en tertaiqment WHITBY FREE PRESS, Thursday, May 1l, 1972, Page 3 guide Rod Serling's: Return of INight Gallery' - Summertime Thriller Rod Serling's 'Night Gallery', a series of strange tales comes to CBC t h i s summer in the 8:00 - 9:00 p. m. t ime slot on Thursdays. (The series debuts in the last week of spring, on Thursday, June 15. ) Important happenings in religious his- tory come to I ife again on Man AI ive's four-part "hot-line" series on CBC- TV, startingMonday, May 15 at 10:30 p. m. Fe atured actors will include The series, like Serling's Twi- lightZone, willdeal\with stories con- ce r n ing man' s psyche and a touch of the occul t. Se rling, who is the creator, host and narrator of the series, has for (clockwise, top) Peter Donat as Thom- a s S e c k e t, John Col icos as Martin L u t h e r , Powys Thomas (Charles 1) and Marilyn Lightstone (Mary, Queen of Scots). -MAN ALIVE- Sales 24 months or 24,000 miles Warranty Service OWASCO VOLKSWAGEN LTD. WHITBY - OSHAWA Body Shop 1425 UNDAS STREET EAST WH ITBY ONTARIO TEL. 668-9383 - 4 m an y years fel t that it w a s not im- possible for television to explore the new psychological country of the mind in t h e n am e of e n t ertainment. And sincemanhimself has been concerned w ith the unseeable, the untouchable, the occul t and the fantastic ever since h e c r o uched around a fire outside a cave, originating the first old wives' tales, Serlinghashad the farsighted- ness to delve deeply into both verbal and p r in ted literature from the past for story material in the series. As viewers might discover, Ser- 1 ing might well1 take them by the hand... a ne rvous hand. . . and lead them into the beautiful and most exciting of "oth- erroomsl"... a fanciful and stimul ating I evel well above the routine world of habit and mechanism. And who knows, someof the stories in 'Night Gallery' j us t might gen erate a nightmare or two. The program will offer at times up to four stories in some segments. The timedevotedtoeachmini-drama is the exact time necessary to unfold the in- herent material in that story. Thediversityof the material itself is best indicated by a mention of some of the teleplays: "Since Aunt Ada Came To Stay" - Simply, can the logic of a professor's m ind counteract the evil of a visiting aunt, who just happens to be a witch wanting to adopt the body of his young beautiful wife? "Green Fingers": - Alittleold lady r efuses to sell1 her cottage to a mill- ionairewhowantstobuilda factory on t h e site. He exerts desperate meas- u r es, and learns that strange things grow out of gardens planted by little old ladies. " T h e Merciful ": - An oid woman i n d i cates she is a marvelous brick- layer as shewalls in a living per- son, who is doomed with a disease. The simple ringing of a doorbell brings this tale to its shattering climax. Rod S erling's 'Night Gallery' is about things we make up in our minds, and Serling himself believes that the bizarre, thel"what if?" of man's day- dreams, hisescape mechanism may be necessary vents for the continuance of his physical existence. PULLOUT SECTION entertainment sports