I'd heard about it for years..
Rod Serling's The Night Gallery...
Picked up Season 2 the other day and dove right in. Wow, what a cool show...
It opens with the ever charming and somewhat creepy, Mr. Serling inviting us into the Night Gallery - a museum of pictures ...pictures that tell 1000 stories. Love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pToHSFdwk
I Love UNIVERSAL, and professionally - if I ever do make real films in the real world, I've got to work for Universal.
I suppose I'll always be obsessed with this period - My first ten years on earth are the seventies, and peripherally I was soaking up a fair bit. I only had one Kolchak night but it stayed with me 'til I found it all again recently.
Carl Kolchak is up there with Swamp Thing for this kid, but that's for another post, and God love Universal for all of the horror under their umbrella...
But back to the NG..
It's the format that gets me - it's loose ..it feels organic - that freedom that only occurred in the late '60's/early '70's - The freedom of a visionary, and of experimentation...
This is what the 1970's is for me.
Then there's the quality of it - great actors on good sets - not the same cheapy feel of so many anthology shows...
It's the work of an Auteur ...and that, again is what the 70's is all about.
Going to watch plenty then return...
...and chat details. Go watch The Night Gallery - Trust me.
Rod Serling's The Night Gallery...
Picked up Season 2 the other day and dove right in. Wow, what a cool show...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pToHSFdwk
I Love UNIVERSAL, and professionally - if I ever do make real films in the real world, I've got to work for Universal.
I suppose I'll always be obsessed with this period - My first ten years on earth are the seventies, and peripherally I was soaking up a fair bit. I only had one Kolchak night but it stayed with me 'til I found it all again recently.
But back to the NG..
It's the format that gets me - it's loose ..it feels organic - that freedom that only occurred in the late '60's/early '70's - The freedom of a visionary, and of experimentation...
This is what the 1970's is for me.
Then there's the quality of it - great actors on good sets - not the same cheapy feel of so many anthology shows...
It's the work of an Auteur ...and that, again is what the 70's is all about.
Going to watch plenty then return...
...and chat details. Go watch The Night Gallery - Trust me.
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