Night Gallery
These days, the most immediate association with Rod Serling is The Twilight Zone, with good reason; the groundbreaking sci-fi series continues to influence genre fiction in all its forms today. But his later anthology series, the more specifically horror-focused Night Gallery, which kicked off with a 1969 TV movie and then ran from 1970 to 1973, is also worthy of praise—if only because while watching it you will often catch yourself feeling amazed that anything this gloriously weird aired on NBC. Darker and more fantastical in tone than The Twilight Zone, it features full-color nightmares teaching lessons to an array of protagonists; as with Zone, the casts were peppered with recognizable stars from the era, including Vincent Price, Joan Crawford, Sally Field, Diane Keaton, Ossie Davis, Leonard Nimoy, and David Carradine (with directorial credits including Steven Spielberg, who worked on Night Gallery even before making his feature debut). Thanks to a recent Blu-ray release, all three seasons of Night Gallery are now available in their complete form, with a huge array of extras if you feel like falling down that rabbit hole even further… and if you dare. – Cheryl Eddy
