The Caterpillar/Little Girl Lost

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.

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.

"The Caterpillar" is one of my all time favorite Night Gallery teleplays! Serling and company proved once again you don't need a lot of mindless action and special effects to have a good story! From a physical perspective, there is nothing more terrifying than having some creature inhabiting and crawling through your body, especially the brain! Similar things like this has happen in real life too! I once heard of people have worms crawl through their brain and even heard of one person had one in their eyeball! Frighten stuff! As for the seconds story, "The Lost Girl", I wasn't as down with it as much! I am not a big fan of the William Windom NG teleplays! I thought that the "Tim Reilly" teleplay did belong on NG, because it had no supernatural tight to it! "Lost Girl" was good, but it was rather sad seeing someone lose his sanity because of a death in the family! You know, cartoons and comedy shows poke fun at mental illness, but it's really no laughing matter as this episode shows! I still think NG was an excellent series and deserves a much higher rating than it has now!

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?

"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.