Night Gallery
Room for One Less
TV Flash files “Room for One Less” as the last listed hour of season 2 — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 2, episode 64, 3 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E64: listed hour 81 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, last listed hour of season 2. Listed runtime 3 min; no airdate on file. The listed hour before it is “Die Now, Pay Later” (S02E63). Next is “The Return of the Sorcerer” (S03E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another idea.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Room for One Less sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S02E64 is listed hour 81 of 98 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 64.
How is Night Gallery S02E64 listed?
S02E64 is season 2 episode 64 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…