NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (July 2022): Kino have transferred Rod Serling's Night Gallery - Season Two to Blu-ray. They released Season One last November (2021) and we reviewed it HERE. It is cited as being "from 2K scans of the interpositives". Aside from a rare speckles or two these look exceptionally  strong in 1080P. Like the first season, colors are vibrant, contrast well-layered, plenty of depth and surprising detail in close-ups. The TV programs of this era were shot of film and always tend to look pristine in this higher resolution. There are 5 dual-layered Blu-ray discs with 5 episodes on each disc with 3 on the last disc (23 in all) with supplements. Each episode is around 50-minutes and usually consists of two or three segments - often the third (that started in this Second Season) is very short described as an 'original comic blackout sketches' of 2-3 minutes - that Serling did not endorse. Although I believe they separated the two episodes they are show at the end of the episode here. They have middling bitrates but look very strong in these HD presentations.  

NOTE: We have added 140 more large resolution Blu-ray captures (in lossless PNG format) for DVDBeaver Patrons HERE

Kino use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. Night Gallery has an eerie, electronic-based, main theme by Gil Melle (The Victim, The Andromeda Strain, The Deliberate Stranger, Frankenstein: The True Story, 7 episodes of Kolchak the Night Stalker, Colossus: The Forbin Project, You'll Like My Mother, The Sentinel and The Organization) plus score for episodes by Oliver Nelson, who did mostly TV work - The Six Million Dollar Man, Columbo etc. plus the Burt Reynolds's film Skullduggery - Jazz pianist John Lewis (Odd Against Tomorrow) - Paul Glass (Bunny Lake is Missing, Lady in a Cage, Overlord) - Eddie Sauter (Mickey One, some may note his music on Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66') - Argentinean Lalo Schifrin (famous as the guy behind the Mission: Impossible theme as well as impressive scores for Man on a Swing, Joe Kidd, Rollercoaster, Charley Varrick, The Nude Bomb, Day of the Animals, Hit!, The Manitou, Tango and many other films) - all adding atmosphere to the episodes. The quality is clean and crisp with audible dialogue via the lossless transfers. Kino offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-rays.

Kudos to Kino for adding a mass of commentaries (many new); by the likes of Gary Gerani (co-author of Fantastic Television: A Pictorial History of Sci-Fi, the Unusual and Fantastic From Captain Video to the Star Trek Phenomenon and Beyond...), Jim Benson and Scott Skelton (authors of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour - Television and Popular Culture and Rod Serling's Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness), Tim Lucas (author of Spirits of the Dead), Amanda Reyes (author of Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999.) Plus there are commentaries by Guillermo del Toro, David J. Schow, Dr. Reba Wissner, Craig Beam, Scott Skelton and others. Some of these appeared on the 2017 Universal DVD set of the complete series, although originally on the earlier individual season DVDs. Also included is Lost Tales From Season Two with Die Now, Pay Later, Room For One Less, Witches' Feast and Little Girl Lost with optional commentaries by Benson and Skelton as found on the DVD set. Included is the 1/2 hour Revisiting the Gallery: A Look Back – featurette with actors Lindsay Wagner, Pat Boone, Joseph Campanella, Laurie Prange, James Metropole; Directors John Badham, Jeannot Szwarc, William Hale; Composer Gil Mellé; Make-Up Artist Leonard Engelman; Artist Tom Wright; and Night Gallery authors/historians Jim Benson and Scott Skelton plus the, new, hour-long "The Syndication Conundrum Part 2" (Part one was on the Season One Blu-ray set). It's a look at the show's troubled second life in reruns with film historian Craig Beam. There is the short "Art Gallery: The Paintings – featurette with artist Tom Wright, - 19 TV Spots (Newly Mastered in HD), NBC TV Promos from the DVD release, and that 41-second DVD Easter Egg.

Rod Serling's Night Gallery - Season Two is a Who's Who of 70's TV and a handful of aged big screen stars like Ray Milland, Edward G. Robinson, Laurence Harvey, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Cloris Leachman, Broderick Crawford, Gale Sondergaard, and how about Barbara Steele!

Plus this extensive list; Leslie Nielsen, Fritz Weaver, Patrick O'Neal, Kim Stanley, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Leif Erickson, Pat Boone, James Farentino, Michele Lee, E.G. Marshall, Desi Arnaz Jr., Imogene Coca, Brandon De Wilde, Michael Constantine, Clint Howard, Joseph Campanella, George Maharis, Yaphet Kotto, Tony Roberts, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Arthur O'Connell, Ross Martin, Barbara Rush, Elizabeth Hartman, Sondra Locke, Joanna Pettet, Bob Crane, Patty Duke, Virginia Mayo, David Wayne, Cesar Romero, John Carradine, Carl Reiner, Lindsay Wagner, Glenn Corbett, Susan Strasberg, Barbara Babcock, Joel Grey, Howard Duff, John Saxon, Jack Albertson, Geraldine Page, Cornel Wilde, Bobby Darin, James Gregory, Marjorie Bennett, Bill Bixby, Carol Lynley, Donna Douglas, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Kiley, Julie Adams, Jill Ireland, Ed Nelson, Geraldine Page, Richard Thomas and Alan Napier.

I really enjoyed "The Phantom Farmhouse" with David McCallum falling for a hot werewolf (Linda Marsh as a blonde), always pleasant to hear Orson Welles (narrating "Silent Snow, Secret Snow") and "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore" with Cloris Leachman and Broderick Crawford torturing their robot maid played by large breasted Lana Wood ('Plenty O'Toole' in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, and, btw, Natalie Wood's sister.) This original anthology television series was often described as "thought-provoking dark fantasy." It has vampires, werewolves, a "Man-Thing"-like monster, witchcraft, grave robbers, doom prophecy, survival attempt of one night in a haunted mansion, Nazis, Dracula, Lovecraftian gods taking revenge, a fake fortune-telling racket, Gothic love story, a unique Pawnshop antique mirror, a witch doctor, a melancholy jukebox, a possessed hand and a painful earwig. Did I say Barbara Steele? What more could you ask for? Kino's Blu-ray package is totally stacked - full of value. Certainly recommended!

Gary Tooze