Night Gallery S03E05&06 (You Can Come Up Now Mrs Milikan - The Other Way Out)

All right, listen up, Cave's I got your assignments riga six four three wheeler one four eight n eight oh four and only you. You need to join host HP and Father alone as they examine one of the greatest sitcoms in television history. Taxi in Night, mister Walters, a taxi podcast BANDA zero like your boxing record, Frank, mister Walters, We're in way now check this one if you will. Tonight we offer you these summer food of a scientist figure. But there are apparently some of the things that cannot be accomplished, and they're in life and tail end.

Thanks the picture, give us The Night Gallery. Welcome back, our lovers of midnight viewing the Night Gallery Podcast, where we discussed Night Gallery, Rod Serling's follow up to The Twilight Zone. I'm Father Malone and with me here in the gallery are the culture casts Chris Statue. Just a little late, not too late, though, let's play this joke out to its final conclusion. We'll be going there very soon and off and joining us is the projection boos Mike White.

I'm here to take a photograph of a vampire. Tonight. We're talking about two episodes from season three episodes five and six. Those are you can come up now, Missus Milligan, smile please, and the other way out. That's right.

I named three titles because in a rare season three treat, episode six has a black out sketch the one we just mentioned, and it's terrible. Tonight, we offer you the sommer fruit of the scientist failure. But there are apparently some things that can be accomplished, and they're in livest tale. End hangs the picture in this night gallery we are talking about season three episode five. This aired on November twelfth, nineteen seventy two.

You can come up now, Missus Milligan. This was written by Rod Serling, based on the short story The Secret of the Vault by Jay Wesley Rosenquist and directed by John Badham. It stars Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Roger Davis, don Keefer. He was Mike the janitor from the great segment of Creep Show. We've already had Fritz Weaver, We're waiting for howlbroke.

We knock the whole set of these guys, and young Michael Lerner already looking so old. This is the tale of an inventor in his absent minded wife in the trouble you encounter when you have a serum that will bring back the dead but no corpse to administer it too. What did you think of this one, Mike? Why did he killer giants? Man?

Just killed her so you can bring her back? Okay, not so he could make her so she wasn't late all the time. He didn't factor that in. No, he wasn't trying to cure her clear onset dementia that nobody is addressing. No, he decided I know what I can do.

I can kill her and bring her back to life, right on Ozzie. Pretty neat using Ozzie and Harriet in this. It's kind of stunt casting at this point, but sure, why not. I mean John Bathham directing, good job. But this goes on for a long time, and I don't know if it needs to.

I mean, it feels in the worst part is it feels very disjointed because you've got all the stuff that you're talking about with Michael Lerner and all of these people where he's like, Hey, I'm doing this alchemy experiment. Whoops, it blew up in my face. I'm like, you are the worst scientist ever. What is going on here. But yet you think you can kill your wife and bring her back, and yeah, it just it was a muddled mess to me though.

It was nice to see Ozzy and Harriet, and I realized that I really have to get my eyes checked because I thought the title of this was you can come up now, missus milk can. I would have been a better fucking title. This is milk cans, so you can come up now. Let me show my age. Ozzy and Harriet means nothing to someone of my age.

Shocking, I know, but I mean I looked it up, you know. Fine, Okay, so I understand the stunt casting aspect, like you were talking about, Mike. However, all of that aside, this is not a compelling story. The moment you understand what the gag is, it's pretty obvious what the GAG's gonna be. What the final gag is, Oh, she's a zombie and she's not there on time?

Yeah, I mean sure, but why does this have to be twenty minutes? Why did this why did this story necessitate twenty minutes? And yeah, Michael Lerner, stuff's the funniest part because getting to see that thing explode and then it'd be like come back. No, wait, don't believe I almost killed you? Is that part's funny, unintentionally funny, but I cannot believe again, I'll say it again.

I feel like a fucking broken record at this point. Stop doing blackout sketches as full length episodes, please, Rod Serling. I beg of you this. This segment actually really made me angry. The whole aspect of his wife is clearly losing her mind.

She can't remember things he's told her after moments, like a goldfish, and he doesn't treat this at all. No one who's interacting with her is that. There's a nephew who apparently drops me all the time, who's a medical lad, and he doesn't seem to have any problem with her deteriorating mental state. So I was on edge during the entirety of the episode. Didn't help that we started with Ed Sowder and his score here.

It's this jazzy tonal, like furious planning on a piano. It's come on, man, lay off, let us ease into this a little bit. There are some things I like, Mike, you mentioned it. It's badam. He's the only thing other than the stuntcasting working in its favor after the explosion.

Badam makes Ozzy's point of view hours like when Michael Lerner is dressing him down, he's dressing us down. And it was very it felt very odd, kilt and interesting. I read the short story that this was based on. I was very curious if you had what's the story with the short story? So the script, the Night Gallary script that Ronstar in the original wrote was called the Vault because it was a little closer to the original title Secret of the Vault.

That story first appeared in Weird Tales in nineteen thirty eight, and it feels like it was a paid by the word affair. It's equal parts Poor Edgar Allan Poe imitation and HP Lovecraft imitation. And it's just about a nephew who's been living with his aunt and uncle since he was a child, basically, and there is a vault in their basement that is the family crypt. A simplicher is that the word who knows? What about a Charnel house?

Is it like that? Yeah, it's one of those words that you always see written. But I don't hear too many people dropping a conversation. No Tiger Army use it in a song good for them. Uh.

So they have a family crypt and the uncle spends an nord amount of time in the vault, as they call it, and then his aunt dies and she's buried in the crypt, and now he's spending even more time in there. And while he's spending time in the vault, the nephew is investigating his study and finding all of these books on necromance. And then he sees his uncle bringing candles spirited under his cloak down into the vault, so he knows something's going on. Then he finds the uncle's diary and he confirms that the uncle is indulging in dark rituals in an effort to reanimate he including fortune and frankinsense. They make him, they make mention and he's using a fortune Frankancise, which I thought was funny.

So he goes down to investigate the vault. His aunt returns to life and he runs screaming from the building. It's a lot of like my mind reeled and abject terrorists, a lot of It's a terribly written story, but Bolly, that sounds like some lovecraft to me, baby exactly. By the way, what bearing does that have on anything to do with the episode rod Serling gave us. Oh this is a very rod Sterling episode.

That's why it's so rod Sterling. It hurts freely adapted, is what I would call it. Every experiment he's tried, it's been in failure. Okay, yeah, no, wait, okay. He's made him an inventor for no reason.

He's given him the wife and given her the dementia for no reason. He's made him a poor inventor who is everything is expensed. It ends in colossal failure. But the reanimation juice is gonna work. Was she supposed to be so out of it because she needed to?

No one would agree to this madness? Oh boy, I love I love when you get real frustrated with this show because it frustrates me so much to understand the lack of understanding that rod Serling had behind the source material, with so many of these stories that we've had him adapt. It's like, why not just do the thing? Why not do the thing? Why not do the thing?

I mean it might it might not work as well, but it's got to work better than this. Because I hate to say it, but like the second part of this episode is like a minute long and I would have rather given that like four minutes, right, five minutes or ten minutes, because at least it would be a half and half because this is just there is just like it's milk to the utter, dry to the bone, Like what are what are you getting from the initial story at this point? I mean, I wanted to see either one more failure or a success, but we don't. We just get the one failure and then she's kind of the next experiment, so it's like, well, sure it might work. I don't know, Like he's terrible in the first scene with Michael Lerner and trying to change a rock into gold by eating it up.

Yeah, And I'm like, have you never done this experiment before? Like is this brand new for you to do this? I don't know. It's so for some reason, I was just like, probably because it's so telegraphed to us. I was just like, well, of course she's going to come back, and of course she's going to come back late, so duh.

That's yeah, that's round's bitter irony for the episode. That's that's five minutes. Instead, what we get over and over and over again is oh, I'm sorry, dear, I lost track of time. Oh, oh, I'm sorry I didn't call you or do whatever. And again there's no real consequences to any of that stuff, like there should have been, like, oh, this speaker needs to be on for five minutes, and I am incapable of setting a time or having a a watch or even an hour glass here to tell me when this is up.

Instead, I'm gonna have my dingbat wife tell me when it's five minutes instead, and then it blows up. There should have been something like that, some sort of steaks. If only there was an invention that would allow one to keep track of time on their own, like something you could put on your wrist or keep in a in a pocket, maybe something an inventor he could have invented one made it out of potatoes or something. Why are you trusting your wife to bring you back at a certain time? He asked her what?

He asked her, what did you just tell me you were going to do? And she said, I don't know. He says, you're going to tie to the house. And then he says, remember, come down and get me in two hours. And then he comes upstairs after all night and says she didn't come down and get me that's on you, you dickhead.

I honestly thought the direction it was going to go was he was going to poison himself and then she was going to forget to bring it back, and it was gonna be like, oh, well, look he died, but hey she got you, dickhead like and no, it was like it was the way more bizarre way of he kills her and then the cops come and he kills himself and it was like, whoa wait, what No, there's no stakes. Now, there's who even cares anymore? We just leave the story after he kills himself because what the fuck does it even matter anymore? What does her coming back even matter anymore? Is the question?

Didn't we have a better episode that was somewhat like that where it was a guy who was supposed to be brought back but then they screwed up and they put him in the vault, and then he came back later on after he was completely decayed. The dead Man in season one was the hypnosis episode where he could turn the gun animality. Yeah, that's it's it. Yeah, I read that as well. I'm putting aside the deep similarities to the dead Man here and much better episodes a nephew the doctor character who shows up unbidden at the exact right time.

He says, yes, she's dying because of food poisoning, but we can't figure out the food poisoning antidote. What the fuck are you talking about? Man? Also, medical boy, why isn't she in the hospital where they might find this food poisoning antidote? He tells the uncle, I called the police, and he says, you should have done that, George.

He says, are you right? Take her to the hospital, you fucking lunatics. So the police show up. By the way, this is just sort of a nitpicky thing. Two detectives, no uniforms, just a couple of guys with notepads.

You just call the police and go, hey, someone's gonna die or somebody's dying, and the two two guys in Fedora show up. Oh my god, I will say that Harriet Nelson's death pallor when she does come back, looks great. She actually looked really creepy. Yeah. I do want to mention is this not the same basement from that blackout sketch from the second season where the guy is putting his wife behind the wall.

Is this not the same fucking stairwell again that Ozzie is at the bottom of in this episode. It's like it's again eerily similar. Eerily I believe it's also in the pilot episode. I think at the cemetery, the o another Ossie, it descends those same stairs. Yeah, man, what this I I guess the stunt casting is what you're here for.

But at this point in twenty twenty three, Ozzie and Harriet would mean nothing to most people, at least half of the people who would be able to watch this. So it does. But for those who did, they were seeing America's family in the most bizarre circumstance. I imagine this episode worked like Gangbusters for children of the fifties. Yeah, but is the story that they're telling interesting of an inventor who kills his wife and then kills himself but forgets that his here's the thing, here's the problem ultimately, right, this motherfucker forgets that his wife forgets to do anything on time.

So he's the real stupid shitthead, right, Like he's the stupid asshole this entire story, Like he acts like such a dick to her, but ultimately he forgets the key piece of information that she is late all the time, and so he's like, well, I guess I'm just gonna kill myself as supposed to wait like an hour or whatever it ends up being. It's clearly within the same day. He's sitting there distraught at the fire because his uncle just killed himself, and then the aunt comes down like, I don't understand how Ozzie just forgot all of a sudden that his wife didn't do things on time. Like, dude, of all the things that you're getting on her for doing, this is the one thing that you forget, Like, how are you this stupid?

Yeah? I really blame him for the bad things that happened to him. Yeah, he deserves everything that he gets. It's just a Michael right. You are a terrible scientist, sir.

It's just not a compelling story. I mean, look, and the fact that they stretch it out to twenty minutes is rod serling, folks. Yeah, when they went to a commercial break and came back, I was like, really, really your god damn right, oil boy, and mind you. It's also like what like a minute or two short turn then everything else For the most part, because there are very few and far between dual segment episodes this season, if any others. I think we're gonna get one more the last one, right, they literal last one.

I'm pretty sure, so this is one of two. Like, it's also weird, and I'm glad it's it ended a couple of minutes short so we could get something else. I really, I really am glor We needed that, Pat. See, the blackout skinches are needed more than ever of these days. They should be ending every single episode honestly, but good right, not what we're getting here.

Take your positions if you will, now the camera's ready, and smile please, that's right, smile please. By Jack Laird, starring Chesare Danova Lindsay Wagner. This is her second appearance. Yeah okay. Th Woman follows a man into a crip because he's promised her a photograph of a vampire.

He's the vampire. Great painting. The best part was having to see Rod read the thing for this and this shit. He's so not into it. Yeah, it's nothing and it was real bad.

Yeah is it more than it needed to be? At least it's here and it comes and goes with a speed that is needed for a blackout sketch. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Let's just take it for what it was, which is just brief. Yeah, a bag of chips just doesn't need to be more than a bag of chips.

Sometimes it doesn't need to be a meal. And that's you know, the black The problem is when a blackout sketch becomes the entire episode. But I again, I would go out on the lemons, say smile please. Could have used like a minute, just an establishing shot of them walking through the streets together, and that would have meant one minute lesson. You can come up now, missus Milliken, which I would have been perfectly fine with your weekness.

Other regions where we offen you paintings, hopefully proving that in some as much to be desired over somulens for a better a wake night than an unwelcome dawn, if you will, all of which is perhaps a slightly agonized invitation to keep your eyes open. Here we often you paintings like this with a graphic illustration and one of the most persistent and eternally recurring nightmares shared all too commonly by all of us, that fear of being helplessly trapped in some inescapable circumstance and with it the hope that we can discover an exit. The title of his painting is the Other Way Out, and it imposes the question is this trip desirable? Because this is the Night Gallery, We've got a returning actor here, so he qualifies as a regular.

Mister Ross Martin Martin Rosenblant. He was born in Grodik Lavasky, which is now the Ukraine, but in the nineteen twenties nineteen twenty, which is theory was born, it was still Poland. He grew up in the Lower East. He spoke seven languages. He pursued degrees in business and law before falling into acting.

He was a television fixture in the nineteen fifties. In fact, throughout his entire career. This is a television actor. If ever there was a medium made for this actor, and an actor made for the medium, it is Ross Martin. He is skilled and thoughtful and just everything that television I think needed, and he started everything Cameo Theater and lights out Goodyear Playhouse.

His connection to the Gallery are his appearances on the Twilight Zone. He was in the Four of Us Are Dying and Death Ship, and but most remember him rightly as Artemis Gordon in the Wild wild West. But I would gladly lead a Wild wild West James West, That Wild wild West, right, that one. That's when you gut with the horn ear. We keep bringing it up.

It's every time we've talked now for like three weeks, Wild wild West. I'm gonna if we're mentioning Rossmartin, I gotta I mentioned Wild wild West. Unfortunately, all roads lead to that abomination Wild wild West. Cast anybody just putting that out into the universe. You can cut this a minute by minute.

Oh wow, I'm here for it. Folks, don't listen to them. Go watch anything starring Ross Martin, just just to google his name. He's got like one hundred and thirty credits. It's insane, and he's always good in all of them.

Well, Chris and I can attest that, at least for me, He's one of my favorite adversaries for Colombo in the Suitable for Framing episode. He is terrific in that his reaction at the end of that episode stands among the great ones so far. He has a proper fucking freak out. Oh yeahlastic, I'm gonna have to check that one out. Oh you're gonna like that?

Okay, A good one. Deer, tie it all right, Ross Martin up here is here in season three, episode six, which aired on November the nineteenth, nineteen seventy two. Segment is called The Other Way Out. This was written and directed by gene Kearney from a story by Kurt van Elting. Not a short story.

This is staff writer. It's his only credit, Kurt Fanelting. He has. He has this episode and another episode in the next episode that we're going to be covering. This one stars in burl Ives and Ross Martin.

Like I said, it's his second appearance, and it is about a businessman being blackmailed into bringing ten thousand dollars to a seemingly deserted farmhouse. Which you think of this one, Chris Burr Lives, Folks, Holy moly, bur Lives. If you know anything about the things that Mike and I work on, you know that we do a little show called Rankin' on Bass where Burr Lives is nothing but a charming, charming snowman, not a cantankerous, murderous fuck like he is in this episode. It's I mean, in terms of what we get out of Burrell ives and Ross Martin together, it's fantastic. I think the stories.

I think if you can understand what they're getting at pretty quickly, you can see where this is going. The twist at the end, I think is fun. But I don't know, it's fine, it's you know what, it's It's good for this season, that's for sure. And Ross Martin and Burrow lives working off of one another pretty good. And also Ross Martin shoots a fucking dog in this episode, folks, how often does that happen in anything?

Cold blooded murders a dog? They kept thinking of was the Tales from the Crypt, the segment called Blind Alleys where it's the the blind people that are getting revenge on the guy and they set up this whole maze and there's razors all through the maze. So and they turn out the lights at one point. So I kept thinking, Oh, he's got Ross Martin amaze. Oh this is gonna be good.

There's gonna be some really good booby traps and things down. No, yeah, it wasn't that. So I love Ross Martin. I love seeing him freak out, and he definitely does a great job of freaking out in this episode. I like burl ives being contankerous.

Would you say cantankris? Fuck? I believe. Yeah, he's almost up there with his role from White Dog, where he's complaining about like R two D two if memory serves, But yeah, I really liked him as the antagonist and that whole thing too. How they don't know who the murderer of this girl was, so they are very or he's very scientific in that he's sending these blackmail notes to all of these different people, and Ross Martin's the only one that shows up, thus proving his guilt.

And I was like, ooh, that's pretty cool. So there are some great elements to this. I don't know if it they pull it off one, but there's definitely some good stuff there. And I agree. I like the little bloopist at the end.

That was nice, Okay. I liked the idea of sending letters to the eight possible suspects, right. I liked him getting that letter and him reading the newspaper and realizing that the slow panic on Ross Martin's face. I loved all of that. But did they also sneak seven other letters into whatever versions of a country club that the other suspects were?

Did they then slip an envelope into their pocket, an envelope which is redundant because it just says, look in your glove compartment where the actual letter is. They do that for eight people. I'm just curious how many cinema sins is this? You think three, four, seven? Because we don't see all only we only see Rossenbartin.

Then there are seven other people. It is a little contrived. Want do you want some more cinema sins? I got some. The map okay, Ross Martin is in San Bernardino, right, and he's given a little math and it says drive seven miles to a fork in the road and then eleven miles onto Hyspiia.

Hyspiria is thirty eight miles from Burdeu. That just doesn't make sense. I know that route. Actually, I've been to Hysperia a bunch of times. I know that the path that he's tanking is actually in parts a terrifying backwoods area.

There's a lot of forest outside that portion. That all made sense. And oh, by the way, I love day for Night. Yay. Oh you're keeping with the you liked it from?

Yeah? Okay, okay, good I got it? Yeah, okay, gotcha? I wondered why he was driving like a maniac, like it's okay. The point about thirty eight miles is that he needed to be there by eleven pm in Hisspiia thirty eight miles it's gonna take him forty five minutes tops, right, But he's driving like a fucking crazy man on these dirt roads where the tires are squealing inexplicably.

Yes, and their plan is involves the telephone pole that they've put down. Burlives has put down Burlives and Sonny, who we haven't mentioned yet, have put down this telephone pole which they need that person to crash into. Right that. There's just no question otherwise he would just drive back and go the other way to Hysperia. So a little coincidental.

I know I'm being a little hard on this one, but bugged me all these contrivances. They had a much better man trap and things like Motel Hell or the cars at eight Paris, where you know that that car is doomed for going down that road. Yeah, like the hills have eyes like that, you're going to be trapped now. I do like that bar Lives mentioned homemade apple jack important, which which suddenly I was a wash in thoughts of Dexter Riley. Remember in Computer wre Tennis Shoes Kurt Russell trilogy of Disney films that apple Jack will also come up in Colombo Chris so oh good, yes, I was.

I was actually waiting for Burl Lives to go. Would you like to play a game? Because that's how that is how this episode ended. It ended very saw esque like Saw one. I mean, oh, you've got another way out.

It's the equivalent of throwing this, you know, throwing the saw at whoever the Lee Wannell at the end of that movie. It's the same thing where it's like, oh, no, I gotta kill myself. I mean, if it's between killing yourself or starving to death in a box car, right, no, which option I'm taking? Yeah, I quickly with no, with no prejudice. It was doctor Phil and Shaquille O'Neill right down in that torture dungeon and they had to do something.

I can't remember what it was, but it cuts the wrong foot off, right, that's right? Yeah? Yeah. Remember that episode of Night Gallery called a Question of Fear with Leslie Nielsen and Fritz Weaver. Mm hmm, yeah, just kind of remind me, hey, by the way, similar is it?

Do you think? Just slightly? I mean this show tread similar ground a lot all the time, frankly, like like almost last episode. Even speaking of the the eight Suitors, did they also engraves six coffins? Just have them ready?

Which one showed up? Sonny, get down there? Okay, so I have some solutions. I wrote down solutions for Ross Martin's situation which could have easily been achieved, like go out the window to get your bullets. Don't go out the door where the dogs are, right at the window where the dogs aren't and your bullets are, and then climb back in the window.

In fucking murder Burro lives. That's solution number one. Solution number two. He's carrying this giant lamp around. It is filled with oil.

Burn the fucker down. Everything was combustible in that house. Solution three, Do not climb down a rope ladder into the cellar of the house of maniacs. What the fuck? Okay, you know I number three is the one that's normally ignored father him alone, don't you know?

You know what? I put aside the fact that our hero was this businessman who like, killed a fucking go go dancer while he was cheating on his wife, his wife who he nearly tears her hand off peeling out of the country club because he's got to get to Malibu. He's got to get to the bank. Oh my god, he's okay. I put all of that aside, and I'm following, because we're gonna follow any human being stuck in this situation.

You can put yourself in his scenario. But when he starts climbing down the ladder into the further depths of hell, I was just like, you deserve it, solution four, by the way, instead of crying, or maybe while you're crying, put that bullet into the gun and shoot one of them exactly. Maybe Buruh lives. He's a bigger target. I like.

I like the Bill Moomy esque child though, you like that he was very movement. Yeah, that kid, that kid, I mean, I mean there's something about a small child, small ginger child with a bob that is slightly creepy. It would have been better had it been Clint Howard or anybody. That kid was not very anything. He just stood there and said bye, and that look that page boy haircut was doing all the acting for him.

Yeah, yeah, what I don't know that. The the reveal of Sonny look what they did to my boy? Was my fucking reaction Jesus Christ. I mean, it's just like what it would supposed to be, like extra freaked out that it's a child, Like what what is the reveal meant to get us? Get out of us?

As the audience is the question? And I my reaction was, Okay, that's strange. I guess he looks strange, just like Burr Lives looks strange, like if you're trying to have two weirdo's on screen. The congratulations you succeeded there, but in terms of like compelling or like a wow, it's a small kid, like okay, because he, like you said, he doesn't do anything. He literally does nothing.

Yeah, So there are two possibilities there. Either Burr Lives has just been spinning yarns about Sonny here and he's just a fucking maniac putting all the guilt on the kid, or Sonny is calling all the shots, and I wanted to see that right right. I was hoping he would speak with an adult's voice or something weird like that, just to like really mess with us. Yeah, Sonny should have shown up much sooner, Yes, and should have been speaking to him the entire time. You killed my sister.

And if it was an adult's voice, and then it's a kid, ohly god, what's going on here? A bugsy Malone situation. The voice of Paul Williams comes. That'd be great, that would be better than what we got. Bye, okay, all right for that to be the reveal.

Sure, I don't know. I mean I like the reveal that, Okay, he's gonna die now and it's the bullet and he's going to kill himself. Like I liked that, sure thematically, But yeah, it's a small kid, like what does that mean? What does that mean that he's a child, like that he's a psychotic child, or it's yeah, I whatever, whatever show. I mean, you hear somebody talk about wait till Sonny gets here, and Sonny's man, and Sunday's this and Sunday's that.

I mean, you immediately, at least for me anyway, I think of the Cannibal family from Judge Stread and the one guy who's like very you know, made that of metal and stuff that fights Sylvester Sloan. I mean, that's Sonny in my mind or Michael Berryman. Absolutely the mind reeled and object terror at the possibility of Sonny, and then we're given a confusion at the end. It's it should have it's supposed to be eliciting a gasp and a shock, and instead it's just like, wait, what the kid really? Okay?

Yeah, it's it's meant to make us know real and horror, and it's just like, this is kind of dorky, doreky. Thank god brow Lives is there, man, Jesus Christ. Ultimately it's the I think the episode kind of works if you put us in all the nonsense, because Ross Martin and Burl Lives are so good. Watching Burl Lives just strumming out of tune, having a good time while dogs are barking and Ross Martin is screaming is pretty great. And I think that this is a better Ross Martin episode than the last, the one with the Witch, the thing with the Witch and his wife no camera obsciro was the last Ross Martin that's right, where you could like see different parts of this old man right right?

Oh oh yeah, I don't know. I I still think this works better. I think I like the other one better just because was that the one? Yeah that was like the guy in the city right and the undead rene being menaced. Yeah, yeah, I think I liked that one a little bit better.

But it could just be time and distance away from this episode. We're going to play a preview of the next episode. We'll be right back to wrap things up. Their taste, of course, must have necessity run towards the slightly odd, or at the very least the bizarre. That's what we deal with here, the bizarre, the expected unexpected, if you will, as in the case of this painting here it's called Fright Night, featuring that beloved star of stage and screen.

The name eludes me, but there is. You'll note a familiarity about it. Actually, this fiery apparition is the sort of thing that appears in strange houses, because that's what this painting depicts, a very strange house, and you're welcome to share it with us, because this is the night gallery I hear. You have a study in penology, man imprisoned by his fellow man, caged in a barred cubicle and left alone far too long to contemplate both his sin and his sanity. This painting is called Finnegan's Flight.

It touches upon prisons, hypnos and the soaring wings of imagination. But as to the latter a small warning. Imagination can be a double edged thing. It can take you out of the home drum realities, but it can also fly you to a place much less pleasant. May I introduce to you now, mister Finnigan in his first and last appearance in The Night Gallery.

That's right, and the next Midnight Viewing We'll be taking a look at season three episodes seven and eight Fright Night and Finnegan's Flight Midnight Viewing. The Night Gallery podcast is a proud member of the weirding Way Media group and the theme song was composed by HP Until next Time? What are you working on and where can people find it? The answry is weirding Way Media, Mike White weirding They Media, and what about you Chris weirding Way Media and soon to be Triple X offshoot weird dong Way Media. Wow.

Is that where Crankin' on ass is going to be? It is? Now? All right? Get ready love that show?

All right? Thank you all for joining us here. Edman, Oh, I'm father Malone. Go check me out a weird Gray Media as well. Thank you all for joining us here at night viewing.

The gallery is now closed.