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Season 1, Episode 1
Pilot (1)
Air Date
Wednesday March 22, 1995
Physics genius Quinn Mallory has been tooling around in his basement for months, trying to create an anti-gravity device. However, he has stumbled on to something much greater - something that appears to be a gateway! Curious as to what's on the other side, he invites his old friend Wade Wells and his physics teacher, Professor Maximillian Arturo, to venture into the gateway with him. While creating the gateway, however, Quinn uses too much power, and the vortex snags a fourth passenger: Rembrandt Brown, a former pop star who just happened to be in the neighbourhood. The vortex drops them in a world where a new Ice Age has begun, a world where they must somehow survive until Quinn's timer reaches zero.
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Season 1, Episode 1
Pilot (1)
Air Date
Wednesday March 22, 1995
Quinn returns home and opens the house's squeaky gate. In his basement, he turns on the massive generator tucked away in the corner of his basement and then begins activating the rest of his equipment. Finally, he stares at a completed calculation on his chalkboard, muttering that after three months of work, he should be able to solve the equation. He sits down to watch some more of his video. After studying the wormhole for a couple days, Quinn had begun sending inanimate objects into the void, and then created a timing device in order to return things back from where they vanish to. His past self sits down in front of the wormhole just as a basketball shoots out of the void, returning from a 20-minute journey through the vortex. Quinn begins a new video – dated September 26 – and debates what to send through the void next. He considers his cat, but can't bear the thought of the animal coming to harm. "Still, the need to know overwhelms the human instinct for self-preservation." The logical choice is to send the camera, but the vortex's electrical field shorts out the picture. There's only one choice left: Quinn himself.
On the morning of 27 September, Quinn makes a final recording. He'll be setting his timer for fifteen minutes, but he wants to make a farewell recording for his mom just in case something goes wrong. "Try not to worry. You know me – wherever I am, I'm probably having a blast." Quinn triggers his timer and examines the wormhole. From one side, it appears like a tunnel; from the other he can see a watery impression of his basement. Finally, he leaps into the tunnel and exits . . . in his basement. He's disappointed in his failure, and shuts the camera off to head to
He hops into his car and turns on Day Tripper's radio show. The DJ is talking about a scientific theory called global cooling. As Quinn reaches an intersection, a car suddenly shoots across, even though the light is green for Quinn! He swerves to avoid a collision, narrowly missing oncoming traffic. "What, are you blind?" the other driver shouts at him. "It's a green light, for crying out loud!" Quinn is stupefied by this behavior
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Night Gallery (1969)
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Rod Serling's Night Gallery (TV series 1969–1973)
Night Gallery (#1.0)
In the pilot of the television series _"Night Gallery" (1970)_ , Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first, "The Cemetery", involves a black sheep nephew (Roddy McDowall) who murders his rich uncle to inherit his fortune - both much to the detriment of the uncle's butler (Ossie Davis) - only to find that vengeance extends beyond the grave. In the second story, "Eyes", a rich, heartless woman ('Joan Crawford' ) who has been blind from birth blackmails an aspiring surgeon and a man who desperately needs money to give her a pair of eyes which will allow her to see for the first time - even though for only half a day's time - only to have the plan backfire on her in ways she never imagined. In the third story, "The Escape Route", a Nazi war criminal (Richard Kiley) is hiding from the authorities in South America...
Release Date: 8 November 1969 (USA)
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Night Gallery (1969)
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