A six-foot statue of Rod Serling now stands in Recreation Park, nodding to the creator of *The Twilight Zone* and his ...

They’re within us — our fears, our hatreds, our need to blame.” Rod Serling, TV Guide Interview, Oct.1959. “The tools of ...

While The Twilight Zone was never billed as a straight-up horror show, the series was at its best when it was trying to be scary. Rod Serling and the other writers would often include monsters in ...

Across five seasons and 156 episodes, including an entire season expanded to one-hour episodes, Rod Serling’s sci-fi/horror masterpiece entertained audiences.

In fact, says Nick Parisi, president of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation, he was pretty much TV’s first showrunner. “It is almost impossible to overstate Rod Serling ’ s influence on television. He ...

The Twilight Zone creator and screenwriter Rod Serling would celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 25, 2024 Rod's daughter, Anne Serling, and TV writer, Marc Scott Zicree, each published books about ...

Rod's writing career came in the wake of his time fighting in World War II. Rod served as a U.S. paratrooper from 1943 to 1945, and Anne says that years later, her dad was still deeply affected by ...

Rod died from a heart attack at age 50, when Anne was 20 years old. She published her memoir, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, in 2013, and says that she wrote the book to show readers that her ...

Rod Serling teaches a class of professional writers as a writer in residence at Antioch College in fall of 1962. Serling, who created the television classic "The Twilight Zone" was a 1950 Antioch ...

♪♪ [ Bird chirping ] [ Big band music plays ] [ Bird chirping ] Young Rod Serling was something of a prankster. ♪♪ [ Stick snaps ] He'd go to great lengths to shock his friends and family.

It's difficult to imagine a version of The Twilight Zone without Serling's inimitable input, and every subsequent take on the ...