

Night Gallery
1969–1973 · NBC · 30 min · 3 seasons
S03E17 · How to Cure the Common Vampire
Mon, 28 May, 12:00 pm
In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.
About
Rod Serling returns to anthology television as the host of Night Gallery, a three-season show where each story revolves around a mysterious and ominous painting hanging in an empty gallery. Mr. Serling provides the opening and closing narration to these stories, typically tales of horror and the supernatural. During the first season, the hour-long series features several shorter stories, some of which are comedic blackout sketches. The show was subsequently cut down to a half-hour, and in syndication was mixed with episodes of the TV series The Sixth Sense.
Episodes
- E01
The Return of the Sorcerer
Mon, 25 Sept· 30 minSorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.
- E02
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Mon, 2 Oct· 30 minPhotographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new reclusive model that no man can resist.
- E03
Rare Objects
Mon, 23 Oct· 30 minA gangster under constant threat of death seeks escape but falls into the wrong hands.
- E04
Spectre in Tap-Shoes
Mon, 30 Oct· 30 minAfter her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.
- E05
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan
Mon, 13 Nov· 30 minBumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet.
- E06
Smile, Please
Mon, 13 Nov· 3 minA photographer meets a vampire.
- E07
The Other Way Out
Mon, 20 Nov· 30 minA businessman receives a blackmail note and ends up at a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere... with a vengeful grandfather out to avenge a murder.
- E08
Fright Night
Mon, 11 Dec· 30 minAn author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to open a mysterious trunk there that someone will come for. The house starts driving them insane.
- E09
Finnegan's Flight
Mon, 18 Dec· 30 minA prison lifer seeking an escape--any escape--proves highly susceptible to hypnotism and wins the ultimate freedom.
- E10
She'll Be Company for You
Mon, 25 Dec· 30 minAfter years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.
- E11
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Mon, 8 Jan· 30 minNewly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is taken to a mysterious elite hotel, where he's to fight an old boxing champ that no one has ever beaten.
- E12
Something in the Woodwork
Mon, 15 Jan· 30 minSpurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objection.
- E13
Death on a Barge
Mon, 5 Mar· 30 minA lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a coffin. She and a local boy fall in love.
- E14
Whisper
Mon, 14 May· 30 minIrene is a natural medium often unwillingly possessed by lost souls, which starts to worry her young husband Charlie Evans, since she's having more and more trouble controlling them, especially when it comes to one grieving mother.
- E15
The Doll of Death
Mon, 21 May· 30 minDuring the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway bride Sheila Trent's ex lover Raphael, after she elopes with Raphael.
- E16
Hatred unto Death
Mon, 28 May· 30 minOn the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson.
- E17
How to Cure the Common Vampire
Mon, 28 May· 30 minIn this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.
Cast

Rod Serling
Host

