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''Night Gallery'' is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, ''The Twilight Zone'', served both as the on-air host of ''Night Gallery'' and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on ''The Twilight Zone''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Night Gallery )〕 Serling viewed ''Night Gallery'' as a logical extension of ''The Twilight Zone'', but while both series shared an interest in thought-provoking dark fantasy, most of ''Zone''‘s offerings were science fiction / fantasy while ''Night Gallery'' focused on horror and the supernatural.〔http://nightgallery.net/night-gallery-episode-guide/〕 ==Format== Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Thomas J. Wright) that depicted the stories. His intro usually was, “Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collector’s item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.” ''Night Gallery'' regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself. The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford. Unlike the series, in which the paintings merely accompanied an introduction to the upcoming story, the paintings themselves actually appeared in the three segments, serving major or minor plot functions. ''Night Gallery'' was initially part of a rotating anthology or wheel series called ''Four in One''. This 1970–71 television series rotated four separate shows, including ''McCloud'', ''SFX'' (''San Francisco International Airport'') and ''The Psychiatrist''. Two of these, ''Night Gallery'' and ''McCloud'' were renewed for the 1971–72 season with ''McCloud'' becoming the most popular and longest running of the four. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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