Night Gallery
How to Cure the Common Vampire
TV Flash files “How to Cure the Common Vampire” as a desk essential hour — Night Gallery (1969–1973) on NBC, season 3, episode 17, aired 1973-05-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E17: listed hour 98 of 98 in the Night Gallery guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 1973-05-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Hatred unto Death” (S03E16). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “How to Cure the Common Vampire”. How to Cure the Common Vampire closes the NBC run: catalog tail of Serling's darker decade, gallery lights off.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.
Viewer FAQ
Where does How to Cure the Common Vampire sit in the Night Gallery guide?
S03E17 is listed hour 98 of 98 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 17.
When did Night Gallery S03E17 air?
How to Cure the Common Vampire aired 1973-05-27 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…