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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195009003
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61101070D
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Running Time: 1120 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/11/2008
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Submitted for your approval, the second season of Night Gallery, Rod Serling's atmospheric anthology series that more often than not was in the Zone. Each week, Serling, acting as "an undernourished Alfred Hitchcock," played the role of host and curator of "a palladium of art treasures that range from the kooky to the uncommon, from the bestial to the bizarre." Comprised of original works and short story adaptations, Night Gallery's palette had many colors: touched-by-an-angel fantasy (the holiday fable "The Messiah on Mott Street"); the macabre ("Green Fingers"); the darkly comic ("The Late Mr. Peddington"); and the haunting ("The Tune in Dan's Cafe," which spawned the surprise country hit, "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry"). Night Gallery has long resided in The Twilight Zone's shadow, but great art demands a second, closer look. At its best, Gallery featured superb writing (Serling's body snatcher gem, "Deliveries in the Rear") and great performances (Orson Welles as the narrator of "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"), but it was also a director's showcase for moods and aesthetics. A series benchmark is the terrifying, "The Caterpillar," starring Laurence Harvey as a man who gets an earful of earwig. In addition to Harvey, Gallery featured a stellar roster of actors who did not ordinarily do television, including Edward G. Robinson ("Mott Street"), Patrick O'Neal and Kim Stanley ("A Fear of Spiders"), and Geraldine Page ("Stop Killing Me" and the classic, "The Sins of the Fathers"). It also featured familiar faces in atypical roles, such as Laugh-In's verrrry interesting Arte Johnson as a womanizing radio disc jockey in "Flip Side of Satan," Pat Boone as a callous father considering a very special school for his delinquent son in "The Academy," and Rudy Vallee as a committed doctor, or at least one who should be, in "Marmalade Wine." Comic vignettes and blackouts between offerings are more miss than hit (in one, Death, riding in a crowded elevator, chivalrously removes his skull in the presence of a female rider), but they are brief and can be easily skipped. Museum goers who like audio tours to enhance their appreciation of the exhibits will appreciate episode commentaries by Jim Benson and Scott Skelton, who literally wrote the book on the series (Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, and Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro. A series retrospective and a featurette spotlighting the artist who created the Gallery paintings featured in each episode make this DVD set one that is suitable for framing. --Donald Liebenson
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The second season of Night Gallery offers 22 more terror-filled tours for those "whose tastes in art run lean towards the bizarre," as host Rod Serling described its viewership; a wealth of extras spread across the set also makes this sophomore journey into darkness a worthwhile one for series devotees and TV horror fans in general. Though Serling was the face and frequent author of Night Gallery's episodes, his creative control over the series was fading by the second season (1971-1972); frequent clashes between Serling, the network and producer Jack Laird over the tone and direction of the show left the acclaimed television scribe feeling powerless over a series that used his Twilight Zone pedigree as its calling card. And while the hit-and-miss nature of the second season is unquestionable--episodes like "The Flip Side of Satan," "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" and "Hell's Bells" are embarrassingly bad, as are Laird's short comic vignettes--but there are an equal number of terrific and memorable stories to be found in the set as well. Chief among them is the Serling-penned "The Caterpillar," a gruesome tale of revenge that stands as one of the most horrifying tales ever presented on television; Serling also provided the moving Christmas fable "The Messiah on Mott Street," which features one of Edward G. Robinson's last screen appearances, as well as "Class of '99" with Vincent Price and "The Academy," with a surprising and effective turn against type for Pat Boone. Other standouts include two H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, "Cool Air" and "Pickman's Model," and "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," which earns its chills from a combination of dreamlike visuals and narration by Orson Welles. For a show disregarded by critics and fans of Serling's early work (as well as by the man himself) the second season of Night Gallery offers more than its share of small-screen scares. Nearly all of the 22 episodes from Night Gallery's second season are contained in this five-disc set; two comic shorts, "Witches' Feast" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed," are missing or presented incomplete, respectively, though their absence has little to no impact on the set's value. Scott Skelton and Jim Benson, authors of the invaluable companion guide Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour, provide a wealth of background information on the show in audio commentaries on three episodes, while director Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) discusses the show's influence on his work in fascinating detail on three additional episodes. Revisiting The Gallery: A Look Back is a half-hour featurette that includes interviews with show contributors ranging from director John Badham and theme composer Gil Melle to actress Lindsay Wagner, while Art Gallery offers a glimpse at the show's evocative paintings with commentary by their creator, artist Tom Wright. A small battery of TV promos for the show round out the exemplary set, which should please fans who were disappointed by the lack of material in the first season presentation. --Paul Gaita
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This is a good show to add to any collection. This is as good as Twilight Zone. Can't wait for the next season to come out.
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Execellent and prompt service, will definately use again. And I was very excited to know that Season Two has been published. I think that it was the best of all the seasons.....over all.
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It took four years for Universal to release the 2nd season of NIGHT GALLERY, but the wait is worth it for some of the extras included. Season 1, released in 2004,was a bare-bones affair and according to one source, it's sales lagged and a release of season 2 was in doubt. In fact, the first set included two "bonus" 2nd season episode which left many to doubt if a season 2 set would even be released. However, here we are with Season 2-and it is considered by many to be the very best of the show's run. All episodes are restored and not in the truncated condition that many were seen in syndication in the mid to late 70's, when the show was edited to a half hour and,the Canadian Gary Collins show, THE SIXTH SENSE was for reasons of syndication, re-tooled to fit in as "Night Gallery" episodes, complete with new Rod Serling intros done after the original show was cancelled(and before his untimely death). The high points of this 2nd season are adaptations of some classic horror stories, several ... Read More
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Season 1 had only about 20 stories. Season 2 has over 60 stories! And they are not the chopped up edited versions you see on cable, these are the originals. There were 2 to 4 stories on each episode of the Night Gallery, and this is what you get here. This is the good stuff. And don't forget to get the Night Gallery book by Scott Skelton, it's huge and packed with insight on every eposide and much, much more. The book said they had enough material to go for 7 seasons, mostly short stories from horror magazines from the 1930s to the 1970s. Too bad the series was canceled shortly into the 3rd season. Nothing like it before or since.
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I've almost finished watching all 5 DVD's. The show is just as good I remembered. Only second to the original Twilight Zone.
I hope it is not another 4 years before they release the 3rd season.
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