Direction: Rod Serling

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Rod Serling. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Rod Serling · Jeff Corey · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Geraldine Page · Richard Thomas · Michael Dunn · Cloris Leachman

Plot Famine runs rampant in medieval Wales, forcing terrified young Ian to feast on the sins of deceased Mr. Craighill. / The Fultons delight in the sadistic torture of servants, but,...

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The Loner (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Joseph Pevney · Alex March · Allen H. Miner

Cast Lloyd Bridges · James Whitmore · Pat Hingle · Beau Bridges

Plot TV Series (1965-1966). One season. 26 episodes. Following the Civil War, former Union soldier William Colton (Lloyd Bridges) rides through the West trying to find himself and helping out people...

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Direction Rod Serling · Ralph Senensky

Cast Harry Guardino · Richard Kiley · Julie Adams · Jill Ireland

Plot A con artist pays the price for faking a recovery from paralysis in front of a Mexican shrine. / A Scottish widow turns to an American tourist for protection from...

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Direction Rod Serling · John Meredyth Lucas · Jeff Corey · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Dana Andrews · Sandra Dee · Patrick MacNee · Monica Lewis

Plot Paul Koch agrees to a unique solution that might help his hideously ugly son find acceptance. / A woman asks a couple for directions only to realize they represent her...

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Night Gallery: She'll Be Company for You (TV)

1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Gerald Perry Finnerman

Cast Leonard Nimoy · Lorraine Gary · Kathryn Hays · Bern Hoffman

Plot After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him...

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Night Gallery: The House/Certain Shadows on the Wall (TV)

1970 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Astin · Jeff Corey

Cast Joanna Pettet · Paul Richards · Steve Franken · Louis Hayward

Plot Elaine Latimer has been dreaming of a certain house for years and finally sees it in real life. / Sickly Emma Brigham dies, but her shadow is still visible on...

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Direction Rod Serling · Theodore J. Flicker · Jerrold Freedman · William Hale

Cast Bob Crane · Jo Anne Worley · Victor Buono · Forrest Tucker

Plot Adulterer takes his wife to a house that's haunted to get rid of her. / A vampire is repelled by a good excuse. / A charlatan sells a fake healing...

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Night Gallery: The Messiah on Mott Street/The Painted Mirror (TV)

1971 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Gene R. Kearney · Don Taylor

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Yaphet Kotto · Tony Roberts · Joseph Ruskin

Plot Mikey Goldman searches for the Messiah to comfort his dying grandfather Abe. / Removing paint from an antique mirror, shop owner Frank Standish sees an alien landscape that is used...

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Night Gallery: Death on a Barge (TV)

1973 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Leonard Nimoy

Cast Rod Serling · Lesley Ann Warren · Lou Antonio · Brooke Bundy

Plot A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a...

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Night Gallery: Finnegan's Flight (TV)

1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Burgess Meredith · Cameron Mitchell · Barry Sullivan · Kenneth Tobey

Plot Charlie Finnegan is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary and longs to escape. Fellow prisoner Pete Tuttle tries to help him, with the aid of his talent for...

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Direction Rod Serling · Daryl Duke · Don Taylor

Cast William Windom · Diane Baker · John Randolph · Martine Beswick

Plot After years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral...

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Direction Rod Serling · Jeff Corey · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Sondra Locke · Harry Morgan · Stuart Whitman · Jack Aranson

Plot A fisherman catches a mermaid and wishes for her to be human. / Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive. / Impoverished Cora...

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Direction Rod Serling · Jerrold Freedman · Allen Reisner · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Joseph Wiseman · Diane Keaton · Angel Tompkins · Burgess Meredith

Plot Jacob Bauman's nurse figures in his plan to end his wife's infidelity. / A medical bag from the future may improve the fortunes of two bums. / Aghast NASA mission...

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Night Gallery: Rare Objects (TV)

1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Mickey Rooney · Raymond Massey · Fay Spain · David Fresco

Plot Marked for extinction, mobster August Kolodney visits a man who offers him safe sanctuary.

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Night Gallery: The Other Way Out (TV)

1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Ross Martin · Burl Ives · Peggy Feury · Jack Collins

Plot Executive Bradley Meredith is responsible for the unsolved murder of a go-go dancer, so the victim's vindictive grandfather Old Man Doubleday invites him to the family's dilapidated old farmhouse, which...

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Direction Rod Serling · Gerald Perry Finnerman · Jack Laird

Cast Rod Serling · Steve Forrest · Dina Merrill · Fernando Lamas

Plot On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson./In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.

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Direction Rod Serling · John Astin · Theodore J. Flicker · Jerrold Freedman

Cast Patrick O'Neal · Kim Stanley · Wally Cox · Robert Morse

Plot Misanthropic Justus Walters is tormented by a spider. / A man brings some water to his unusual son. / Braggart Roger Blacker waits out a storm with a mysterious surgeon....

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Night Gallery: A Question of Fear/The Devil Is Not Mocked (TV)

1971 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Gene R. Kearney · Jack Laird

Cast Helmut Dantine · Leslie Nielsen · Francis Lederer · Fritz Weaver

Plot A fearless colonel bets $10,000 that he can survive one night in a haunted mansion but he learns that the past can haunt you worse than any ghost can. Dracula...

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Night Gallery: Fright Night (TV)

1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Jeff Corey

Cast Stuart Whitman · Barbara Anderson · Ellen Corby · Alan Napier

Plot An author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to open a...

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Night Gallery: The Doll of Death (TV)

1973 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Badham

Cast Susan Strasberg · Alejandro Rey · Murray Matheson · Barry Atwater

Plot During the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway bride Sheila Trent's ex lover Raphael,...

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