NIGHT GALLERY: GREEN FINGERS / THE FUNERAL / THE TUNE IN DAN'S CAFE (TV)
Summary
One in this supernatural anthology series hosted by Rod Serling. This episode consists of three stories: "Green Fingers," "The Funeral," and "The Tune in Dan's Café." "Green Fingers" pits a New England widow with a preternatural penchant for gardening against an unscrupulous real estate developer who is pressuring her to sell her quaint cottage so that he can construct an industrial complex. In "The Funeral," Milton Silkline is an enterprising mortician who allows a vampire named Ludwig Asper to hold his own funeral service with his ghoulish coterie -- a witch, a wolfman, and an assortment of fanged creatures of the netherworld -- at his posh parlor. "The Tune in Dan's Café" tells the story of two troubled couples: Joe and Kelly Bellman, who stop at Dan's café en route to their home after a vacation failed to rekindle the passion that has left their marriage, and Roy Gleason and his girlfriend Red, a couple who met a tragic end at Dan's many years earlier, but whose memory is perpetuated by an eerie dirge which is persistently played by the bistro's maddening jukebox. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: January 5, 1972 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:11
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:36365
- GENRE: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1970-1973
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "Rod Serling's Night Gallery":
- Jack Laird … Producer
- Paul Glass … Music by
- Gil Melle … Theme Music by
- Rod Serling … Host
- For "Green Fingers":
- John Badham … Director
- Rod Serling … Writer
- R.C. Cook … Based on the short story by
- Oliver Nelson … Music by
- Cameron Mitchell … Cast, Michael J. Saunders
- Elsa Lanchester … Cast, Mrs. Bowen
- Michael Bell … Cast, Ernest
- Harry Hickox … Cast, the Sheriff
- Bill Quinn … Cast, the Doctor
- Larry Watson … Cast, the First Deputy
- Jeff Burton … Cast, the Second Deputy
- George Keymas … Cast, Crowley
- For "The Funeral":
- John Meredyth Lucas … Director
- Richard Matheson … Writer
- Gil Melle … Music by
- Joe Flynn … Cast, Silkline
- Werner Klemperer … Cast, Ludwig Asper
- Harvey Jason … Cast, Morrow
- Charles Macaulay … Cast, the Count
- Jack Laird … Cast, Ygor
- Laara Lacey … Cast, Jenny
- Leonidas Ossetynski … Cast, the 2nd Male Vampire
- Diana Hale … Cast, the Female Vampire
- Jerry Summers … Cast, Bruce
- For "The Tune in Dan's Café"
- David Rawlins … Director
- Gerald Sanford … Writer
- Garrie Bateson … Writer
- Shamus Frazier … Based on the short story by
- Moon Hal … Music by
- Pernell Roberts … Cast, Joe Bellman
- Susan Oliver … Cast, Kelly Bellman
- James Nusser … Cast, Dan
- James Davidson … Cast, Roy
- Brooke Mills … Cast, Red