Night Gallery
Die Now, Pay Later
TV Flash files “Die Now, Pay Later” as hour 80 of 98 in the TV Flash guide — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 2, episode 63.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E63: listed hour 80 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, hour 63 of 64 in season 2. No airdate on file for this listed hour. The listed hour before it is “Satisfaction Guaranteed” (S02E62). Next is “Room for One Less” (S02E64).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Die Now, Pay Later sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S02E63 is listed hour 80 of 98 — hour 63 of 64 in season 2, season 2 episode 63.
How is Night Gallery S02E63 listed?
S02E63 is season 2 episode 63 in the TV Flash guide. No airdate is on file.
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…