Rod Serling’s horror anthology series “Night Gallery,” a spiritual follow-up to his hit show “The Twilight Zone,” began its life as a 1969 TV movie, consisting of three separate episodes directed by Boris Sagal, Barry Shear, and an up-and-coming novice named Steven Spielberg.
Sagal and Shear were a long-term TV veterans at the time, having worked on “The Twilight Zone” and “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” between them.
“Night Gallery” was Spielberg’s very first professional directing job.
Spielberg’s segment, called “Eyes,” starred Joan Crawford as a wealthy blind woman who pays a huge amount of money for an experimental eyeball transplant that will give her perfect vision for a mere 11 hours.
As she removes her bandages following the surgery, there is a blackout in her apartment.
Cue the disappointed “Price is Right” trombone.The “Night Gallery” TV movie was a success, and it led to a full-blown
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