Night Gallery
The Caterpillar
TV Flash files “The Caterpillar” as a desk essential hour — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 2, episode 60, aired 1972-03-01, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E60: listed hour 77 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, hour 60 of 64 in season 2. It aired 1972-03-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore” (S02E59). Next is “Little Girl Lost” (S02E61).
Essential hour: “The Caterpillar”. The Caterpillar is the nasty-punchline landmark fans still name: color-era horror craft, hop-friendly and unkind.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A dissolute young man lusting after a plantation owner's wife comes up with a plan to infect the owner with a deadly earwig... but his plan backfires.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Caterpillar sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S02E60 is listed hour 77 of 98 — hour 60 of 64 in season 2, season 2 episode 60.
When did Night Gallery S02E60 air?
The Caterpillar aired 1972-03-01 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…