Night Gallery
She'll Be Company for You
TV Flash files “She'll Be Company for You” as hour 91 of 98 in the TV Flash guide — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 3, episode 10, aired 1972-12-24, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E10: listed hour 91 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, hour 10 of 17 in season 3. It aired 1972-12-24 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Finnegan's Flight” (S03E09). Next is “The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes” (S03E11).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.
Viewer FAQ
Where does She'll Be Company for You sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S03E10 is listed hour 91 of 98 — hour 10 of 17 in season 3, season 3 episode 10.
When did Night Gallery S03E10 air?
She'll Be Company for You aired 1972-12-24 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…