From the original Serling post...
Things keep Kevin Baconing to Twilight Zone...
Indeed!!
Night Gallery (1970-1973)
"Night Gallery" connects to my weird-fiction rabbit hole!
Yep, Serling never did Lovecraft on Zone, but he did on "Night Gallery".
"Night Gallery" did "Pickman's Model" and "Cool Air" as straight ahead adaptations; and then for a goofy quickie humor skit, they did "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" with Carl Reiner, where Reiner teaches a class on the Lovecraft mythos, and accidentally turns himself into an algae monster with one eyeball sticking out.
I looked up clips and photos, and that jogged my memory, and I remember the whole episodes now!
They were really good!
I wasn't on this Lovecraft quest then, so the mythos connections flew over my head at the time, but my memory filed them away anyway.
I just had to activate the right braincells, and there it all was.
I was Googling for "Lovecraft based humor" to find more things like Garth Merenghi, and the Reiner skit popped up, and then it traced back to the serious adaptations.
Another one where I stumbled backwards into treasure.
I brought up "Night Gallery" in my memorial for Ma, and I kinda hemmed and hawed about it, and it's my least favorite part of that post. But!! Now I know why! I was subconsciously trying to remember this stuff, but it got stuck!
Thank you, Ma! Thank you for "Night Gallery"! 😁❤
I'll retro-link this post into that one in the line "I'm glad she turned me on to it".
Indeed I am. Indeed I am.
I regret my brain's hard-drive retrieval was so chuggy and slowpoke, but better late than never.
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