Rod Serling 1924-1975
On this day the world lost not only a genius but a husband, father, friend, writer, creator, speaker, teacher, icon and thoughtful human being. His legacy remains.
"Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in the uniquely popular American institution, that of a department store Santa Claus, in a road-company version of The Night Before Christmas."
#S2E11
Twilight Zone's "Night of the Meek" stars Art Carney.
2024! Join us in celebrating the 100th year of Rod Serling’s legacy! Statue unveiling, best SerlingFest yet, and many more events we’ll be involved in this year! Hope you can visit
#Binghamton
, NY and be a part of it!
“Even at midnight, it’s high noon, the hottest day in history, and you’re about to spend it ... in the Twilight Zone.”
#S3E10
Twilight Zone's "The Midnight Sun" by Rod Serling stars Lois Nettleton and Betty Garde.
"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
Rod Serling
No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
~Rod Serling
The competition is back!
Put all your pent-up energy and creativity to work!
This is a contest to stimulate the imagination. Tell us about a Twilight Zone that you’ve dreamed up.
Click here to read the rules and begin writing!
Deadline - Halloween!
Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause; he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.
~ Rod Serling
A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
~Rod Serling
For a look at the full line-up of Twilight Zone episodes for Syfy’s New Year’s marathon, click this link from
@TVInsider
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What it lacks in logic (e.g., “Time Enough at Last” at 8:30am on the 30th?), it makes up for in length: 140 episodes
If you're a
#TwilightZone
fan and happen to find yourself near Madison WI, this is not to be missed. Watching an episode in a screening room with scripts, notes, photos and any other related material is amazing.
#RodWhiteandBlue
#TwilightZoneMarathon
For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own-for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
There are just a handful of days left to enter the Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone contest before Halloween. Take us to *your* personal Twilight Zone. Enter twice, here:
For those told they're not good enough, they will never make it... Someone once said to my dad, "You ought to switch careers because you'll never be a writer."
Image: Rod Serling 4th Emmy
"I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people."
~Rod Serling
"In every country in which there has been a loss of freedom, where does it begin? It begins in news media, in public print, in books, and on the proscenium. That's where they attack you first right there. That's the bread basket."
—Rod Serling