1969-1973 NBC
NUT GALLERY
Spoof #5, May 1973
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Marie Severin & Herb Trimpe
Rod Serling's follow-up to Twilight Zone, where he hosted a trio of science-fiction or horror stories, introducing them in a night gallery, where each story was told through a painting.
Not only are Pat Boone, Joe Namath, and Woody Allen all still alive as of this writing, and Woody still wears the same fishing hat fifty years later.
On the cover, I'm quite sure that the top portrait is Ted Kennedy, not Pat Boone. (And Pat would be mighty displeased by the comparison, goshdarn it.)
ReplyDeletePat should be displeased by the comparison. He never murdered a lady!
ReplyDeleteSince this site occasionally mention filmed parodies of things, The Simpsons parodied Night Gallery in the "Treehouse of Horror IV" episode. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a "just the intros" video (or my Google-fu can't find it...)
Also it's a real tragedy that Marie Severin didn't have a steady "humor magazine" gig. She's totally as good as any of the Usual Gang of Idiots. She deserved better than Crazy...
Amen on Marie Severin. Everything she draws is a pleasure to read.
DeleteI took a quick look for the Simpsons episode you mentioned, and I couldn't find a good clip either. But I did find that not long after it, another animated show, Tiny Toons, did a Treehouse-of-Horror-style special that also spoofed Night Gallery's intros. The special was called Night Ghoulery, and the whole thing is up at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/wannaseesomethingcool/Tiny+Toons+Night+Ghoulery+(1995).mp4
(By Crazy, I meant Crazy the magazine. Crazy the comic book was fine-ish.)
ReplyDeleteShe must not have had time with her day job at the Bullpen. She would fit in at Cracked much more than her brother, who was better suited for war and western comics. (Though I guess his photo-realism was necessary for when they had the Fonz on the cover of every issue)
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