An iconic episode from The Twilight Zone season 4 made a series-first change to Rod Serling's role that was never repeated in ...

Few anthology shows are as iconic as Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. When it debuted in 1959, the peculiar blend of sci-fi and mind-bending twists was beyond revolutionary. It was, in every sense, a ...

Rod Serling’s Forgotten Twilight Zone Follow-Up Was Cancelled After Just One Season Because It Was Too ‘Rod Serling’ for the Network 60 years ago, the legendary television writer went from ...

They’re within us — our fears, our hatreds, our need to blame.” Rod Serling, TV Guide Interview, Oct.1959. “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout … ...

Serling won six Emmys as the creator, host and narrator of the hit 1960s sci-fi drama. The series tackled issues such as race, gender, religion, and other problems that plagued the mid-20th century.

Serling%2C 50%2C died of a heart attack in 1975 Those of us who knew Rod Serling only through 50 years of Twilight Zone reruns have a definite picture of the man in our minds.

Related: The Twilight Zone ’s Rod Serling Would Turn 100 This Christmas: Remembering the Icon and His Legacy Another standout episode, Anne notes, is “The Dummy" from season three, about a ...

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 ...

Rod Serling was interested in writing meaningful drama that probed human nature and the ills of modern society. The problem with that: He chose to work in television — which, in the 1950s ...