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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Night Gallery: Season Two
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List Price: $59.98
Our Price: $39.99
Your Save: $ 19.99 ( 33% )
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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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Editorial Reviews:
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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...and worth it!!
Comment: 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 of which are by H.P. Lovecraft and the eerie "The Boy Who Could Predict Earthquakes" with it's completely unforgettable twist ending. Also, there are commentaries on episodes,by, most notably Guillermo Del Toro. And for the art fan, an entire gallery of Tom Wright's classic paintings seen on the shows is an extra. The episodes seem in fine shape with a good picture, save for two which are basically re-constructed and missing segments because the whereabouts of the masters is unknown. Some is better than none, I guess in those cases. Still, all in all, the set is a vast improvement from the first season, but perhaps the wait was worth it to re-launch it.
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Summary: Season 2: Over 60 Stories!!!
Comment: 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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Summary: Can't wait for season 3
Comment: 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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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....
Customer Rating:
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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