WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.039 Dark Destinations may be end times Night's creature. Why would a few more casualties 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:14.320 struggle me because of their blood? Will join yours a radio drama anthology. 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.679 You are wrong how you figure Every mark on Longo is hunting you down, 4 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.960 Not you, your partner, he said, I didn't have a ray gun. 5 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:28.239 Full cast performances set in the haunted corners of the globe. Darkness is 6 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:38.159 coming for you. That's the fear that taunts me. Dark Destinations by fatherm 7 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:54.079 Alone at Weirdingwaymedia dot com weird Way Media. Now, I'll check this one 8 00:00:54.079 --> 00:01:11.000 if you will offer you the summer food of the scientist Fay. But there 9 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:23.079 are apparently some things that cannot be accomplished, and they are in lives and 10 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:30.760 tail man hangs, the picture Business. The Night Gallery. Welcome back, 11 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.640 ourt lovers to Midnight Viewing The Night Gallery podcast, where we discuss Night Gallery, 12 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.920 Rod Serling's follow up to the Twilight Zone. I'm Father Malone and with 13 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.879 me here in the gallery are the projection boots, Mike White, don't touch 14 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:47.439 that trunk, and the culture cast Chris Dashire. I'm in an airplane. 15 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.400 Sorry, I couldn't even take this shit seriously, So why should they tonight, 16 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.120 we're talking about two episodes from season three. Those are episodes seven and 17 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.319 eight, Fright Night and Fishin's Flight. Their taste, of course, must 18 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:07.120 have necessity run toward the slightly odd, or at the very least the bizarre. 19 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:12.199 That's what we deal with here, the bizarre, the expected unexpected, 20 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.240 if you will, as in the case of this painting here it's called Fright 21 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.960 Night, featuring that beloved star of stage and screen. The name eludes me, 22 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.960 but there is you'll note a familiarity about it. Actually, this fiery 23 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.199 operation is the sort of thing that appears in strange houses, because that's what 24 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:34.439 this painting depicts, a very strange house, and you're welcome to share it 25 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:38.960 with us, because this is the night Gallery Fright Night. This is season 26 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.240 three, episode seven. It aired on December tenth, nineteen seventy two. 27 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.719 Written by Robert Malcolm Young from a story by Kurt Van Elting not a short 28 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.360 story. Directed by Jeff Corey. This one stars Stuart Whitman, Barbara Anderson, 29 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.840 Ellen Corby, and Alan Napier. This is his third appearance, so 30 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.639 I'm giving him a little bit of spotlight. Allan Napier born in nineteen O 31 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:04.520 three in Worcestershire, England. He was the cousin of Neville Chamberlain. He 32 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.039 married Charles Dickens's great granddaughter. He was best friends with Michael Goff, who 33 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:13.400 eventually took over the role of Alfred Penniworth. I have a little quote of 34 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.680 his I'd like to read. He said, I had never read comics before 35 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.560 I was hired. My agent rang up and said, I think you were 36 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.360 going to play on Batman. I said, what is Batman? And he 37 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.520 said, don't you read the comics? I said no, never. He 38 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.840 said, I think you're going to be Batman's butler. And I said, 39 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.479 I don't know if I want to be Batman's butler. It was the most 40 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.520 ridiculous thing I had ever heard of. And then he said it may be 41 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.080 worth over one hundred thousand dollars, and I said, I am Batman's butler. 42 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.280 There are way too many of the name, but the one I'm going 43 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:46.400 to mention is he was in a pirate farce from called Double Crossbones from nineteen 44 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:53.080 fifty one with Donald O'Connor, where Alan Napier plays Captain Kid. That's a 45 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.639 fun movie. You should check him out in that if your only vision of 46 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:00.759 him is in Gotham City. You won't go wrong with Alan. This was 47 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.280 a weird episode for me because it has a lot of Hitchcock connections because he 48 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:10.159 was a Marnie and then that cantankerous old woman she was in Vertigo. She 49 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.400 ran the hotel that what's her name was staying at. I can't remember which 50 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.120 incarnation she was at that point, but yeah, so I was like, 51 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.560 oh, this is kind of a neat thing here. And that's all thanks 52 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.879 to Jeff Corey putting all the best actors where you can get them. This 53 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.040 one is about a writer who inherits a house from his eccentric uncle, whose 54 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.279 trunk must be kept in a must be kept unopened in the attic. What 55 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.199 do you think of this one, Mike? You're given simple instructions. Trunk's 56 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.959 got to stay here, So what do you do? You move the trunk. 57 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.800 I don't get it. I don't get it. And yeah, I 58 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.439 it's kind of the same thing from the last episode that we discussed on our 59 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:51.920 previous discussion. It just goes on for a long time. It really felt 60 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.040 like it was taking forever, and I think had they been able to shorten 61 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.040 it down, it would have just been a lot more impactful the way that 62 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:06.240 their personalities are changing. I think the best moment of the entire thing is 63 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:11.480 that fight that they have where there's the boiling when does that have milk or 64 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.240 something on the stove? The white liquid? That was really nice. I 65 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.319 was very happy with that scene, but it took a long time to get 66 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.600 there. I think to Mike's point, one hundred percent, it goes on. 67 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.720 But I feel like this has been our critique at this point every single 68 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.680 one of these episodes since season three has started. This is going on too 69 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.839 long. Yeah, it is because all of these stories needed like a second 70 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:39.040 or third pass, because they all feel a little long in the tooth, 71 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.800 like they just, oh, we're going to see this thing not once, 72 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.560 not twice, but three times, Like I don't need to see it three 73 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.800 times, maybe twice, And then sometimes they don't even show you that one 74 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.720 time, like in the two episodes ago with the we can come up now, 75 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.319 missus Millican, they showed us one. So the show has this weird 76 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.399 thing where sometimes it doesn't make use of the time enough, but now it 77 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:03.120 seems to be they're just they've given twenty five minutes and they're just, oh 78 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.879 god, twenty five minutes to tell the story that maybe would only take twelve 79 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.439 and a half. This is another one. Yeah, don't move the fucking 80 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.120 trunk. Okay, don't move the fucking trunk. It's in the attic. 81 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.240 Don't fucking move it. The story's over, it's I don't know. This 82 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.199 is one of those stories where again the contrivances that are required to get the 83 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.439 story going feel really contrived. And hey, dude, if you want a 84 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.279 nice quiet place to work, don't work in the attic. You've got that 85 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:38.120 nice place where you're gonna lock up the trunk later on? Would a desk 86 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.160 out there? Fix that up? I know it's probably overridden with weeds and 87 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.199 stuff. You got this great new house, spend a little time doing some 88 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:48.199 work around the house as well. That'd probably be good. So fix that 89 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.240 up and there you go. You got your den. You can just right 90 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.160 in there all day long if you want. It'd be way cooler. Oh 91 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.680 and I'll tell you what then, I would buy the kids broke into the 92 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.519 house and use this type if his typewriter was out there. But this whole 93 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:06.240 thing of oh, must have been some kids coming by and writing this HP 94 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:13.519 lovecrafty and drivel on my machine. Oh okay, darting kids. Every horror 95 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.920 author is going to riff off Shirley Jackson at some point. Right here the 96 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.480 House played by Ellen Corby, who you mentioned. She is a direct lift 97 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.079 of Missus Dudley from Haunting of Hill House. She even has the same lines, 98 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.480 basically, no one from the village will come any closer than that o's 99 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.480 getting dark, No one, I must be getting home. It's not. 100 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.240 I'm not. Both meant to be on the property after dark. Well, 101 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:38.519 fucking god, the trope check mark check that box right off. We didn't 102 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.879 need her at all. Honestly, she doesn't give us anything other than the 103 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.920 uncle died and here's the trunk, and don't whatever that it could have been 104 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.199 a letter they read, for God's sake, it's maximizing their time, because 105 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:53.680 this is supposed to be a slow burn of an episode and it doesn't want 106 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.759 to be, and it seems to be rushing in some way. In fact, 107 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.560 the ending of it where it's a happy ending in a way and they 108 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.600 leave so it is happy, And that suggested to me that the whole thing 109 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.560 just should have been a gentler episode overall, which is not out of bounds 110 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.639 here on Night Gallery. You could take a gentle ghost story in the tradition 111 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.800 of Ray Bradberry or something like on Halloween night the uncle comes and gets the 112 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:18.759 trunk like that. That could have been fine. We didn't need all the 113 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.680 possession sort of nonsense. Although I thought that first sort of spectral encounter I 114 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.040 thought was shot really well and edited very well. When he's seeing the trunk 115 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.799 floating, although the wires were a bit much, they did everything they could 116 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.840 with the telesiny to stretch that image and solarize it seem like it isn't just 117 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.600 a trunk hanging on a couple of lines, you know what. And I 118 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.879 actually didn't mind the fake out of the trigger treaders. I actually kind of 119 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.919 liked that. I think that really works. Yeah, And in terms of, 120 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.960 like in a narrative sense, like to break up that moment, but 121 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.080 to kind of stall out the moment, because the moment does end up coming 122 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.240 that you're expecting to happen, But to give us that little fake out I 123 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.879 think was kind of we haven't really seen it a whole lot in this show. 124 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.879 And to your point, Father alone, it feels like a gentler episode 125 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:11.080 than most, I mean most of the ghost stories in this show are of 126 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.919 a piece, like all very samey at least in Night Gallery. They're all 127 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.320 like, you know, unfinished business, or the other side is coming back 128 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.600 to do something to hump you. In one of the episodes, like your 129 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.159 ghost lover is coming back, but this is like I murder your obnoxious wife. 130 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.600 Yeah, but in this it's like he just he's just like a ghost 131 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.279 and he just comes back for his trunk. Evidently what was in the trunk 132 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.639 was going to try and fuck up those that young couple, so he was 133 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:41.960 doing them a favor in doing it. But what the episode ends up doing 134 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.320 is treading in what so many couples horror movies like Amityville Horror tends to be, 135 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.720 which is it's all monetary in nature. This is a story about people 136 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.080 who can't afford their life, and they're at each other's throats about it. 137 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.440 But it's all dressed up in the in the serrements of the grave. Did 138 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.879 Zachary die recently? That's made clear right the housekeeper knew him. This isn't 139 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.840 some house he died. He didn't die in the sixteenth century or anything, 140 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.679 right, Because I can't why he would write a note resembling a passage from 141 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.720 some like Italian poet or HP Lovecraft. It was just that didn't make any 142 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.080 sense to me. Also, once, once physical violence starts with ghosts, 143 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.039 you gotta go. Yes. The answer is when your fucking glass lifts off 144 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.519 the table throws itself ten feet across the house, you leave. You get 145 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.600 the fuck out of there. Like Dane A. Barrett didn't Ghostbusters and you 146 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:37.039 don't come back. What happens if your little girl goes into a television set? 147 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.759 Though, yep, he hires Zelda Rubinstein. Baby, that's a great 148 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.000 to stay around your haunted house. It's because you gotta stay around for the 149 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.960 kid, like every other person doesn't have a reason. Okay, Stuart Whitman, 150 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:54.080 pacing on creaking floorboards is a fucking dick move. Matter what part of 151 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.879 the house you're in, including the room you're in, just stop doing. 152 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:00.759 It's terrible. He never discusses the trunk with her. He's seeing visions of 153 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.559 it all the time, not even in a God I feel like I'm losing 154 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.879 my mind. I thought I saw that she sees the trunk vibrating, doesn't 155 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.039 say anything about it. It's he's right there. You can just point, 156 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.759 they say, look at the trunk. It's moving. Also, I can't 157 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.960 trust anyone who uses Coco as a staple in their house, who's so insistent 158 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:28.519 all else we need Coco six son of a bitch? Can I and now 159 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.840 that, now that we've opened this box, can I mention Stuart Whitman and 160 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:37.919 Barbara Anderson no chemistry whatsoever at all? And you know, you know Wikipedia, 161 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:39.799 it's a tool that we use. Sorry, teachers of high school. 162 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.080 I take a little bit of Umbridge with the fact that it says a young 163 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:52.200 couple is the description of the these two. Stuart Whitman not the shining facet 164 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.799 of youngness. He looks like he could be her dad straight up. Yeah, 165 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.320 definitely. He's a more believable, craggy old sailor like we saw him 166 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.120 the last time in love with a fish, and he had more chemistry with 167 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.759 than Barbara Anderson. And that's not her fault. This episode taught me dented 168 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:15.279 pillows do not lie. You were definitely in this bed and then you left. 169 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.799 I don't remember getting up. Yeah, that was really strange, and 170 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.039 I'm like, okay, like we had this conversation in my house all the 171 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.559 time, like, oh did you sleep last night? Oh? Yeah, 172 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:35.000 no I got up. No you didn't, what did I I don't know? 173 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.519 So yeah, Like that was a weird part of this one. The 174 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.120 best part of the episode, I think we can all agree is a character 175 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:46.159 named long Hair. He wanders in to take that trunk away and remind us 176 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.519 all we're in the nineteen seventies. Hey, everybody, do you like Blueboye 177 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:56.120 magazine? We've got the guy for what is the Delivery Boys and this series? 178 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.039 Because every delivery boy has given the worst for months except Mark Hamill? 179 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.320 Remember Mark Hamill? Except for Mark Hamill. Yeah, you're right, You're 180 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.960 right. I knew there was one good one. The exception to the rule 181 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.919 is always Luke Skywalker. Did the guy who did the paintings for the show, 182 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.639 also do those masks that those kids are wearing at the end, because 183 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.399 they look sure looks like that, It sure looks like it. Yeah, 184 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.559 they those were horrifying. Yeah, those masks were real good, real real 185 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.480 good. And obviously you always talk about the paintings on the show, but 186 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.440 man, I was like, if they're not, I'm surprised. That was 187 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.320 my favorite part, Like the shock of it, the opening of the door, 188 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.320 and that the monsters just being kids was great episode. Usually that would 189 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.399 be a stunt kind of a thing, and the look of them was fantastic. 190 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.600 And I love that in the credits, so called goblins. I think 191 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.120 it's really it's for me. It's the one on the right with the kind 192 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:54.480 of the downturned eyelids that it really evokes some of those really interesting paintings that 193 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.720 Night Gallery has used to introduce the episodes. They seem Is it just me 194 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.559 or do they seem better this season? The paintings seem more effective to me. 195 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:09.639 The painting seem much more pointed this season. They and he's only having 196 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.879 to do one per episode instead of two or three, or four or five 197 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.799 in some cases. Yeah, I think they they're more demonstrative of the story 198 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.000 we're getting than his more sort of impressionistic ones from season two. I wonder 199 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.120 if that was a directive or not. In the last episode, the one 200 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.799 with Ross Martin, I really like that painting, the whole maze part of 201 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.799 that. Yeah, that's a gorgeous one. I would actually go as far 202 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.759 as to say that the painting is better than the entire episode. The painting 203 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:37.879 is so good. I wish I had a print of it on my wall, 204 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.440 because to your point, Mike, it is for what the painting is 205 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.320 evoking. The episode never gets there. But that's okay. I just wish 206 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.240 the episode was as good as the painting. The episode is fine on its 207 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.080 own. It's just long in the tooth man. I wish we could stop 208 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.639 saying that. But it feels like every one of these episodes now was just 209 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.600 I wish there was like one other thing, maybe two minutes long, just 210 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:05.080 something to break up the pace of this really long story that you're gonna tell 211 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.080 every time. I don't think this is a controversial statement, but the paintings 212 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:15.159 for Night Gallery are all better than every episode of Night Gald, even the 213 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.799 Boy who Could See the Future or whatever the hell the Boys could see earthquakes. 214 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.200 Yeah, oh okay, I think that that in particular, it's just 215 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:30.919 like evokes everything that it took the episode with actors and writers and musicians and 216 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 whatever in just one image that I'm always jealous of artists who can just go 217 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.720 here, I'm gonna tell you everything you need to know with my pen, 218 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.519 just a little skin. There you go. I don't think this is a 219 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:46.240 particularly bad segment the story's okay, and I liked the outcome, and I 220 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.080 liked even though they gave Allen Napier nothing to do but just stagger around and 221 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.440 clay looking makeup. Oh looks like a gargoyle. Yeah, he's pretty unrecognizable 222 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.000 for me. They were. They definitely had the paintbrush close and they were 223 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.399 flecking the black and white on him. It's I don't like what were they 224 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.679 going for because again, like you mentioned, he's not supposed to be that 225 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.799 dead, right, Like, I don't know what state of decomposition that's supposed 226 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:18.200 to be. Concrete night gallery. Oh okay, fair makes sense. Yeah, 227 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:23.080 moving on, I hear you have a study in penology man imprisoned by 228 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:27.480 his fellow men, caged in a barred cubicle, and left alone far too 229 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:33.480 long to contemplate both his sins and his sanity. This pinting is called Finnigan's 230 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.279 Flight. It touches upon prisons, hypnosis, and the soaring wings of imagination. 231 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.879 But as to the latter, a small winning imagination can be a double 232 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.320 edged thing. It can take you out of the humdrum realities, but it 233 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:49.080 can also fly you to a place much less pleasant. May I introduce to 234 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.440 you now, mister Finnigan in his first and last appearance in the Night Gallery 235 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.480 Finnigan's Flight. This is season three, episode eight. It aired on December 236 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.720 seventeenth, nineteen seventy. This one was written by Ron Serling and directed by 237 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.880 gene Kearney. Stars Burgess Meredith, Cameron Mitchell, Barry Sullivan, and Kenneth 238 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:11.319 Toby Jesus Christ and if this is about a short time prisoner attempting to help 239 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.119 a lifer escape by means of hypnosis, which I think of this one, 240 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:22.279 Chris. A scene with Burgess Meredith taking flight is without a doubt, the 241 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.440 best thing about this episode. It may be the best thing about this entire 242 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:32.319 show. It is fucking insane. It's just a what wild wait where it 243 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.039 goes? And then he explodes at one point. You know what. I 244 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.960 don't even have words other than this might be the first time I say I 245 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:48.079 was speechless at what this show was going for, because it's just it goes 246 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:52.079 into left field and just keep that. The offense is gone, folks. 247 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.759 They just went right through it. Yeah, I was. I mean, 248 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:59.160 I always love seeing Cameron Mitchell and anything in the last time he cut off 249 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.039 else Lancaster's fingers and she regrew from those. I was like, all right, 250 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.440 cool, yeah, let's see some more. I'm not sure exactly what 251 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.920 his motivation is other than he just likes to fuck with people, I guess, 252 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:18.640 But yeah, I loved seeing him. We're just Meredith. He's always 253 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:23.079 very close to my heart growing up with all the Rocky movies. And then 254 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.799 I don't think i've seen this. Is this the third Barry Sullivan on here? 255 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:32.759 Or am I mistaken? No? This is I believe the third episode 256 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:36.319 third apparents. Yeah, And I want to say Roger E. Moseley was 257 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:40.559 in that Headhunter episode and he plays a small part in here. Is a 258 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:45.319 prison guard or a prisoner? Sorry, can have African Americans. That's the 259 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.680 prison guards. They're the prisoners, so come on, guys. But yeah, 260 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.920 there was so yeah, so many returning faces. I the first thing 261 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.720 I wrote down was, what is Cameron Mitchell's play here? Thank you? 262 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.839 Thank you? Yes? He asks us if he's anything everyone from Catastrophe. 263 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.799 He paints Burgess Meredith this life prisoner, as if he's on the verge of 264 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:08.279 snapping and he's gonna burn the place down and kill them all, which I 265 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:15.519 don't get from Burgess Meredith at all the nuclear level mind, What the fuck 266 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.279 does that mean? Dude, it's Burgess Meredith. What the fuck could Burgess 267 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:26.920 Meredith do to anybody? Grunt and make noises's being the penguin. You didn't 268 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:33.400 get my great penguin impersonation? Come on, man, Alan Napier and out 269 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:34.960 Burgess Meredith. Guys, come on, we gotta get it. And we 270 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.319 already had Adam Weston here we got the whole set. Oh yeah, bird 271 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:44.720 will not be appearing. Why are broad serving sad sacks always irish? Might 272 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:48.160 I ask? Oh? At least they didn't sing for he's a jelly Christine, 273 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.680 But Burgess Meredith is a jolly good fellow in this episode, One might 274 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.960 say, it's yeah, I don't understand he's supposed to be what like a 275 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:03.119 genius trapped in Like is what Cameron Mitchell is saying actually going on? Or 276 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.880 is he just full of shit? Like I wasn't believing it. I thought 277 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.319 he was one hundred percent full of shit And I don't think I'm supposed to 278 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.079 think that, but I assure did. But what does it mean if he's 279 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:15.079 full of shit? Is my question? Like? What does it mean, 280 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.440 if he's not full of shit, the episode never defines that. It's just 281 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.079 kind of seems like he's just being a fucking dick. Honestly, what it 282 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:26.400 seems like is he just wants to have a prison cell to himself, exactly. 283 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.839 That's the whole thing, getting rid of his roommate. Goodbye, Bunkie. 284 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.880 I literally caused you to explode. Yes, God to help him out 285 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.759 of this prison. So I told him that his hands were made of iron 286 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.880 and he could punch his way through. How is that helping him? And 287 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.039 if he can manifest all this stuff, why warrn't his fists made out of 288 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:52.400 iron? Hey? Logic of the own episode? How much medication is burgess 289 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.440 meredith on? By the way, he broke every bone in his hands and 290 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:00.200 then he manifested his fingers blistering and hot water. Yeah, he locks his 291 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.599 fingers together. They're all broken, but not a care in the world. 292 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.279 Why is a prisoner allowed to just consult with the people in the prison like 293 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.839 I just he's like, he's not shackled, he's across the desk from from 294 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.279 camer Mitchell is just like to fucking throw this guy in the cell and just 295 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:19.359 leave him alone. Just don't listen to him. He's in prison, And 296 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.680 I'm not saying people in prison shouldn't be listened to, but in night Gallery 297 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:29.440 they shouldn't. In a thematic fucking prison where a guy can convince another man 298 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:33.799 to cause himself to explode, then this guy should be locked up and they 299 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:36.680 should do like Magneto, throw a thing on his mouth so he can't talk. 300 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.400 Yeah, it's the power. The power of suggestion is a thing that's 301 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.680 used a lot in a lot of sci fi. I mean, what the 302 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.920 fuck is the character's name in the X Files that makes all those people kill 303 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.720 themselves, you know, kill yourself, take out a gun and blow your 304 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.240 brains out, Like that's what this is. But why is he the hero 305 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.319 of the piece. It's kind of a weird angle to take here, Rod 306 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.640 Serling. The end of the episode, I agree with you, shocking and 307 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.559 fantastic the fact that Bird's Meredith actually explodes as if he would were piloting an 308 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:08.559 aircraft into the ground. But I think it should have gone further, like 309 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:15.160 either they should have cratered that entire medical wing, killing everybody. That would 310 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.039 have felt even better, only because what we get is Mitchell going back to 311 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:23.440 his cell and he looks out and sees the body being taken away, and 312 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:27.759 then it just kind of ends. And I was hoping Mitchell just started like 313 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:32.960 yelling, hey, everyone who can hear me and started hypnotizing everyone around him, 314 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.240 like something like it should have either ended with the explosion or given us 315 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.519 another sting at the end. Yeah, what does the explosion mean? Is 316 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.599 my question? Like, what does it mean in the context of the episode 317 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.079 he got Burgess Meredith to explode? Could he do that to other people? 318 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:52.599 Or was it because Burgess Meredith had some special power? And because the episode 319 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.640 never answers that, I kind of don't understand what was the point to begin 320 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:59.480 with of asking the question. Yeah, I really think that he was supposed 321 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:04.079 to have power, but I totally agree with you that that was not communicated 322 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.960 effectively. It's just like, well, I'm guessing that he's not lying, 323 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:14.400 and I guess this is a very special case and that he can't do it 324 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:18.000 to everybody because it's so weird when it's the end of the episode and they're 325 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:23.000 like, oh, hey, hypnotists, do your trick burn, I'm like, 326 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:29.160 what, why is that a bird? Yeah? And like he can 327 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:32.720 do his thing and you might explode because of it. There are some good 328 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:34.680 things in the episode. Jeff Corey directing this one. Oh no, I'm 329 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.880 sorry, Gen Kearny directing this one who he directed to the Question of Fear 330 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.839 episode, which I also thought was effectively directed. I thought he's done some 331 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.720 good work here, including just the excellent b roll of the prison looking through 332 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.279 the honeycomb of chicken wire as prisoners was moving around. There's when there was 333 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:56.880 a transition between scenes where they underlying it was a an airplane sound very early. 334 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:02.519 That was really nice. When Burgess Merita in Cameron Mitcheller talking just talking 335 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.440 about being free and flying in the sky, there's the sound of an airplane 336 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:08.759 there as well. I thought that was great. I don't know how many 337 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:15.279 pilots make the sound of the airplane as they're flying it, but that was 338 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:18.640 very humorous for me. When he started making those noises, I was like, 339 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.000 really, it's like a gag right out of airplane. I thought the 340 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.079 Zucker a Zucker folks wrote it like that's it reminded me of that scene where 341 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:30.319 they're like, you know with the oh god, who is it that shows 342 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:33.960 up and starts seeing Yeah, ethel Merman like it's I was expecting ethel Mermon 343 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.599 to show up like that is where it goes like, it's like the character 344 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.799 Ulvernacho Grande. I'll never be over Ancho Grande. I mean I was waiting 345 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:49.000 for the dude from Spaceball is there, Devin Birders to make airplane noises with 346 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:53.160 his mouth? For fuck's sake. Hey, this is the This ain't Twilight 347 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.240 Zone, folks, this is night Gallery. We have different expectations for this 348 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.000 show. Wouldn't have been cooler just to have the actual sound of an airplane 349 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.599 and then going like where is that coming? Right? Yes, yes, 350 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.640 it would have, and then we would Burgess Meredith could have just acted the 351 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.400 fact that he was burning alive and foaming at the mouth instead of having to 352 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.039 continue to make airplane noises as well. Come on, just the way that 353 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:21.079 Cameron Mitchell's he's going higher. Oh he's running out of oxygen. That's your 354 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:25.200 face blister when you're running out of oxygen. Well, I guess here, 355 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:27.720 yeah, I mean it could. I don't know you're in the nightgown. 356 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:33.720 I know that Tony didn't when he was flying his suit the first time, 357 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:37.079 he just kind of froze up and stuff. But I want to know why 358 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.839 no one in the room with Burgess Meredith died. That's what I'm at. 359 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:44.599 Big explode have marks on them. Yeah, well, Cameron Mitchell is like 360 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.200 looks like he was standing next to an explosion when it went off, and 361 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.920 yet he's just like, I'm next seeing I'm perfectly fine. Here's my new 362 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:55.559 outfit. My hair's perfectly cooffed. Once again, don't you know your hair 363 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:57.519 canna be perfectly cooffed in prison? Yeah, or you could look like Burgess 364 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:03.559 Meredith with what's either at terrible hairdo or a terrible wig. I couldn't figure 365 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.680 out which it was. But he also looks weird, like he looks overly 366 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.319 unkempt. I forget what The actor is, the one from Happy Days who 367 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:11.480 was always drunk when we would see him in the show, and he always 368 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.759 looked very sad. It's like, it's like, why why do we have 369 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.640 to go this far? It's too bad they didn't have a moment where he 370 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.119 broke his glasses. Oh boy, Yeah, that would have been too much 371 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.599 of a callback. Yeah, I guess it would have at least been something 372 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.759 of value. And again an episode where you Know what you met? We 373 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:33.680 mentioned the paintings. Right, the top half of the painting in this one 374 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.000 is a good one. The bottom half of the painting is real, real, 375 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.759 bad, real again, Like it speaks to the moments of this episode 376 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.720 that don't work, which is just it takes place into prison, but that 377 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:48.240 doesn't even factor into this. Ultimately, this could have been done anywhere these 378 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:53.200 mind over matter experiments. Ultimately more questions are asked because it's taking place in 379 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:56.799 prison, Because I have no idea why Cameron Ritch would want to do any 380 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.279 of this if his ultimate goal is not to, like we've said, just 381 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.400 have all the other inmates explode so that he can run away. He's got 382 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.119 four months left, we're told, so, like, why is he fucking 383 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.720 with anything? Just sit, do you and leave? Man. He's just 384 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:12.559 a six son of a bit who likes to watch people explode. I'd like 385 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:17.200 to just recommend quickly Burgess Meredith. Late in his life, he was in 386 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:19.599 a movie called State of Grace, Phil Juannu's film about the Irish Mob with 387 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:23.759 Gary Oldman and Sean Penn. He's in one scene as this old man being 388 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:27.599 like shaked down by Sean Penn. He's like, I'm just an old man 389 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:32.599 eating stewed tomatoes out of a can leave me alone. He's so frail and 390 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:34.759 terrified in it. It's a great performance. It's like I said, it's 391 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.920 only a couple of minutes in the movie, and the movie's not that great, 392 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.880 but it's worth saying just for that. Also, I did not recognize 393 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:47.160 Cameron Mitchell from the Green Fingers episode. It took a while for that to 394 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.759 sink, and then that was him. And then it also occurred to me 395 00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:55.640 that I mainly know him from my favorite year as that gangster Carl Rojack. 396 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.720 Wow, good call back. Great in that anyway, I just wanted to 397 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.720 shout those out to any potential viewers out there. Anything else in this one, 398 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.559 gents, We're just Meredith is good and he he is the best part 399 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.799 of this episode. But it is. It's it's funny, unintentionally funny. 400 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:17.160 It is a good laugh. If you want to see something's truly strange, 401 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:21.920 here's an episode of Night Gallery. But it is just I wanted to see 402 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.640 if we're going to go that far, I want to see him start hypnotizing 403 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:30.599 somebody else exactly. That's this is Night Gallery after all. Exactly. He 404 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.240 could be you know, Chris, I don't know if the X Files you 405 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.160 were talking about was the Cyrillium Blue one, but he could be the next 406 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:42.799 Cyrillian Blue guy. Pusher Pusher, Pusher, Pusher. Yeah, that's I 407 00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:47.039 mean, that's I think we talked about something else where. We were bringing 408 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.359 this up, like the power of suggestion, Like it's an interesting thing, 409 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.640 but it kind of reminded me of the one with who was it Joe Perry 410 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:00.759 the Twilight Zone eighty five where he's the prisoner in jail and there's the piano 411 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:06.519 that takes him two different timelines. Yeah, I mean, just again, 412 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:08.880 if you're gonna set it in prison, there's gotta be a reason it's in 413 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:14.240 prison, and there there are things, there are directions they could have gone 414 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:15.720 here, we've kind of already laid them out. The fact that they don't 415 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.960 go there is just okay. So he's in prison. Yeah, and again 416 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:25.400 reminds me of the Dead Man. You hypnote, hypnotize this guy and then 417 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:30.119 give him cancer. Now he's got cancer. Now you don't, now he 418 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:37.400 doesn't have cancer. Same idea. Yeah, all right, we're gonna play 419 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.000 our next step. Oh you want some sorry Joe Penny not Joe Perry, 420 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.799 of course, Joe Perry, the singer of Jeremy Joe and did Joe Penny 421 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.279 and Joe Perry both have a Sopranos connection because Joe Penny is in the Rules, 422 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.319 Hey everybody, and Joe Perry sings the last song on that show. 423 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:56.880 I didn't realize that he was in there. We should probably do a podcast 424 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.960 about the Sopranos one of these days. All right, we're gonna pay prett 425 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.240 you of our next episode. I'll be right back to wrap things up now. 426 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.640 This canvas here, dark hallway, door, slightly ajar, a rather 427 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.680 disquieting red room at the end of the hall, and a very large cat. 428 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.559 We suggest to you that while felines may look cute and cuddly and playfully 429 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.200 mischievous, our suggestion is that you feed them a bit of milk and get 430 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:23.839 rid of them, because cats are and always have been, Satan's familiars. 431 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.920 Our painting title is She'll be Company for You, and it's hung in this 432 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:33.839 place we call the night Gallery. This item here a commentative on what aj 433 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:38.640 Leebling referred to as the sweet science, obviously having something to do with the 434 00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:45.079 manly art of self defense boxing. But if the Marcus of Queensbury Mayhem doesn't 435 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:51.319 particularly turn you on, don't turn this off. This painting tells the story 436 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.880 infinitely more intriguing than a couple of fast boys mixing it up. It's called 437 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.519 The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes, and it tells you that tale of 438 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.119 precisely who is the real heavyweight botching champion of the world. And I think 439 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:10.440 you'll be surprised. Surprised it happens to be our stocking trade. Because this 440 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:14.759 is The Night Gallery. That's right on the next midnight viewing, we'll be 441 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.640 taking a look at season three episodes nine and ten. Those are She'll Be 442 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.000 Company for You and The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes Midnight Viewing. 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