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Night Gallery: Season Two
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Diana Chesney, Floy Dean, Patty Duke, Virginia Mayo, James McCallion
Directed By: Allen Baron, Allen Reisner, Barry Shear, Boris Sagal, Daniel Haller
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195009003
Format: Box set
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-11-11
Running Time: 1120
Studio: Universal Studios
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Prepare for the unexpected as Season Two of Night Gallery comes to DVD! This 5-disc DVD set contains 61 stories, created and hosted by the master of mystery: The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling. With guest performances by Hollywood legends that reads like a roster of Who’s Who in Hollywood, you’ll be sure to see sights to amaze! Featuring audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and a gallery presentation of the paintings from the series, this collector’s set is the classic anthology of timeless, spine-tingling entertainment you don’t dare to miss!
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Summary: Finally, Universal gets it right.......
Comment: Night Gallery fans will rejoice with the second season release of this popular anthology series.
Thanks to Universal's collaboration with "Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour" authors Jim Benson and Scott Skelton provide several commentaries on a number of key episodes. One wishes they were contracted for the first season's collection of DVDs were released. Their keen insight into the various installments are most welcome as they explain not just the obvious, but many of the interesting backstories to the individual episodes.
One interesting observation that the authors made was that the reason why Night Gallery attracted such outstanding acting talent was primarily based on the strength of the scripts, the short shooting schedule (a week at the most; sometimes less than 3 days--Stuart Whitman recalled learning his lines for "Lindemann's Catch" the night before!) and the limited theatrical-feel to the sets and the surroundings during filming. Whatever the reason, prepare yourself for eighteen hours of pleasurable television viewing, not seen in a similar format and theme until "Roald Dahl's "Tales of the Unexpected" making it's debut in 1978.
Also included is an interview with director Guillermo Del Toro, whose recent work included the popular theatrical film, "Hellboy 2." NBC promos are also round out the set as well as a insightful short hosted by Tom Wright, the artist whose paintings introduced by Serling kicked-off each story.
The second season, usually considered the strongest of the three, clearly indicated the ever-present stamp of producer Jack Laird who, at this time, just about wrested all creative control of the series from Serling. Because of the latter's contract with NBC and Universal, Serling virtually signed away any opportunity for story approval or creative input into the anthology series. Many fans lament...."What would become of Night Gallery if Rod had been given total reign over the series as he had on Twilight Zone?"
Alas, it could also be argued that because of Laird's supervison, the second season is nothing less than an outstanding showcase of some of the finest writers and short story adaptations available--Alvin Sapinsley's superb "Pickman's Model" and Halsted Welles' disturbing "Sins of the Fathers" to name a few. Nonetheless, several of the outstanding installments of this set were written or adapted by Serling himself and they include Emmy-nominated "The Messiah of Mott Street" and the chilling "The Caterpillar" starring Lawrence Harvey and Joanna Pettet.
Those annoying vignettes are present as well and back with a vengeance with Jack Laird himself, replete with hunchback, playing Igor to Adam West's Dr.Jekyll in the "With Apologies to Mr. Hyde." It's nice to know our DVD players can allow us to fast forward such codswallop like the fetid "The Witches Feast" and get right to the main installments. In all, a delight for fans to savor. I cannot wait for Season Three....
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Summary: Night Gallery Season 2
Comment: I just got the DVds just recently and I run a couple of espisodes. It's not uncut as they says. In The Boy who predicted Eartquakes they edited out the earthquakes in the subway. In Dead Weight they edited out the bank robbery in the beginning. I don't know what other episodes have been edited out. I just run those two so far. I remember seeing that bank robbery in a Los Angeles tv station down south a couple of years ago.Why did it state it was uncut?
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Summary: Best season of TV horror ever aired.
Comment: Though its reputation has gone up and down over the years, Rod Serling's colorful anthology series certainly hit a winning streak unequaled in horror on TV or the big screen with this jaw-dropping second season. From unforgettable masterpieces like "Cool Air," "The Caterpillar" and "Green Fingers" to lesser known but equally stylish gems like "Camera Obscura," "A Feast of Blood" and "The Sins of the Fathers," this program uses color, art direction, music and good old-fashioned storytelling with uncanny skill. Ignore the brief, silly comic blackout that pop up now and then; this is pure gold and easily worth the reasonable price tag. Thankfully Universal has corrected their shoddy presentation of Season One (which featured some of the worst, most typo-laden packaging ever seen from a major studio) by decking this one out with a respectable heaping of extras and a much better box presentation. The transfers look great, too, and appear sharper and more vivid than previously seen on the Columbia House tapes and infrequent TV airings on SciFi and Chiller. Let's hope it doesn't take nearly so long to get Season 3.
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Summary: Better than the Twightlight Zone
Comment: Greatest season ever of any Sci-Fi television show. Amazing lineup
of stars.
Best Episodes:
"The Different Ones" Dana Andrews
"A Death in the Family" Desi Arnez Jr.
"The Caterpillar" Laurence Harvey
"Deliveries in the Rear" Cornell Wilde
"Feast of Blood" Sondra Locke
Customer Rating:
Summary: Doesn't Get Any Better
Comment: With all the reviews out there, I'll make mine short and sweet.
NIGHT GALLERY ran three seasons. The first two were hour-long episodes and are the best of the series. The third season lacks in both story quality and length, shortened to a half-hour. Universal released the first season on DVD overpriced. The second season, however, is much much better in quality of price and a bonus disc means the studio is actually doing something about their DVDs since they usually release cheap discs and little if anything on extra bonus features. I assume they turned to the authors of the NIGHT GALLERY book regarding the release of this DVD set simply because of the extras. If they did this for other TV shows such as LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS they'd have a better product and hence, better sales.
If you want companion pieces to go along with the DVD release, I suggest ROD SERLING'S NIGHT GALLERY: AN AFTER-HOURS TOUR by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson offers 390 plus pages of behind-the-scenes critical analysis and facts with exclusive interviews with cast and crew.
If you love The Twilight Zone and other works by Serling, then I suggest
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: UNLOCKING THE DOOR TO A TELEVISION CLASSIC by Martin Grams is 800 plus pages and includes "everything" about the classic series. The details about Serling's writing career on radio, early television and Twilight Zone is well researched and highly detailed. Exclusive interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes trivia will floor you.
Both books available on Amazon.com
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