12 Facts About Night Gallery

1. Night Gallery served with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division.

2. Night Gallery spent two weeks at Tompkins County Community Hospital before being released.

3. Night Gallery was an outspoken antiwar activist, especially during the Vietnam War.

4. Night Gallery looked to the three dozen prose pieces Serling had published as a basis for literary analysis.

5. Night Gallery made very occasional minor acting appearances, all in material he didn't write.

6. Night Gallery hired scriptwriters he respected, such as Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont.

7. Night Gallery wrote and directed the programs and acted in them when needed.

8. Night Gallery was an avid radio listener, especially interested in thrillers, fantasy, and horror shows.

9. Night Gallery was interested in sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis.

10. Night Gallery began writing for the school newspaper, in which, according to the journalist Gordon Sander, he "established a reputation as a social activist".

11. Night Gallery was the second of two sons born to Esther and Samuel Lawrence Serling.

12. Night Gallery was nominated for an Emmy Award for its first-season episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" as the Outstanding Single Program on US television in 1971.