Night Gallery The Lifeboat

[bradley higgins]

In one episode called the Lifeboat. The Lusitania picks up a lifeboat from the Titanic in 1915. There is one man in it and he keeps warning the crew the ship will be torpedoed but they don't believe him. He mentions dressing up like a woman to get off Titanic and because of it being doomed to drift from doomed ship to doomed ship. The Lusitania sinks and he is adrift in another lifeboat only to be picked up decades later by the Andrea Doria.

 

[Robert H. Gibbons]

Actually, the episode was called "Lone Survivor".

 

[Robert H. Gibbons]

Here's a little bit more about Night Gallery's "Lone Survivor" episode:

Night Gallery: "Lone Survivor"
Season 1, Episode 5.2
First aired: January 13, 1971
by Jason Warren
Starring John Colicos, Torin Thatcher, Hedley Mattingly, Brendan Dillon, Charles Davis, William Beckley, Terence Pushman, Edward Colmans, Pierre Jalbert and Carl Milletaire. Written and Hosted by Rod Serling. Directed by Gene Levitt.

Several crew members aboard a passing luxury liner unexpectedly spot a lifeboat with one lone survivor (played by John Colicos, who gives a tremendous performance as the tortured and tormented soul). As they come closer, they finally identify a ship's name on the lifeboat and are quite shocked when they see the name "Titanic", all of three years after she sank!

Spoiler: The ship that picks up the lifeboat with the "lone survivor" of the Titanic (dressed as a woman!) is the Lusitania. After she is torpedoed, another ship sights the lifeboat and the "lone survivor" is picked up by still another ship--the Andrea Doria!

 

[Ann Whitworth Unemori]

I remember that one; pretty weird. In retrospect I'm a bit surprised the survivor isn't "rediscovered" until the 1950s; what about the Morro Castle fire? Or isn't that enough well known?
Nit-pick dept: the last ship on Night Gallery looks more like the Stockholm than the Andrea Doria. Oh well!

 

[Ann Whitworth Unemori]

Actually, "Lone Survivor" goes well with "Lindemanns' Catch," about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. What happens to her is rather interesting....

 

[Roy Kristiansen]

>>I'm a bit surprised the survivor isn't "rediscovered" until the 1950s; what about the Morro Castle fire? Or isn't that enough well known?

They had just an hour to get through three episodes, plus commercials. My guess is that "selective condensation" had a lot to do with which disasters they chose to include.

You can read more on Night Gallery here:

Rod Serling's Night Gallery: A Shadowy Museum of the Outre

And on Lone Survivor here:

nightgallery.net/index.html?title.html&0

Roy

 

[Arlene Forconi]

Being a Rod Serling fan of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery it's always a treat when my interests converge. I remember watching "Lone Survivor" when it first ran in '71 and never forgot it. Now I own in on DVD.

And speaking of the Andrea Doria/Stockholm PBS just ran a documentary on the collision here last week. From 2005 I think.

Leen

 

[Robert H. Gibbons]

For those who like to watch shows on the internet, "Night Gallery's" Lone Survivor episode is available to watch at www.hulu.com.

Also, the Time Tunnel "Rendesvous With Yesterday" episode can be seen on www.youtube.com. The trailer for "Last Voyage" filmed on the Ile de France, can be seen on TCM's website. Google "TCM trailers"

 

[Lucy Steigerwald]

Oooh, cool! I love "The Twilight Zone" (and have such a crush on Rod Serling) but I've never seen "Night Gallery." I'm going to have to watch this episode.

 

[Eric Longo]

Hi All,

let's not forget Passage on the Lady Anne. I like that one - May 9, 1963. Good cast and story IMHO.

Best,
Eric