - 1973 With Snippets

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Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series,
The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories.
Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself.
The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford. Allegedly, Bette Davis was set to star in the segment, but she felt her work was not important to a young director. However there is nothing in the files at Universal to suggest anyone other than Crawford was slated for the role.

[@geemanbmw]

Rod Serling was and always will be TOP SHELF!! He is a LEGEND!!

[@skinfanjay]

Real talk

[@devinweathers7520]

A SAUVE AND MOST MEMERBLE VOICES OF THE DECADES

[@snapmalloy5556]

World War II paratrooper

[@MrsJHarrington]

I totally agree!

[@jaspercooper5180]

💯💯🔥🔥 ALWAYZ

[@Yankee_Redneck6698]

Gawd damnedest creepiest tv show for any kid of the 70's. Hell... That theme song STILL gives me the shivers.

[@seanc6468]

I'm 53 y o and the opening still gives me the same chills as a kid.

[@tiny5500]

Just tuned in and at 56 it was the same with me lol. Goose bumps and flash backs! Then there was the other intro that ended with the painting of Satan. Ah what time, cheers!🤘

[@fhoneman]

Same here

[@flamethedarktruesalt9347]

Agree! As a 6 year old, when I heard that haunting/disturbing theme from the next room, I knew mom and dad were watching Night Gallery.

[@tiny5500]

@@flamethedarktruesalt9347 Perfect 👍😎

[@ecgodsmack86]

Rod Serling R.I.P. thanks for your art to this world

[@johnwalko1483]

Rod Serling is the best! No one intros a story like Rod Serling, and no one ever will!

[@battlestarmarc]

Serling was a genius. Great story writer.

[@amethystdreamarian4076]

Night Gallery used to scare the hell out of me. I was only 8 years old & used to stay up late to watch it with my grandmother back in the late 60s to early 70s. Our old house use to make creepy sounds at night too hahaaaa... I loved Night Gallery with Rod Serling & that suspenseful opening, introducing each short story with those eerie paintings & you never knew what was going to happen. hahaaaaaaaa.....

[@barry4134]

Man I remember staying up late with Dad eating pizza and watching Night Gallery, that was pretty cool. For some reason this show and the theme could really give you the Willy's.

[@Laceykat66]

Whenever they try to reboot these they always forget that there was only ONE Rod Serling. He is an essential element to this or the Twilight Zone.

[@tedkier3264]

laceykat66- perhaps one should contact Rod (seance?) prior to repeating such an errant faux pah in future?

[@geemanbmw]

Agreed

[@JxT1957]

im a big fan of the original black and white twilight zone but the new 2002 twilight zone episodes are awesome too

[@jerrywithrow5195]

Rod Serling also wrote a western show for television that I only recently found out about. It is called Lonesome it only lasted for a season but it is on dvd and Very good also I think.

[@jerrywithrow5195]

@Cornelius Esperanza correct

[@wannabehendrix]

The sequence of the man coming out of the grave, walking to the house, knocking on the door and entering. I remember watching that with friends! It did not show it here, but it was a painting. The victim kept staring at it, and the camera went from his eyes to the painting. Each time showing the dead man coming closer! Needless to say, we did not sleep well that night!!

[@shinjiikari6866]

that was the tv pilot called the cemetery. the one i liked was surprise and make me laugh along with messiah on mot street

[@shandreya]

www.dailymotion.com/video/x5i639b

[@gfernandez9285]

Funny u said about watching with friends...it's the only time I'd watch this show too lol, hut I'd watch all the others by myself, tales from crypt, the hitchhiker, tales from the darkside

[@yshuff7603]

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE EPISODE!! WAS SCARED OUT OF MY MIND AS A KID THO! lmaoooo

[@IsaiahRidleyIzzyCinema]

Yes!! My dad was a huge Night Gallery fan and he rented the VHS one night which contained the episode you're talking about. One of the scariest episodes that I watched and it kept me awake at night. You simply don't have that kind of eerie, intense, and creepy atmosphere where it doesn't show the monster and what's left to your imagination when the door opens was simply more horrifying.

[@greglapointe1311]

I fell asleep on the couch with a Night Gallery dvd in the player and the episodes were over and the creepy music just kept looping, very unsettling.

[@signx]

The best and truly the only horror tv show ever made. It was darker and more macabre than most horror movies today. We need a TV channel today, that airs this kind of horror gems daily.

[@m.oriley8260]

Oh, Bernardo I'd love to start up my own retro channel.

[@MrFootballfu]

It was truly unforgettable. As a child The more intelligent you were the more frightened you were poetry, art etc

[@charlesmartel5907]

Boris Karloff’s “Thriller” ( 1960-1962 ) came in a close second. Part Horror/Part Crime Drama. Some of the best horror episodes were “The Grim Reaper” ( starring a young William Shatner ), “The Devil’s Ticket”, “The Weird Tailor”, “Pigeons From Hell”, “The Terror In Teakwood”, “A Wig For Miss Devore”, “Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper”, “Waxworks”, and “The Incredible Doktor Markasen” ( starring the host, Boris Karloff ). Some very classic, creepy, eerie stories from a most unheralded and nearly forgotten television series ( and one of Stephen King’s favorites ) 😮💀👹

[@michaelbarlow6610]

Supposedly the quality of the episodes on "Night Gallery" was inconsistent primarily because Rod Serling did not have creative control over the show's content as he had with "The Twilight Zone".

[@williamhaynes4800]

My GF and I were watching The Cemetery on Halloween night. After we gave out all the candy, we turned off the porch light and settled in to enjoy our scary movie night. We were at the part when Jeremy got out of the grave in the painting and walked to the door. Then some little kid pounded on my front door at that moment. I jumped so far I may have tied an Olympic record. I will never watch that episode or The Shining after dark again.

[@michaelbruns449]

Forever etched and welded into my memory, totally haunting and sublime, unearthly sounds and visuals.

[@tonymarzocco8962]

I got my vocabulary from Rod. No joke. A true wordsmith 😊

[@alanhigh8125]

Purchased the complete series several years ago. I try to watch a few episodes during the last week of October. It really sets the mood. Shame it's not possible to order prints of the paintings used in the series.

[@mycolortv1]

The episode the cemetery starring Roddy McDowall and Ossie Davis was without a doubt the best one

[@stanleynickjedrzejczyk4533]

mycolortv1 Followed closely by "Pickman's Model" and "The Caterpillar " The three best episodes of a truly classic show, one of the first I loved since 1972 at age 3! [e-mail]

[@tedkier3264]

MYCOLORTV1 i liked green fingers, or the shadows on the wall episodes best

[@rodolfogarcia1294]

mycolortv1 Painted Mirror and Caterpillar were great episodes also

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

If Tony Perkins had never been born I think Roddy would have been good in Psycho...

[@TheDoorman55]

@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Thank God he was!

[@TheDumontShow]

one of the greatest writers of all time. none could ever top him with the stories he wrote. stories that brought chills down your spine. not because it was scary, but because it left you thinking so critically, it scared you knowing the characters he often wrote about, were ultimately like us. he made me look at writing completely different. The Twilight Zone is the greatest TV show of all time. Night Gallery was never really his show. He didn't really have that creative control he had with The Twilight Zone but Night Gallery is still a classic and better than a lot of shows today. You could never see this type of show on network television again

[@mizzsimones]

The music and the artwork has always given me chills of excitement!

[@MasterJediDude]

Good news! The new Blu-ray set has all of the episodes restored to their original length!

[@michaelwilson4621]

absolutely terrified me as a 4-5 year old. My room was right beside the living room and i could hear this at night when my parents were watching this program.

[@TimelordR]

Now this was the kind of show that gave me nightmares & yet it was entertaining. A pity shows like Night Gallery have no place in today's wretched "Reality TV" littered wasteland.

[@1958Shemp]

Check out BLACK MIRROR on Netflix -- a TZ-like anthology with leaning toward technology-based stories!

[@jamesryan6224]

Netflix is destroying free youtube and causing cell service to rise in price.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Someone called it a horror version of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE!

[@tonytafoya6217]

Entropy. Everything turns to shit.

[@theonlyonestanding6832]

Night Gallery is too classy for today's audience

[@Porsche996driver]

Ya that opening and music still haunts me from 45 years ago as a 10yo kid ha. Rod Serling was a genius.

[@joeomalley2835]

Rod Serling was a genius and produced such thought-provoking material in both The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.

[@spankyblack6119]

I loved The Night Gallery.

[@KristinesTruth]

I was a child when this show aired and I miss it so much. I loved the anthologies they had on tv back then I cannot abide anything on rv now. And horror is not the same.

[@williamhaynes4800]

How did Serling sleep at night with all those NG episodes in his head? Even the theme music is eerie.

[@MrFootballfu]

I was a child in Ireland in the 70s it was definitely the most scariest and entertaining /fascinating thought provoking, still frightened today, storytellers take a lesson

[@dennymandrake9817]

Remember when you were home alone on Friday night...

[@DarkeyeSpots]

I'm 59. Back in the day, I loved watching the Night Stalker with Darren McGavin. After that, it was bedtime. My big sister got to stay up later and would watch this. The opening theme music always scared the crap out of me. Fond memories.

[@martinl.lazarinejr.2781]

this show scared the hell out of me as a kid but i loved it

[@lambdastudios4083]

Man I wish this was still running. Excellent TV Program!

[@lydellflood8818]

You can still watch. On the NBC app on Roku.

[@matthewrs7]

This show is like a fever dream. Really stood out and was super unique.

[@HEROSMUSIC1]

WHEN I WAS CHILD I ALWAYS AFRAID AS HELL TO WATCH IT,EVERY NIGHT BRINGS ME NIGHTMARES.

[@jenniehakim7076]

This was as scary as it could get on TV back then! 😱

[@bassplayer1966]

The METV channel has Night gallery episodes in the very early AM, set your DVR! I've been able to watch well over 15-20 just in the last couple weeks, I'm so happy now! My all-time favorite is The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes, still haven't seen that one in this lot yet.

[@bassplayer1966]

@grozbeek mose watched she'll keep you company episode with Leonard Nimoy and Lorraine Gray, it's a strange one and creepy

[@velociraptorimperator4299]

Be advised, this is the notorious "syndication package" with episodes re-edited and padded plus Gary Collins' ESP series "The Sixth Sense, "reformatted with added Serling intros to masquerade as Gallery episodes, Best to buy the original broadcast DVDs

[@theonlyonestanding6832]

I remember this show when I was a little kid in the 70s.....I didn't understand the story but the vibes of the show and the paintings made it scary for me..

[@dionneeldridge6137]

One of my favorite shows forever!!!!💝😍rod serling is a sick genius!!!!!😘

[@battlestarmarc]

You have good taste. night Gallery was awesome.

[@jomama5186]

I really enjoyed watching this show growing up :)

[@goblinshark3552]

Hail Rod Serling!

[@anotherone1001]

The Caterpillar with Joanna Pettit and Lawrence Harvey is the most terrifying episode.

[@wesmcgee1648]

In my early teens back then. Absolutely loved this show.

[@markstahle874]

Love Night Gallery since it premiered back in 1970!

[@jonimichalski69]

Rod serling Genius

[@maryburrell3948]

I always loved the creepy into music and the creepy art

[@luisreyes1963]

Credit goes to Gil Mellé & Tom Wright.

[@SuggestiveSquirrels]

I would run out of the room covering my ears and screaming every time this opening music would start ...scared the living crap out of me as a kid...I'm 58 now.

[@battlestarmarc]

Great show. Much creepier than twilight zone. Both shows were great. Serling was a genius. Should have been on longer.

[@rachelgilbert708]

Anyone else watching in their 30’s and just found out about this show??? My folks showed me The Twilight Zone growing up and I have no idea how I’m just finding out about this show now!!

[@michaelflores9220]

I'm 29 and only just found out

[@tonytafoya6217]

It still makes my hair stand on end and my skin crawl!

[@kathykilduff6714]

The opening theme and pictures in 'the gallery' used to scare me and my brother half to death. We were in elementary school and lived out in the country in FL, back when that meant you were in the woods and there was no light pollution. Dark and scary!! 😱. LOL. Memories of back when....

[@robertbanning9138]

The opening credits terrified me as well!

[@phlogistanjones2722]

HOLY HANNAH that still creeps me right out! R.I.P. Mr Serling. A giant of a man.

[@gundulamuller-weathersby3070]

Thriller, Twilight Zone and...Night Gallery. Still gives me thrills and chills.

[@venturefanatic9262]

OMFG...I remember this as a toddler. Gave me nightmares but I loved all of it.

[@dfa3366]

It’s a shame this great series is not streaming.

[@CFkatehudson]

I have a vague memory of this show from my early childhood. It haunts me to this day 50 years later.

[@dbsthumper]

as a child,l used to watch this show during my visits to my grandmother,the theme still gives me the creeps 😅

[@RNFORLAW]

The TV snippets used to scare the shit out of me when I was a little kid but could never stay up late enough to watch it as it was on at 11:00PM.

[@susanroche597]

We need blue ray remastered of this amazing show😊

[@blindlemon9]

Gil Melle, who wrote this music, remains criminally under-recognized as a composer.

[@RaineStudio]

People just ignore the music like it isn't there, even in a KZbin video about the music.

[@myplacerighthear3691]

The days of great writers and implementation to film are no longer here.. rod serling's night gallery was the perfect example of the greatest of the horror IQ rights of a long-gone age of perfection in imagination and traits that haunt.. we will no longer most likely never see sech of such eclectic writing such as rod serling's night gallery series. So past these stories on to each upcoming generations that they may experience what true nightmares are from the minds of men who matter

[@LancerMyMan]

This was a wonderful clip.

[@seanmccall7277]

When I was 5 or 6, this show ( especially the beginning) scared the crap out me.

[@chandacat]

The intro for this show still gives me chills. I was just a little girl when it was on and that intro terrified me.

[@nahmaninisithole2734]

"Camera obscura" or something like that was a good one. Also the one of a subject who was hypnotized then died is a favorite. Jeff Corey is in it. Finally who can forget the story of the fellow hiring a killer to knock off a romantic rival only to become the victim when the insect was put into his own head by mistake? Very haunting indeed!

[@1958Shemp]

Jeff Corey was also an acting teacher and a director as well as actor!

[@ssolo8]

Earwig??

[@JP5466]

They are: "The Dead Man" and "The Caterpillar"

[@Fuzunga]

Man, I was looking for the opening they used in the pilot because I think that one is way better. I've been watching this for the first time recently and was immediately struck by the amazing theme song, only to be disappointed that it was only in the pilot.

[@Cyber_Smoke]

Late reply but I totally agree I showed my friend the second episode and said look how cool the intro is only to be another one.

[@loilt5091]

Huge fan…first became interested during this series, later discovering the legendary Twilight Zone. His original, Requiem For a Heavyweight, with Jack Palance, is must see, live TV! Rod’s signature artistry’s all over the final scene of the original Planet of the Apes. A monster talent that left us before his time. 🇨🇦

[@umarbentley4953]

That theme music is haunting!!It will literally shake you,so ahead of it's time. 💀👹👿

[@baronvonblueeyes7685]

Rod Serling was a genius

[@beardedxdeath]

After 20 plus years I finally found this.

[@davidasher8718]

This is awesome. The best part of the show was always the introduction

[@zachlafleur6651]

While I have been watching Twilight Zone and Night Gallery off and on since I was a young kid back in the 1980s, when they used to rerun both shows on independent UHF channels in the Detroit and Lansing areas of Michigan, I didn't really have a favorite episode, just enjoyed the suspense and horror of these shows. My favorite episode within the last year or maybe even as far back as eight to nine years ago would have to be You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore. Talk about role reversals here between robotic aides meant to be just like humans, and the humans who severely abuse and mistreat them especially Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Fulton (a rich couple who enjoy throwing debauched parties in their living room and happen to be quite the drunks themselves). After one such party, they get theirs and get their humanity switched with the robots, and for the first time, robots become human. Broderick Crawford plays a role totally opposite of his Dan Matthews Highway Patrol role (but one more like his experience with alcohol in real life, which about two decades ago, was just like mine). Then Cloris Leachman plays his wife (unnamed in the episode), and she has that line where she says we don't employ you, we own you (referring to the robotic maid that they bought to replace the one that they totally destroyed, well they got this one for free due to their experience with the previous robot). One of the best episodes, and in a way totally relatable to me.

[@karenthomas4849]

As a little kid the opening theme would freak me out

[@melissa6976]

Oh this show always got me big time ❤

[@samuelglass6805]

Actually, the opening theme you used was by Gil Melle. The end theme was composed for Season Three by Eddie Sauter.

[@richinoable]

Such cheezy, dated tv. I remember waiting up until all hours to watch this in reruns. Farm report and station signoff followed.

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

Damn! That last snippet gave me goosebumps! 😱And this is 2023!!

[@derekseven1647]

Great stuff, Thanks for the upload.

[@TeeVeesGreatest]

your SO welcome bud!

[@petepoulos]

After Rod Serling lost creative control he started relating to it as Mannix In A Graveyard

[@Empyreanabove]

Or 'Mannix with a shroud' as Stephen King put in Danse Macabre!

[@Icarais69]

Alas, Serling had little control. Early on, the network wanted the scripts to pretty much be his, to establish the show. Once it was established, producer Jack Laird (who resented Serling, and wanted his presence only as a figurehead) took it more and more in his own direction, and Serling was essentially a contributor who was only eclectically consulted on things. To compound the problem, the network worried about ratings and insisted on changes in the third year, which accelerated the show's death spiral. It's really a pity. What they accomplished in the longer, serious stories, especially in the show's second season, is old television at its most extraordinary.

[@millenniumman75]

It's only fitting that Serling himself noted that his second favorite work (the first being Requiem for a Heavyweight in 1962) was the January 1971 NG episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" (beating out ALL Twilight Zone episodes!). That was THE episode that got him an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Single Episode" for 1971......and it was before Jack Laird got his hands on the show. I still can't watch that episode without crying. Very well written episode! By January 1972, the show was a mess. The only saving grace toward the end was the September 1972 episode with Joan Crawford (which was her last ever television/movie appearance).

[@83thechaz]

Rod didn’t have strong confidence in his ability to write prose. Maybe hes right, maybe he’s wrong...it’s all relative, but his story version of Riley’s Bar was especially effective as well :)

[@83thechaz]

Indeed. Some of the best 2nd season stories (in my opinion) include Class of ‘99, A Death In The Family, A Fear of Spiders, The Caterpillar, Pickman’s Model, You Can’t Get Help Like That Anymore, Sins of the Fathers, A Question of Fear etc. And the versions of Rod’s-both original stories and teleplays were infinitely better before Jack tampered with them.

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

We used to imitate the way he talked and his mannerisms endlessly at school

[@dalexkom]

the music in these episodes really set the tone

[@tonytafoya6217]

Tee Vee will never die!

[@rjdestefano2417]

Guy was a complete genius and growing up in the 80’s, I lived to watch the Twilight Zone late at night, (after the honeymooners and odd couple). He was a master at irony. But is it me? I was fixated on the chipped tooth of his when he was talking ? If I’m going to have a monologue in front of millions each week, I’d get it fixed !

[@chronicstitcher7933]

I was about 5, and I'd watch this with my aunt and get so scared!!!

[@firecriss1392]

"Good Evening and welcome to this display of the unnatural, unbelievable, and simply terrifying. This little gem here might represent something that some of us may have experienced ourselves. It depicts an open, dusty, desert road, and an old, rusting eighteen wheeler from a bygone era, driven by what could only be called a sociopath--or is it being driven by anyone at all? A question we will attempt to answer to the best of our ability in an offering we simply call "Duel". And in case you were wondering--this is the Night Gallery".

[@tedkier3264]

Lone Survivor and The Doll were together on a half hour show? what pair of powerhouse episodes! and Rod was ashamed of series? I don't believe it! musta had contract dispute! it's some of scariest stuff ever committed on film. hands down!

[@starcloud4959]

Ted Kier -wow thanks.

[@tedkier3264]

star cloud? you wrote er helped write the teleplays? wow! i'm in presence of great master!

[@jennifersman7990]

I think Serling wasn’t necessarily ashamed of Night Gallery but he felt typecast and I don’t think he had as much control over this like he’d had on Twilight Zone. He wanted to do more challenging programs but audiences and networks just wanted more TZ-type shows from him

[@m.oriley8260]

The great Geraldine Page starred in two episodes. Her best portraying an alcoholic divorcee with a ghost in her attic.

[@mrksts1]

That show creeped me out when I was a little kid.

[@20th_century_specter]

If I had a time machine like Bill & Ted, I would grab Rod Serling, George Orwell, Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare to let them see what has become of the future; then let them brainstorm to figure out a way to avert this calamity while writing one hell of a great story.

[@TrueReality219]

🚪🛋🎚🎛🎙🗣I'M REMINISCING BACK WHEN TELEVISION SHOWS 📺HAD A REALISTIC MEANING AND WAS MADE SO BEAUTIFULLY.KL KEEP THIS FASCINATING ENTERTAINING ERA ALIVE. 🌃

[@tropicvibe]

I remember 1st time I saw the show I was a little kid and had no idea what it was about. Had something to do with a furry little brooch pinned to a girl's jacket lapel and as she was walking home late at night the brooch kept growing and she tried to get it off and it was biting her. It finally got so big it devoured her and I was traumatized but couldn't stop watching the show...

[@esty-arnold5124]

"A Feast Of Blood" starring Sondra Locke

[@tropicvibe]

@@esty-arnold5124 Thanks! I've been trying to find the name of the episode. I wouldn't have even remembered Sondra Locke was in it.

[@esty-arnold5124]

@@tropicvibe ✌️

[@gfernandez9285]

I remember NOT watching this lol, when I we like 9 thru 15 years old I would always watch The Twilight Zone at 11pm until 12 and then the opening to Night Gallery would come on and switch lol. The Twilight Zone was more mind blowing storylines where Night Gallery was straight up horror driven. I had forgotten Rod Serling made Night Gallery

[@bruce369able]

You missed out!

[@baraxor]

Rod also wrote some of the better Night Gallery episodes.

[@luzvargas9033]

I'm still scare at 55...

[@stevelambert3808]

I peeked in at Mom watching this . It really SCARED ME ! 😱😵

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

'The Last Laurel' with Jack Cassidy was really bizarre

[@mikec.3129]

This opening theme, and the characters that were portrayed along with the music, used to Scare The Heck out of Me, when I was a 7 to 10-year-old little boy. My older brother would Blast this music from the TV on purpose, just to scare The Crap out of Me! I still don't like listening to this music late at night if I'm by myself at home.

[@georgeanderson7499]

It would be so cool if they came out with a reboot of Night Gallery, like Jordan Peete did with Twilight Zone.

[@suzukikawasaki5165]

That opening sound track made me haul ass to my parents room...lol

[@danielhetue6968]

Night Gallery > Twilight Zone. Long live Rod Serling’s legacy and his courage.

[@alucard624]

Surprised this hasn't been rebooted ad nauseum like The Twilight Zone has.

[@mcvaycastaway3523]

I'm pretty sure that, when they come for me, and wing me to my reward, this intro music will be playing.

[@danielvick3527]

When I first saw the episode called "The Doll," I was so scared as a kid that I think that my hair stood on end! LOL

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

This and the unsolved mysteries theme were the scariest I have ever heard.