The Caterpillar/Little Girl Lost

There's a reason that this is an urban legend. I highly doubt that a hungry caterpillar can do the below:

If you poke something sharp into your ear, you could easily wreck your middle ear and make yourself deaf on that side. But to reach your brain, you would need enormous force; most likely you wouldn't have the strength to do it yourself. That's because your middle and inner ear are embedded in a very tough part of the skull, the temporal bone.

So I gave this review as an "8 " because it includes "Little GirlLost". My understanding is that NG originally aired in an hour format (at least some of its run). This would include two or even three episodes. Now NG runs on cable in half hour episodes.

So "The Caterpillar" is as good as NG can be. Probably better, really heh. Much of the series is plagued by absurd ideas , low budget sets and poor effects . This one avoids those issues- Partly as it's not a supernatural story- which is fairly rare in NG.

It's story is simple but (especially for NG) clear and well delivered. The cast of five are all perfect in their parts.

The "Little Girl Lost" story I tried to watch twice. Something to do with a scientist who controls the know-how to a terrible weapon. His daughter dies accidentally and his obsession with her is used by a government agent To try to get him to complete his work (I think heh).

I can't say I understood it but something about the fear of such weapons existing because That means they can be used -I think.

Seemed to be the most wordy NG episode ever heh. I can't give it more than a "5" itself and that's probably way too generous heh.

But "The Caterpillar " is a keeper. Really much better than the vast number of NG episodes in my opinion.

"The Caterpillar" deals with a man who is so bored and lonely and so taken with his friend's beautiful wife that he is willing to kill the man. He hires a sociopathic kindling salesman, giving him 100 pounds to kill the man so he can get his hands on the wife. Unfortunately for him, it all backfires. Apparently, there is a mythology around the earwig. An insect that goes into people's ears and then chews away at their brains. This is what the native boy was asked to do to the older man. Instead the earwig finds its way into the head of the conspirator. He goes through hell. Most of my friends read this story as children (or knew of it), and so I knew exactly how it would play out. This is a classic horror technique of relieving the tension for a moment and then finishing with both barrels. A truly terrifying story.

The second involves William Windom, who has pretty much left the real world after the death of his little girl. He has been doing work in nuclear fission and his mind is still tuned to his work. The powers that be send a man to humor him. You see, he actually thinks the little girl is still there. He pats her head and brushes her hair, so to speak. The agent sent to keep the process going feels sad for the guy, but plays along, trying to keep him calm. There is a scene in a restaurant where a man wants the extra chair that the girl is supposedly sitting in. Let's face it. The whole thing is really weak and empty headed.

Excellent NG episode! This review is for the segment Little Girl Lost, which aired with the classic The Caterpillar. When I read the synopsis, I thought it sounded like the plot of one of the first TV Movies Of The Week (it was the first TV movie for 20th Century Fox), Daughter Of The Mind. Does anyone remember that and does it sound similar to you?

This "Night Gallery" episode from season 2 episode 22 "The Caterpillar/Little Girl Lost" are segments that twist they may not be the most interesting actually they seem a little strange and odd. "The Caterpillar" involves an old fashioned tale of love and lust that does not go as planned. Set in an exotic location in a well to do house the tale twist as it's a little mind blowing. It stars Laurence Harvey as Steven Macy a guy who's got his eyes on a man's attractive trophy wife it's just lust. A plan for a magical earwig placement backfires and doesn't go as planned changing things for good in a grim way. "Little Girl Lost" is one tale that involves the military and a man and his daughter as it plays tricks and games on the mind. Okay episodes with strange stories that twist.