Citizen Kane Roundup - Rod Serling's Night Gallery

[Harvey Chartrand]

Just picked up Rod Serling’s Night Gallery on DVD and was surprised to see so many of Orson Welles’ colleagues in these well crafted supernatural/sci-fi/horror stories. Welles even narrated a 1971 episode entitled Silent Snow, Secret Snow. Here is a list of Mercury Theatre veterans or Welles co-stars who made guest appearances or otherwise contributed to Night Gallery (1969-1973).

Roddy McDowall (Macbeth) and George Macready (Follow the Boys): Night Gallery TV-movie pilot (1969)
Jeannette Nolan (Macbeth): The Housekeeper (1970)
Burgess Meredith (Prince Hal in Welles’ Five Kings; Green Grow The Lilacs, Mutiny On The Bounty, Chicken Wagon Family, State Fair episodes of The Campbell Playhouse): The Little Black Bag (1970)
Joanna Pettet (Casino Royale): The House (1970)
Agnes Moorehead (The War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons; Rebecca, I Lost My Girlish Laughter, Wickford Point, Count Of Monte Cristo, Liliom episodes of The Campbell Playhouse): Certain Shadows on the Wall (1970)
Torin Thatcher (The Black Rose): Lone Survivor (1971)
John Astin (Get to Know Your Rabbit): Pamela's Voice (1971)
E.G. Marshall (Compulsion): A Death in the Family (1971)
Jeanette Nolan: Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay (1971)
Vincent Price (The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Heartbreak House): Class of '99 (1971)
Patrick O’Neal (The Kremlin Letter): A Fear of Spiders (1971)
John Astin: Hell's Bells (1971)
Gale Sondergaard (Follow the Boys): The Dark Boy (1971)
Arthur O’Connell (Citizen Kane): The Painted Mirror (1971)
Susan Strasberg (The Other Side of the Wind): Midnight Never Ends (1971)
Alan Napier (Macbeth): House - with Ghost (1971)
Forrest Tucker (Trouble in the Glen): Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator (1971)
Joanna Pettet: Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something (1971)
Arte Johnson (Vienna): The Flip-Side of Satan (1971)
Bradford Dillman (Compulsion): Pickman's Model (1971)
Edward G. Robinson (The Stranger): The Messiah on Mott Street (1971)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (Touch of Evil): The Painted Mirror (1971)
Patrick Macnee (Great Mysteries, ep. A Time to Remember): Logoda's Heads (1971)
Cameron Mitchell (The Other Side of the Wind): Green Fingers (1972)
Harry Guardino (King of Kings): The Miracle at Camafeo (1972)
Michael Dunn (The Last Roman) and Alan Napier: The Sins of the Fathers (1972)
Stuart Whitman (Butterfly): Lindemann's Catch (1972)
Norman Lloyd (Julius Caesar): A Feast of Blood (1972)
Ian Wolfe (Tomorrow Is Forever): Deliveries in the Rear (1972)
Royal Dano (Moby Dick): I'll Never Leave You – Ever (1972)
Joanna Pettet and Laurence Harvey (The Deep, F for Fake): The Caterpillar (1972)
Vincent Price: The Return of the Sorcerer (1972)
Joanna Pettet and John Astin: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1972)
Stuart Whitman and Alan Napier: Fright Night (1972)
Burgess Meredith and Cameron Mitchell: Finnegan's Flight (1972)
Dean Stockwell (Compulsion): Whisper (1973)
Susan Strasberg: The Doll of Death (1973)