As much as I hate to admit it, this is the last chapter of Night Gallery.

If you thought it’d be an incredibly poignant story from Rod Serling, you’d be remiss.

No, the last thing of the show is…a Jack Laird directed and written black out comedy tale.

“Room for One Less” takes place in a crowded elevator that stops to let in several more people in. A monster (Lee Jay Lambert) points to a sign that says “Occupancy by more than 10 passengers prohibited by law” to the elevator operator (James Metropole), which used to be a thing up until at least the 90s, as my art school had them. The monster has a sophisticated accent when he says, “Quite.” He then blows up the elevator operator.

The end.

Ah, it’s been a journey watching all of the Night Gallery episodes and writing about them for you. Did you have a favorite episode? Did any of these bring back memories for you? This gave me a sense of joy as there is so much good here, as well as some sadness, as by the middle of the second season you can start to see that Serling wasn’t getting to tell the stories that he wanted to. Commerce always conscripts creativity but my memories before now were so rose-lensed that I forgot that even a show that I consider great has moments of not being all so good. That said, the great is enough to forget all of the one minute silly sketches that Jack Laird threw in which prove that sometimes, something extra can ruin the recipe.