Pamela's Voice/Lone Survivor/The Doll

This one was, for the most part, a good outing with three sequences.

Pamela's Voice is a great black comic vignette. Phyllis Diller and John Astin are both very good in the leads. Great twist at the end.

Lone Survivor has an interesting premise and a good performance by John Colicos. But in the end, it's just another Twilight Zone retreat.

The Doll is hauntingly brilliant!! The titular doll is so scary to look at. Great stuff.

Episode five of the series returns to three segments.

The first "Pamela's Voice" stars John Astin as a man who is finally happy to be rid of his nagging shrill wife who has recently died. However, shock she returns and unloads on him, and he learns that all is not what it seems. This one is very short and man does Phyllis Diller ham it up, its pretty much just made up of them arguing until we get to the twist which isn't bad.

The second "Lone Survivor" is about a man who is picked up by the RMS Lusitania, however in a weird sort of events he is in a life boat labeled Titanic, which would mean the man would have been on the lifeboat for over three years. Once we figure out whats going on the story becomes very interesting, and the conclusion great. John Colicos pretty much carries the episode with a wonderfully crazy performance.

The final "The Doll" is about a British Colonel who returns back to England from war in India. He discovers that his niece has obtained a very horrifying and ratty doll. We then learn in a shocking Revelation that the doll is really meant for him sent on a mission of revenge. One of the most notorious and best segments of the series, the doll is very creepy and terrifying, and best of all we get the great John Williams who I could watch in anything with his fancy British accent. The twist is also very fun.

All in all, one of the series best episodes because of "The Doll" with "Lone Survivor" being highly enjoyable as well.

'Pamela's Voice" has John Astin celebrating his wife's (Phyllis Diller) death because he couldn't stand her voice. Diller was known for her loud voice and grating laugh but the director told her to tone it down (for some reason). It drains the segment of any point.

"Lone Survivor" is an OK story about a ship finding a lifeboat with one survivor. They bring him aboard...and things get weird. Well-acted but the set is cheaply done and looks it.

"The Doll" is easily one of my favorite NG episodes. A British colonel (John Williams) comes home from India to find his young girl has a new doll. Unfortunately the doll is evil and things go horribly wrong. VERY scary and frightening episode.

"Pamela's Voice" tells the story of a man, played by John Astin, whose wife has made his life a living hell. She never stops talking and nagging. She is played by Phyllis Diller who had that squawky, raspy voice. He has pushed her down some stairs and broken her neck and feels he is now free, until he finds himself at the funeral. She is apparently a ghost and is determined to continue to talk and drive him to distraction. He thinks that once she is buried, that will be the end of it, but there is some irony in nearly every episode and things aren't that easy.

'Lone Survivor" involves a ship seeing what they think is a woman in a lifeboat, floating in the water. The boat has the logo "Titanic" on it. It is 1915 and the Titanic sank in 1912. When the figure is brought on board, it is a man, dressed as a woman. He eventually claims to have taken a lifeboat, using the cowardly act of dressing as a woman to do so. But it has been three years. In a typical Rod Serling twist, we soon realize he is on the Lusitania and he knows a torpedo is going to be hitting it and sinking it. He realizes that he may be a "Flying Dutchman" doomed to roam the seas. I won't spoil the ending, but I'd be surprised if you haven't figured it out already.

"The Doll" involves a British man, who has served in India, played by John Williams, who supposedly has sent a doll to his ward. She is a plain young woman who has had a decent life but one without frills. The doll is hideous. It has dark, sunken eyes and a maniacal grin. She can't, however, let go of it. It seems to have a hold on her. The weird thing is that the old soldier says he never sent the doll. At some expense, he buys her a beautiful doll to replace the other, but that doll is demolished, broken to pieces. The conclusion is quite complex and very interesting. It's a really good horror story.

Just watched this "Night Gallery" episode from 1971 and it was a good and clever one it was called "Pamela's Voice". It featured legendary and character actress funny lady stand up comedian Phyllis Diller as Pamela a woman who's supposed to be dead. As a matter of fact her husband sees her lying in the coffin and he's thinks that all of her chatter and nagging and not ending talking motor mouth voice has gone away! Guess again he starts to hear Pamela's voice then you see her right in front of him as Pamela makes her white and ghost like appearance in an elegant and proper way! And the talk and chatter from Pamela's mouth is back this poor man of a husband wishes he could probably put a gag in miss Pamela's mouth! You can't keep a woman down this episode was clever and done in a neat paranormal ghostly way it proves women you can't live with them or without them! Plus it was nice to see the work and appearance from the classy and legendary multi talented Phyllis Diller as she shined back in her time!