Night Gallery
You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
TV Flash files “You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore” as hour 76 of 98 in the TV Flash guide — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 2, episode 59, aired 1972-02-23, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E59: listed hour 76 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, hour 59 of 64 in season 2. It aired 1972-02-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Sins of the Fathers” (S02E58). Next is “The Caterpillar” (S02E60).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Fultons delight in the sadistic torture of their servants, but, may have met their match when a new robot maid arrives.
Viewer FAQ
Where does You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S02E59 is listed hour 76 of 98 — hour 59 of 64 in season 2, season 2 episode 59.
When did Night Gallery S02E59 air?
You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore aired 1972-02-23 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
The 1969 pilot, including the Spielberg-directed 'Eyes,' is the lore on-ramp; then any series hour that uses a painting as the portal. Anthology, so order is optional.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Night Gallery is Rod Serling after The Twilight Zone: paintings as cold opens, color horror, nastier punchlines. The 1969 NBC pilot even carries a young Spielberg directing credit in the lore. Serling's anthology brand shifts into a darker decade — less civics lesson, more gallery-wall dread, host still selling the moral in a tailored suit.
The silhouette is a painting used as a cold open. *Gallery-wall dread, color horror, a host still selling the moral in a tailored suit.* Night Gallery is Rod Serling after The Twilight Zone: nastier punchlines, less civics lesson, anthology dread entering the 1970s doorway. The 1969 NBC pilot even carries a young Spielberg directing credit — the segment Eyes — in the lore; the series ran 1970–1973. Serling hosts tales of horror and dark fantasy introduced through eerie gallery paintings, and wrote many segments,…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…