Contents

FOREWORD by Anne Serling

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 From Binghamton to the Battlefield and Back

CHAPTER 2 A Storm in Cincinnati

VIDEOGRAPHY 1 Stars over Hollywood and Lux Video Theatre

CHAPTER 3 Serling’s Obsolete Men

VIDEOGRAPHY 2 Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Doctor, and Kraft Television Theatre

CHAPTER 4 A Return to Radio

VIDEOGRAPHY 3 Chrysler Medallion Theatre, Motorola Television Hour, and Studio One

CHAPTER 5 Say Something about Something: Serling on Having a Point of View

CHAPTER 6 In Praise of the Individual

VIDEOGRAPHY 4 Danger and Ford Theatre

CHAPTER 7 “Patterns”: An Overnight Sensation Five Years in the Making

VIDEOGRAPHY 5 Climax!, United States Steel Hour, Matinee Theatre, and Kaiser Aluminum Hour

CHAPTER 8 Serling in the Censorship Arena

CHAPTER 9 From the Middle Ground to the Murder of Emmett Till

CHAPTER 10 Of “Dust” and “Doomsday”

CHAPTER 11 Live from Television City in Hollywood: Playhouse 90

CHAPTER 12 A Ninety-Minute Knockout: “Requiem for a Heavyweight”

VIDEOGRAPHY 6 Playhouse 90

CHAPTER 13 In the Presence of Whose Enemies? Serling and Anti-Semitism

CHAPTER 14 Patterns of Violence

CHAPTER 15 It’s about Time: Desilu Playhouse’s “The Time Element”

CHAPTER 16 Entering The Twilight Zone

VIDEOGRAPHY 7 The Twilight Zone: Season 1

VIDEOGRAPHY 8 The Twilight Zone: Season 2

VIDEOGRAPHY 9 The Twilight Zone: Season 3

VIDEOGRAPHY 10 The Twilight Zone: Season 4

VIDEOGRAPHY 11 The Twilight Zone: Season 5

CHAPTER 17 After Twilight: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Movie and The Twilight Zone: Season 6

CHAPTER 18 The Loner

VIDEOGRAPHY 12 The Loner

CHAPTER 19 Another Christmas, Another Carol, and the Soviet Communist Conspiracy

CHAPTER 20 Odd Street and The Doomsday Flight: The Twilight Zone Sequel That Never Was

CHAPTER 21 Rod Serling and Planet of the Apes

CHAPTER 22 The New People and the Same Old Song and Dance

CHAPTER 23 “A Storm in Summer”

CHAPTER 24 A Season to Be Wary of the Night Gallery

VIDEOGRAPHY 13 Night Gallery: Pilot and Season 1

VIDEOGRAPHY 14 Night Gallery: Season 2

VIDEOGRAPHY 15 Night Gallery: Season 3

CHAPTER 25 Rod Serling: Actor, Narrator … Game Show Host?

CHAPTER 26 Between Science and Superstition: Rod’s Religion

CHAPTER 27 A Legacy as Timeless as Infinity

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

APPENDIX A Additional Videography

APPENDIX B The Storm: Videography, Notes, and Sources

APPENDIX C Selected Uncredited and/or Unproduced Titles

APPENDIX D Rod Serling’s Works and Awards

NOTES

SOURCES

INDEX