History Recap / NightGalleryS2E5

-> Teleplay by: Gene R. Kearney
-> Directed by: Gene R. Kearney

** Rather than a horror story featuring a monster or supernatural element, this segment is a straightforward adaptation of Conrad Aiken's short story of the same name, which Rod Serling himself lampshades. The supernatural element could be seen with how Paul's fantasies gradually overtake his waking life, and how the snow itself seems to talk to him when he's alone.

-> '''Rod Serling:''' From this picture, one wouldn't necessarily conjure up a story of love, but that's precisely what it tells about it. The emotion as old as man, but the object of the emotion, this is not quite as familiar. Its title: '''Phantom Farmhouse''', offering number one, in the Night Gallery.

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An adaptation of Conrad Aiken's short story of the same name, narrated by Creator/OrsonWelles.

-> Written by: Halsted Welles

Based on a short story of the same name by Creator/SeaburyQuinn.

-> Written by: Gene R. Kearney

An adaptation of Conrad Aiken's short story of the same name, with narration by Creator/OrsonWelles.

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Paul Hasleman (Radames Pera) is a young boy who loves one thing above all else: snow. He awakens one morning to the sound of snow-muffled footsteps, but notices a sunny day outside his window. Paul's parents soon notice that he's acting distant and withdrawn, while Paul visualizes scenes of heavy snow in the outside world, which soon disappear when he reaches his house. As Paul refrains from explaining his snowy visions to his parents, they call the family doctor to deduce the cause of Paul's withdrawing from reality, which has gotten to the point where he imagines the snow itself has started talking to him.

* DownerEnding: Paul tells his worried mother that he hates her and throws her out of his room, leaving her and his father heartbroken while he's free to completely lose himself in his fantasies, or otherwise succumbing to insanity.

** Rather than a horror-filled tale featuring a monster or supernatural element, this segment is a straightforward adaptation of Conrad Aiken's short story of the same name, which Rod Serling himself lampshades. The supernatural element could be seen with how Paul's fantasies gradually overtake his waking life, and how the snow itself seems to talk to him when he's alone.

-> Teleplay by: Halsted Welles
-> Story by: Creator/SeaburyQuinn

-> Teleplay by: Gene R. Kearney

-> Story by: Seabury Quinn
-> Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

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-> '''Rod Serling:''' Good evening. We offer you an evening sojourned amongst the wild, the wooly, the unbelievable, sometimes ''make''-believable, as our first painting suggests. From this picture, one wouldn't necessarily conjure up a story of love, but that's precisely what it tells about it. The emotion as old as man, but the object of the emotion, this is not quite as familiar. Its title: '''Phantom Farmhouse''', offering number one, in the Night Gallery.

-> '''Rod Serling:''' For our last offering in the Night Gallery, a painting that brings to life a literary classic. From the pen of Conrad Aiken; fragile, lovely, haunted. Its title: '''Silent Snow, Secret Snow'''.

-> '''Rod Serling:''' Good evening. We offer you an evening sojourned amongst the wild, the woolly, the unbelievable, sometimes ''make''-believable, as our first painting suggests. From this picture, one wouldn't necessarily conjure up a story of love, but that's precisely what it tells about it. The emotion as old as man, but the object of the emotion, this is not quite as familiar. Its title: '''Phantom Farmhouse''', offering number one, in the Night Gallery.

* KarmaHoudini: Gideon has the pentagrams marking him for death on his palms, but Joel kills the Squires' through the prayer ritual, leaving him to recieve no punishment for sending his fellow patients there.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While Joel claims that Gideon's experiences with Mildred were drug-induced hallucinations at first, he realizes that the patient was right all along, as he meets Mildred for himself and learns that her parents killed Gideon. Gideon even foreshadows that Joel will fall in love with Mildred like he claims everyone else has/will, which does indeed come true. We later learn that Gideon is affiliated with the werewolves and has been providing them with fresh victims.

-> '''Rod Serling:''' Good evening. We offer you an evening sojourned amongst the wild, the woolly, the unbelievable, sometimes ''make''-believable, as our first painting suggests. From this picture, one wouldn't necessarily conjur up a story of love, but that's precisely what it tells about it. The emotion as old as man, but the object of the emotion, this is not quite as familiar. Its title: '''Phantom Farmhouse''', offering number one, in the Night Gallery.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves have red nails in human form, and their pointer finger is longer than their middle finger. In their bestial form, they resemble ordinary wolves (or wild dogs), but some of their human mind stays with them after they transform. Gideon notes that they mark their chosen victims (anyone who's seen their house) with pentagrams on their hands, which he shows to Joel before he's killed. They are also an apparent form of revenant, as Joel finds three graves likely belonging to Mildred and her parents, who were said by Pierre to have died in a fire. His reading a book of prayers in front of the graves apparently causes the Squires to die permanently, as Joel ends the episode by discovering no sign of Mildred or her house.

* SilverHasMysticalPowers: As werewolves have a noted vulnerability to silver, Pierre gives Joel a silver cross as protection when he prepares to venture to the Squires' home once again.