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Night Gallery
S2.E23
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  • Episode aired Mar 22, 1972
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Victor Buono in Night Gallery (1969)
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An employment service has a difficult time fulfilling a customer's request for staff. This segment was sometimes used to replace the controversial "Witches' Feast" segment.An employment service has a difficult time fulfilling a customer's request for staff. This segment was sometimes used to replace the controversial "Witches' Feast" segment.An employment service has a difficult time fulfilling a customer's request for staff. This segment was sometimes used to replace the controversial "Witches' Feast" segment.

  • Director
    • Jeannot Szwarc
  • Writers
    • Jack Laird
    • Rod Serling
  • Stars
    • Victor Buono
    • Cathleen Cordell
    • Marion Charles
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    6.0/10
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    • Director
      • Jeannot Szwarc
    • Writers
      • Jack Laird
      • Rod Serling
    • Stars
      • Victor Buono
      • Cathleen Cordell
      • Marion Charles
    • 6User reviews
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    Victor Buono
    Victor Buono
    • Customer
    Cathleen Cordell
    Cathleen Cordell
    • Mrs. Mount
    Marion Charles
    • Miss Walters
    Leigh Christian
    Leigh Christian
    • Miss Ransom
    Eva Curtis
    • Miss Caraway
    • (as Eve Curtis)
    Cherie Franklin
    • Miss Blodgett
    Rod Serling
    Rod Serling
    • Self - Host
    • Director
      • Jeannot Szwarc
    • Writers
      • Jack Laird
      • Rod Serling
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    7Hitchcoc

    Victor Buono Was a Treasure

    A heavy set man goes to an agency, seemingly to hire a secretary. The agency has a "satisfaction guaranteed" policy. Beautiful and competent young women are paraded out but the man, played by Victor Buono, passes on each of them for one reason or another. Of course we are being set up for some conclusion. Ultimately, a rather fleshy, unattractive woman comes out and catches Buono's eye. He will choose her. It is the "why" that is at issue here. Most of the little Serling shorts are thrown away. This one is a tease and comes across pretty well. This is mostly because the principle figure is so good at a mugging relationship with the unseen audience.
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    Not Likely

    Odd to see this segment listed separately from the other episodes, as it was used as a replacement for the dreadful original one called 'Witches' Feast'. This really should have been included with that episode, since it is only a few minutes long, and not intended to be its own episode, but oh well, I'll review it like this anyway! Victor Buono plays a portly man who seems dissatisfied with the attractive but slim secretarial candidates, until the last one comes up, who is quite plump and unattractive, just as he wants... No guarantee is more the case here in entirely unfunny, bizarre, and pointless vignette that is just marginally better than most of its kind.

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    • Trivia
      This is the only Night Gallery (1969) segment listed for telecast on 22 March 1972. The rest of this one-hour show consisted of stories previously run on 22 September 1971, namely Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Witches' Feast (1971) with this one replacing "Witches' Feast."
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      Customer: [as a plump young woman enters and bends before a filing cabinet, her purple-polyester-clad bottom expanding before their eyes as she does so] What about that girl?

      Mrs. Mount: Miss Blodgett - oh. She's only a filing clerk.

      Customer: Doesn't matter.

      Mrs. Mount: She doesn't take shorthand.

      Customer: Makes no difference.

      Mrs. Mount: But she can't type!

      Customer: Nobody's perfect.

      Mrs. Mount: Her handwriting's illegible! She brews a perfectly indigestible cuppa coffee!

      Customer: I think the amount of this check will make further conversation unnecessary, Mrs. Mount.

      Mrs. Mount: You want her? You actually want Miss Blodgett?

      Customer: She is precisely what I have been looking for! - if you'll pardon the prepositional ending.

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 1972 (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
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      • Universal Television
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      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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