Death on a Barge

This is a reasonably good vampire story. A young man who works in a fish market is going nowhere in his life. One night as he walks by the pier, he sees a beautiful young woman, reclining on a barge. The weird things is that she is trapped there and he can't access the barge. She can't cross water, but the little stream leading to the harbor is drying up and there is hope. She lives with her father. She can't go out during the day so he leaves her behind. The young man can't get it through his head that this woman is dangerous. One day, the woman who really loves him, follows him and sees the beautiful girl get into a box. She is obviously a vampire. The young man won't listen at first but eventually does. Still, he feels that love is the answer and that he can break the spell. Or that she is worth dying for. Things get out of hand. This is intriguing and pretty well done.

Lesley Ann Warren stars as a young woman named Hyacinth who is in fact a reluctant vampire, who lives on a barge anchored in a canal by her father. She cannot cross the running water, but since the canal is slowly be drained, will be able to cross it to be with a young man named Ron(played by Robert Pratt) who suspects the truth, but is unable to resist her alluring beauty, so it looks like her father may finally have to take action... Effective horror tale is well directed by actor Leonard Nimoy, who imbues the episode with atmospheric menace, though certain plot points are too vague, and ending too abrupt. Still, Warren is most convincing as the hard to resist vampire.

Leonard Nimoy directs an unusual love story about a woman who is a vampire -- stunningly portrayed by Leslie Ann Warren -- and the man who falls in love with her. Overall good story.

The Night Gallery has a thing for vampires, and this episode has an interesting twist on the famous legend, as this vampire named Hyacinth(Lesley Anne Warren)is basically stuck on a floating barge until the water stops flowing. A local cashier(Robert Pratt)for a fish market becomes infatuated with her, and wishes to join her, but she rejects his advances because she knows that if a vampire crosses flowing water, it'll die; he initially is unaware that she is a vampire. During the time when they speak to each other, it's supposed to be late at night, but in typical Night Gallery fashion, they film these scenes during the early morning and must think that we're stupid enough to not notice the difference, and they do this several times in other episodes too. A big problem I also had was when Ron's girlfriend Phyllis(Brooke Bundy)seems to totally accept his crush on another woman without getting angry, yet she eventually follows him and finds the woman ready to sleep in her coffin. Hyacinth's father, who's a human, has it set up that she must stay on the barge in order to survive, but she later says that she hasn't fed in a year; can a vampire live that long without blood? I thought this was still a fairly solid episode with decent performances, minus the odd points I mentioned.