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The Twilight Zone: Created by Rod Serling. With Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, James Turley. Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
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Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton! .
TitleYearRoleDirector(s)1951Frank1954Charlie Malloy1955Jud Fry1955Stanley Shriner HoffRod Serling’s Complete Filmography. 213 TV scripts, 6 Emmy Awards, 13 movie scripts. All productions listed here occured during Rod Serling’s lifetime, except the final entry, The Time Travellers. 1.
Apr 14, 2022 · The auteur of “The Twilight Zone” was Rod Serling, whose onscreen persona—dark suit, lowered cigarette, introductory words delivered from one side of his mouth—remains so oft-parodied as to...
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Early life
Serling was born in Syracuse, New York, the second of two sons of Esther Serling (née Cooper) and Samuel Lawrence Serling. His brother, Robert J. Serling, (also a writer) became a novelist. Serling was raised in Binghamton, NY, but his family also had a summer home on Cayuga Lake, in New York's Finger Lakes region. This would later inspire the name "Cayuga Productions" for use on The Twilight Zone productions. Though brought up in a Jewish family, Serling's family infrequently attended synago...
Military service
Rod Serling served as a U.S. Army paratrooper and demolition specialist with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific Theater in World War II from January 1943 to January 1945. He was seriously wounded in the wrist and knee during combat in the province of Leytein the Philippines and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Serling's military service deeply affected the rest of his life and influenced much of his writing. Due to his wartime experiences...
College years
Rod enrolled in Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio under the G.I. Bill of Rights. He met his future wife, Carol Kramer, during his first year at the college and the two were married in an ecumenical service at the Antioch chapel on July 31, 1948. He found himself inspired by the words of Unitarian educator Horace Mann, first president of Antioch College: These words, along with a rendition of Antioch's Horace Mann statue would later be featured in the Season 3 The Twilight Zone episode,...
After his death, several Serling scripts were produced. In 1988, J. Michael Straczynski scripted Serling's outline "Our Selena is Dying" for the 1980s revival The New Twilight Zone. Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) was a TV movie based on a Serling script and an outline for another story (the latter was expanded and scripted by Richard Matheson),...
During his lifetime, Rod Serling received six Emmys, and his biggest successes in writing include: 1. Patterns (1955) 2. Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956) 3. The Comedian (1957) 4. A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958) 5. The Velvet Alley (1958) 6. The Twilight Zone (1959- 1964 television series) 7. Night Gallery (1970 - 1973 television series) 8. Planet...
"I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out... I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything." -(197..."If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive." -(1964), on peace"If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man...."I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I’ve written, there is a thread of this: man’s...DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man by Gordon F. Sander (Dutton, 1992), ISBN 978-0525935506
The Twilight Zone: Created by Simon Kinberg, Jordan Peele, Marco Ramirez, Rod Serling. With Jordan Peele, David Epstein, Kelly Ann Woods, Mark Silverman. An updated version of the classic anthology series featuring various tales of science fiction, mystery, and horror.
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Sep 27, 2019 · On October 2, 1959, the world was introduced to Rod Serling's 'The Twilight Zone.' In one episode, he used the show to bring justice to Nazis.
