NIGHT GALLERY (1970)

"The Lone Survivor"

"An unforgiving sea usually buries its secrets beneath itself. Warships and ocean liners, treasure galleons and submarines turn into rusting relics inside a watery locker, lost to memory. But occasionally there comes a floating unbidden reminder of disaster -- like this lifeboat. The painting is called The Lone Survivor. We'll put it in tow and see where she came from and why."

An anthology series, much like "The Twilight Zone" hosted by Rod Serling. The series episodes were almost always centered around a painting that forshadowed awful things to come for its owners. The episode "Lone Survivor" starts off in 1915 when a British ocean liner picks up what appears to be a woman adrift in a Titanic lifeboat. It turns out that "She" is a "He", and that he (John Colicos) smuggled himself into one of Titanics lifeboats dressed as a woman. His curse is that he now floats around, much like the Flying Dutchman, from doomed liner to doomed liner. It turns out that this ship is the Lusitania. He tries to warn the Captain, who ignores his advice. Years later, he is floating around in a Lusitania lifeboat, and is picked up by the Andrea Doria.

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