History Trivia / NightGallery

** 19-year-old Laurie Prange played an 11-year-old girl in "Brenda"
* EditedForSyndication: The stories are no longer shown on TV in hour-long segments; they are instead broadcast as half-hour slots, meaning that stories have been moved around to fit within the time constraints. Longer stories have had up to ten minutes cut from their run time and shorter ones have had extra footage added. Seen most notably in "Big Surprise", which added five extra minutes of footage to an eight minute story by inserting endless, repeating shots of a darkening sky, setting sun, and murders of crows, and for some reason edited the ending to make it look like either he imagined the whole thing or a HereWeGoAgain type scenario

** In anticipation of the show's fourth season, series artist Tom Wright [[https://nightgallery.net/the-paintings-season-3/nightmaremorning/ created]] [[https://nightgallery.net/the-paintings-season-3/unused01/ three]] [[https://nightgallery.net/the-paintings-season-3/unused02/ paintings]]. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled before they could be produced, leaving the drawings without stories.

* TheCameo: Why yes, that ''is'' {{Creator/Mel Blanc}} voicing the titular bird in "Quoth the Raven".

* ExecutiveMeddling: Rod Serling was often frustrated by his lack of creative control on the show compared to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', with the execs insisting on simple horror stories rather than any grand ideas.

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** "The Academy" has a young Larry Linville (''Series/{{MASH}}'''s Frank Burns) in a bit part.
** "Room with a View" features a young Creator/DianeKeaton in one of her first Hollywood roles.
** "The Diary" has a pre-''Series/TheBionicWoman'' Lindsay Wagner as a nurse.
** "There Aren't Any More [=MacBanes=]" features a pre-''Franchise/StarWars'' Creator/MarkHamill in a small role.
** A very young Creator/StevenSpielberg directed a couple of episodes.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were four other paintings in the gallery that were never given stories. The statues displayed around the gallery never got ''any'' stories, despite being quite creepy.

* CreatorBacklash: Rod Serling didn't mind being blamed when things went wrong on ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', but it was a different matter here because "when it was bad (he) had nothing to do with it."

** "The Academy" has a young [[{{Series/Mash}} Frank Burns]] in a bit part.

** "There Aren't Any More Mac Banes" features a pre-''Franchise/StarWars'' Creator/MarkHamill in a small role.

* RetroactiveRecognition: "The Academy" has a young [[{{Series/Mash}} Frank Burns]] in a bit part.

** "Room with a View" features a young Diane Keaton in one of her first Hollywood roles.

* TheCameo: Why yes, that is {{Creator/Mel Blanc}} voicing the titular bird in "Quoth the Raven".

** "There Aren't Any More Mac Banes" features a pre-StarWars Creator/MarkHamill in a small role.

** "Room with a View" features a young Creator/DianeKeaton in one of her first Hollywood roles.

** "Room with a View" features a young Diane Keaton in one of her first Hollywood roles.

** "There Aren't Any More Mac Banes" features a pre-StarWars Mark Hamill in a small role.

* CreatorBacklash: Rod Serling didn't mind being blamed when things went wrong on ''TheTwilightZone'', but it was a different matter here because "when it was bad (he) had nothing to do with it."
* ExecutiveMeddling: Rod Serling was often frustrated by his lack of creative control on the show compared to ''TheTwilightZone'', with the execs insisting on simple horror stories rather than any grand ideas.

** "The Diary" has a pre-TheBionicWoman Lindsay Wagner as a nurse.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were four other paintings in the gallery that were never given stories.

* HeyItsThatVoice
** Creator/OrsonWelles narrates "Silent Snow, Secret Snow".
** A young Creator/MarkHamill has a minor role as a messenger boy in "There Aren't Any More [=MacBanes=]".

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/OrsonWelles narrates "Silent Snow, Secret Snow".

* ExecutiveMeddling: Rod Serling was often frustrated by his lack of creative control on the show compared to ''TheTwilightZone'', with the execs often insisting on simple horror stories rather than any grand ideas.

* HeyItsThatVoice: OrsonWelles narrates "Silent Snow, Secret Snow".

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[TransformersTheMovie Unicron]] narrates "Silent Snow, Secret Snow".