History Series / NightGallery

* AcademyOfEvil: ''Class of 99'', and ''The Academy'', where it's implied the students ''never'' graduate.
* AdamWesting: Phyllis Diller, known for her piercing voice and laugh, plays the titular Pamela in "Pamela's Voice". That is, she's a dead woman who is haunting the husband (John Astin) that killed her because, among all the things he hated about her, her voice was the number one thing he couldn't stand. [[spoiler: It turns out he's dead too, and his punishment in Hell is her heaven, where she can just keep talking, and talking, and talking, and he can't do a thing about it.]]
** Adam West actually appeared in ''With Apologies To Mr. Hyde''.
* AffablyEvil: "The Housekeeper".

* AssholeVictim: Comes up '''a lot'''.
** For example: [[spoiler: The Fultons of "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore".]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Several episodes, such as ''Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay''. The ending implies the witch was indeed successful in her BodySwap.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: ''Make em Laugh'' and ''The Escape Route''.
* BodySwap: ''The Housekeeper'' and ''Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay''.

* BrattyHalfPint: "Brenda". The only true friend she makes is a shambling monster that gets trapped in a pit.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Subverted and parodied in "A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank". A vampire breaks into a woman's room and goes down to suck her blood. At the last second, she wakes up and says "I gave at the office". He apologizes, makes a note in his book, and flies off.
* CannotCrossRunningWater: The vampire in "Death on a Barge".
* CantGetAwayWithNothing: ''The Cemetery''.
* CausticCritic: ''A Fear of Spiders'', although the critic in question is a subversion. He's not shown writing pointlessly cruel gourmet reviews, but he's pointedly cruel to a female suitor and the building supervisor.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: ''Clean Kills And Other Trophies''. It ends with hunter learning what it's like to be the victim.
* CreepyDoll: ''The Doll''.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: ''Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay''.
* DownerEnding: ''The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes'' ends with the young seer predicting [[spoiler: that the sun will soon go nova and explode, engulfing the earth.]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler: "Little Girl Lost"]]
* EldritchAbomination: In ''The Funeral'' and ''Professor Peabody's Last Lecture''.

* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: ''The Messiah On Mott Street''.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Possible fate looming in ''A Question of Fear''. Leads to BetterToDieThanBeKilled.
** [[spoiler: Also the case for ''The Caterpillar'', as it's revealed that the earwig in question was ''female'', and probably laid eggs.]]
** Also shows up in many other episodes.
* FlyingDutchman: The castaway from ''Lone Survivor'' calls himself this.
* FrightDeathtrap: In both ''A Question Of Fear'' and ''The Other Way Out''.
* TheFunInFuneral: In ''The Funeral'', a vampire pays to host his own funeral.
* {{Gaslighting}}: ''The Cemetery''.
* GiantSpider: ''A Fear Of Spiders''.

* HenpeckedHusband: ''House - With Ghost'' and ''Stop Killing Me''.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: ''The Ghost of Sorworth Place''.
* HereWeGoAgain: The end of ''The Housekeeper'' and ''The Ghost of Sorworth Place''.
* HollywoodVoodoo: ''Doll of Death''.

* KidFromTheFuture: ''Tell David'', but this is a subversion. The woman's son David has already been born, but she somehow finds herself travelling into the future where he is an adult.
* LaserGuidedKarma: "The Miracle at Camafeo", and "The Caterpillar" among some.
* LastOfHisKind: ''There Aren't Any More MacBanes''.
* LivingDollCollector: ''A Death In The Family''.

* MetaFiction: ''Midnight Never Ends''.
* MercyKill: ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Merciful]]''. [[spoiler: But not how you think.]]
* MermaidProblem: "Lindemann's Catch"

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: ''The Phantom Farmhouse''.
* RichBitch: ''Eyes''.

* ShoutOut: Lovecraft is repeatedly mentioned if his works aren't the basis of one of the stories. ''Miss Lovecraft Sent Me'', is one of the shorter stories, and in ''Professor Peabody's Last Lecture'', the eponymous Professor is reading off the names of numerous Lovecraftian deities, and one his students has the last name "Lovecraft".
* SnakeOilSalesman: ''Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator''.
* TemptingFate: ''Professor Peabody's Last Lecture''.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: ''Tell David''.

* WhamLine: While more of a Wham ''Noise'', "The Merciful" has '''[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext the doorbell]]]]'''.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: ''You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore''.
* WomanScorned: ''There's Something In The Woodwork''.
* YourMindMakesItReal: ''Finnegan's Flight''.

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* NothingIsScarier: "The Cemetary." We never actually see the old man rise from his grave, but just seeing it happening on the painting and imagining it happening for real makes it all the more frightening. [[spoiler: The same occurs for his nephew at the end.]]

* NothingIsScarier: "The Cemetary." We never actually see the old man rise from his grave, but just seeing it happening on the painting and imagining it happening makes it all the more frightening. [[spoiler: The same occurs for his nephew at the end.]]

** Also shows up in many other episodes, most famously "The Caterpillar".

* IAmNotShazam: The so-called caterpillar in "The Caterpillar" is an earwig.

* WhamLine: While more of a Wham ''Noise'', "The Merciful" has '''[[spoiler: the doorbell]]'''.

* AssholeVictim

* InformedAttractiveness: "The Different Ones". A hideously deformed young man is part of an exchange program with a student from another planet who is part of the program for the same reason. [[spoiler: Only the student from the other planet looks like a normal human, and the natives of his planet all look like the student from Earth.]]

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An (initially) hour-long {{horror}} and SpeculativeFiction [[GenreAnthology anthology]] series, hosted by RodSerling, which ran on {{NBC}} for three seasons (1970-1973). Each episode includes multiple segments tied together by the FramingDevice of a gallery of paintings inspired by the featured stories. The stories include both originals (many written by Serling) and adaptations of works by the likes of RichardMatheson, Basil Copper, and Creator/HPLovecraft. (The segments "Cool Air" and "Pickman's Model" are the first and still most famous [[LovecraftOnFilm Lovecraft adaptations]] made for television.)

An (initially) hour-long {{horror}} and SpeculativeFiction [[GenreAnthology anthology]] series, hosted by RodSerling, which ran on {{NBC}} for three seasons (1970-1973). Each episode includes multiple segments tied together by the FramingDevice of a gallery of paintings inspired by the featured stories. The stories include both originals (many written by Serling) and adaptations of works by the likes of RichardMatheson, Basil Copper, and HPLovecraft. (The segments "Cool Air" and "Pickman's Model" are the first and still most famous [[LovecraftOnFilm Lovecraft adaptations]] made for television.)

Unusually for the format[[hottip:*:and, oddly, bearing a certain resemblance to SketchComedy]], the individual segments are not of a set length. They range from one-minute vignettes to long stories that take up most of the episode's run time (and everything in between); the number of segments per episode varies accordingly.

* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The pilot featured a fugitive officer trying to hide in a painting in Latin America somewhere.

The third season saw the show subjected to some ExecutiveMeddling (and possibly ScrewedByTheNetwork), with the episode length reduced to a half hour and the timeslot moved from Wednesday to Sunday. It was cancelled midway through the season.

* AdamWesting: Phyllis Diller, known for her piercing voice and laugh, plays the titular Pamela in "Pamela's Voice". That is, she's a dead woman who is haunting the husband that killed her because, among all the things he hated about her, her voice was the number one thing he couldn't stand. [[spoiler: It turns out he's dead too, and his punishment in Hell is her heaven, where she can just keep talking, and talking, and talking, and he can't do a thing about it.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: ''Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay''. The ending implies the witch was indeed successful in her BodySwap.]]

An (initially) hour-long {{horror}} and {{speculative fiction}} [[GenreAnthology anthology]] series, hosted by RodSerling, which ran on {{NBC}} for three seasons (1970-1973). Each episode includes multiple segments tied together by the FramingDevice of a gallery of paintings inspired by the featured stories. The stories include both originals (many written by Serling) and adaptations of works by the likes of RichardMatheson, Basil Copper, and HPLovecraft. (The segments "Cool Air" and "Pickman's Model" are the first and still most famous [[LovecraftOnFilm Lovecraft adaptations]] made for television.)

* PilotMovie: One segment of which, "Eyes", was directed by a young StevenSpielberg.

* ShoutOut: Lovecraft is repeatedly mentioned if his works aren't the basis of one of the stories. ''Miss Lovecraft Sent Me'', is one of the shorter stories, and in ''Professor Peabody's Last Lecture'', the eponymous Professor is reading off the names of numerous Lovecraftian deities, and one his students has the last name "Lovecraft".

* CreepyDoll: "The Doll".

* FateWorseThanDeath: Possible fate looming in "A Question of Fear". Leads to BetterToDieThanBeKilled.

* FrightDeathtrap

* CreepyDoll: "The Doll"

* DeadPersonImpersonation: "Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay."

* SnakeOilSalesman: "Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator"

* NonhumanLoverReveal: the series was in love with TheReveal in general.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "Make em Laugh" and "The Escape Route"
* BoyMeetsGhoul: several

* LivingDollCollector: "A Death In The Family"