FOREWORD by Anne Serling
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 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”
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 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
APPENDIX A Additional Videography
APPENDIX B The Storm: Videography, Notes, and Sources
APPENDIX C Selected Uncredited and/or Unproduced Titles