Posted on 05/10/2024 5:47:06 AM PDT by ansel12
When we learned of RFK's brain worm, many of us remembered or tried to remember one of the best horror segments ever done on television, here it is, "The Caterpillar" is an odd name since it was about an Earwig, but it was a "Night Gallery" segment and is considered possibly the greatest horror TV episode ever.
Here is the episode on DailyMotion. https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x5zoj5
"Being bored and rather arrogant and full of himself Macy sets his eyes on the beauty that is Mrs. Warwick. He uses the wiles of the mischievous criminal Tommy Robinson (Don Knight) to help get her. Robinson knows of a local earwig which will drive a man insane and eventually to death while feasting on his brain if it wanders in his ear canal because it will be unable to work its way back out. Macy pays Robinson to have someone insert one of the earwigs into Mr. Warwick’s ear while he sleeps ....."
NightGallery - The Caterpillar
https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x5zoj5
Anybody know the minute in the show where we see this ?
I don’t have 50 minutes to waste
See what? The show is the story, there isn’t a moment to skip to for a statement or an act, or scene.
This episode has stuck with a lot of people for 50 years.
I posted this for the people who wanted to rewatch the episode and to jar their memory for the thought that I know has been bouncing around in a lot of heads every time they see something about RFK’s brain worm.
I was a kid when that episode of Night Gallery aired. Freaked me out for a few years.
If I recall this episode correctly, Mr. Warwick against all odds survived the earwig as it ate its way through the brain and came out the other ear. But there is a very horrifying plot twist at the end.
RFK has a worm??
Ohhhh yeahhhh.
Interesting how the mention of RFK Jr’s brain problems brought back quick memories of this old show.
It is well worth 50 minutes for this. Got it on DVD, entire Night Gallery series.
And you notice it was 50 minutes long, with 10 minutes of advertisements.
Today the “hour long” show would only be 40 minutes long with 20 minutes of advertisements.
It laid Eggs!?!
As was Twilight Zone. Lots of treasures there.
By contrast, I watched all Outer Limits episodes a few years ago. Not one - not one worth saving. Worthless in comparison, IMO.
I remember that episode- and the ending nearly destroyed me as a kid.
“It laid eggs”
I was thinking more like Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofMJ6cwzLM
but this Night Gallery will do.
...20 minutes of advertisements devoid of white males, unless they are the butt of a joke.
Yep. Ewww
Dead Worm Found In RFK Jr.’s Brain Already Polling Higher Than Biden In 11 States
https://babylonbee.com/news/dead-worm-found-in-rfk-jrs-brain-already-polling-higher-than-biden-in-11-states
I remember the episode, and I know exactly what that plot twist is. :)
It really creeped me out when I saw it as well. Classic Rod Serling.
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