Spaw and Kim: Parents would get mad at kids for writing on the TV screen, too, during the Winky Dink show (instead of using the plastic sheet Spaw mentions)!

chanteyranger: That short segment with John Astin on "Night Gallery" is IMO one of the best things that show ever broadcast! For the rest of the class: Astin (as a hippie) is first shown dying in a (motorcycle?) accident, then sliding down a tunnel into a small room, decorated in the style of an early 20th-century parlor. The elderly couple is viewing an extremely boring slide show and making pleasant but meaningless conversation that drives Astin up the wall. Finally he realizes he has died, and demands loudly to have an audience with the devil – who materializes. Astin is fuming because he's anxious to enter Hell, with all the "cool" fire and brimstone, after his less-than-holy life. The devil calmly informs him that he already is in Hell, where he'll spend eternity watching that slide show and listening to the chatter of those people. Before the devil leaves Astin to be tortured forever, he says as an afterthought, something like "The funny thing is, there's a room just like this... up there."

Another great "Night Gallery" short segment that I recall is the one with the gum-chewing, pony-tailed babysitter who arrives at the creepy mansion to watch the creepy couple's son for the evening. The "boy" is never shown, but his growling and panting can be heard from the room above. After going through the list of her son's odd habits with the sitter, the creepy mother goes upstairs to get her "child" ready for bed. The sitter, still downstairs and increasingly doubtful about the wisdom of taking this job, listens as Mama coaxes her "baby" to take off his shoes: "First one foot... then the other foot... then the other foot..." ...at which point the sitter runs out of the house, screaming!