ABBREVIATIONS
Antiochiana | Antiochiana Collection, Antioch College |
CE | Cincinnati Enquirer |
LAT | Los Angeles Times |
NYT | New York Times |
TZM | Twilight Zone Magazine |
UCLA | Rod Serling Papers, 1945–1969, Department of Special Collections, UCLA Library |
WHS | Rod Serling Papers, 1943–1971, Wisconsin Historical Society |
INTRODUCTION
1. Lawrence Laurent, Washington Post News Service, January 17, 1968. This is Serling’s wording as originally quoted, which differs from the most common version attributed to him.
2. “Richard Matheson,” Archive of American Television, http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/richard-matheson.
3. Rod Serling, Patterns, 6.
CHAPTER 1: FROM BINGHAMTON TO THE BATTLEFIELD AND BACK
1. Rod Serling.
2. Tom Cawley, “City Is Serling’s Geographical Womb,” Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin, January 16, 1968.
3. Bob Rosenbaum, “Life with Rod,” TZM, April 1987.
4. “Writing for Television,” part 10.
5. Robert Serling, interview.
6. Rod Serling, “My Most Memorable Christmas,” TZM, January 1982.
7. Sander, Serling, 43.
8. “Writing for Television,” part 13.
9. Robert Serling, interview.
10. Linda Brevelle, “Rod Serling: The Facts of Life,” TZM, April 1982.
11. Engel, Rod Serling.
12. “Life Aims,” ca. 1947, Antiochiana.
13. Ibid.
14. “Writing for Television,” part 13.
15. Jeanne Marshall, “525-Mile Trek a Snap for Commuting Grandma,” Dayton Daily News, February 5, 1963.
16. “511th Parachute Infantry Regiment Troopers Killed in Action during World War II,” Drop Zone Virtual Museum, http://www.thedropzone.org/units/511thkia.htm.
17. Ibid.
18. Rod Serling, Patterns, 243.
19. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 5.
CHAPTER 2: A STORM IN CINCINNATI
1. “Life of Rod Serling.”
2. Rod Serling, “About Writing for Television,” in Patterns, 1.
3. Ibid., 2.
4. “Life of Rod Serling.”
5. Ibid.
6. “Writing for Television,” part 10.
7. Rod Serling, “About Writing for Television,” in Patterns.
8. Ibid., 12.
9. Dawidziak, interview.
10. Rod Serling to Dick Perry, April 19, 1956, WHS.
11. Mary Wood, “Local Video’s Lone Drama,” Cincinnati Post, November 15, 1951.
12. “Life of Rod Serling.”
13. “Writer’s Credit Varied,” CE, September 23, 1951. This piece confirms that both stations were aware of this arrangement.
14. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 66.
15. James Devane, “‘Patterns’ Makes Writer Serling Groan,” CE, June 7, 1958.
16. Rod Serling to J. P. McKeown, May 21, 1956, WHS.
17. Ellen Cameron May, “Serling in Creative Mainstream,” LAT, June 25, 1967.
18. Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, March 28, April 11, 1952, WHS.
19. TV Dial, April 5, 1952.
20. “Chinese Family Offered Houses in Many Areas,” Salem Statesman Journal, February 18, 1952.
21. “Opposition to Chinese Family Stands Pat in Bitter Parley,” Fresno Bee: The Republican, February 23, 1952.
22. Lawrence Laurent, Washington Post News Service, January 17, 1968.
23. John Caldwell, “Look and Listen,” CE, November 13, 1951.
24. “Life of Rod Serling.”
25. John Caldwell, “Look and Listen,” CE, April 19, 1952.
26. Ibid., April 26, 1952.
VIDEOGRAPHY 1: STARS OVER HOLLYWOOD AND LUX VIDEO THEATRE
1. Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, April 3, 1950, WHS.
2. Rod Serling, interview by Wallace.
3. Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, February 29, 1952, WHS.
4. Ibid., August 3, 1950, November 30, December 14, 1951, February 29, 1952, Ruth Russell to Rod Serling, [1952], quoted in Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, March 11, 1952, all in WHS.
4. Richard Goode to Rod Serling, [1952], WHS.
6. TV Guide, March 9, 1972.
7. Rod Serling, Patterns, 7.
8. Ibid.
9. “Life of Rod Serling.” Marmer misremembers the amount of the check.
10. Rod Serling, Patterns, 15.
CHAPTER 3: SERLING’S OBSOLETE MEN
1. “Writing for Television,” part 13.
2. “Rod Serling Lecture 1973.”
3. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
VIDEOGRAPHY 2: ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATRE, HALLMARK HALL OF FAME, THE DOCTOR, AND KRAFT TELEVISION THEATRE
1. Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, April 11, May 7, 1952, WHS.
2. Jack Rosenstein, Hollywood Reporter, quoted in Serling, Patterns, 41.
3. Ernest Schier, Philadelphia News, quoted in ibid.
4. Blanche Gaines to Rod Serling, October 20, 1952, WHS.
5. Rod Serling, “Rod Serling: Midwest Video Scripter,” Writers’ Digest, December 1953.
6. Dalton, James Dean, 105.
7. Ibid.
8. Myron Golden to Rod Serling, October 10, 1949, WHS.
9. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
CHAPTER 4: A RETURN TO RADIO
1. Rod Serling, Patterns, 5.
VIDEOGRAPHY 3: CHRYSLER MEDALLION THEATRE, MOTOROLA TELEVISION HOUR, AND STUDIO ONE
1. Sander, Serling, 48.
2. Rod Serling to Max Youngstein, July 30, 1956, WHS.
CHAPTER 5: SAY SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING: SERLING ON HAVING A POINT OF VIEW
1. Rod Serling, “Impressions of Antioch” (comments provided to Antioch College for public relations purposes), ca. 1962 [audio], Antiochiana.
2. “Point of View,” Clearwater, Fla. 1972, on Rod Serling Speaks.
3. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
4. “Rod Serling Lecture 1973.”
CHAPTER 6: IN PRAISE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
1. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
2. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966.”
3. Rod Serling, Commencement Address.
CHAPTER 7: “PATTERNS”: AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING
1. Rod Serling, “Rod Serling: Midwest Video Scripter,” Writers’ Digest, December 1953.
2. Ibid.
3. Rod Serling, Patterns, 20.
5. Rod Serling, interview by Nolan.
6. Dawidziak, interview.
7. Ring Lardner Jr., “TV’s New ‘Realism,’” The Nation, August 13, 1955.
8. Andrew Sarris, “Rod Serling: Viewed from beyond the Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling: Dimensions of Imagination, 13.
9. Rod Serling, Patterns, 86.
10. “Writing for Television,” part 1.
11. Rod Serling, Patterns, 90.
12. Ibid., 86.
VIDEOGRAPHY 5: CLIMAX!, UNITED STATES STEEL HOUR, MATINEE THEATRE, AND KAISER ALUMINUM HOUR
1. Rod Serling, Patterns, 31.
2. Gene Plotnik, “Serling Creates Vapid Characters,” Billboard, December 3, 1955.
3. Rod Serling, Patterns, 136.
4. Francis R. Boyles to Rod Serling, April 27, 1955, WHS.
5. H. N. Swanson to Blanche Gaines, April 13, 1955, WHS.
6. Rod Serling to William E. Mayer, April 13, 1955, WHS.
7. Saul Pett, “‘Rack’ Proves TV Can Stand on Its Own,” Paris News, April 17, 1955.
8. Hift, “Television Review: Tele Follow-Up Comment—U.S. Steel Hour on ABC-TV,” Variety, April 20, 1955.
9. Rod Serling, Patterns, 140.
10. Rod Serling to Albert McCleery, January 11, 1952, WHS.
11. Laurence Schwab to Rod Serling, March 18, 1960, Rod Serling to Laurence Schwab, April 5, 1960, both in author’s possession.
CHAPTER 8: SERLING IN THE CENSORSHIP ARENA
1. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 14.
2. Rod Serling, Patterns, 23.
3. Ibid., 25.
4. Rod Serling to Jack and Luci Natteford, April 8, 1956, WHS.
CHAPTER 9: FROM THE MIDDLE GROUND TO THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL
1. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
2. Forrest Davis, “The Black-and-White World of Mr. Rod Serling,” CE, March 28, 1954.
3. Sander, Serling, 80.
4. Rod Serling, speech at United Unitarian Church of Columbus, Ohio, early 1962 (transcript), WHS.
5. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 186.
6. Aline Mosby, United Press, September 21, 1955.
7. Reggie Schuebel to Edward Reed, March 28, 1955, in author’s possession.
8. Ellen Cameron May, “Serling in Creative Mainstream,” LAT, June 25, 1967.
9. Rod Serling, “Life Aims,” ca. 1947, Antiochiana.
10. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 66.
11. Rod Serling, Patterns, 20.
CHAPTER 10: OF “DUST” AND “DOOMSDAY”
1. Jo Coppola, “Controversy Watered,” New York Newsday, April 27, 1956; Jack Gould, “Serling’s Play about Narrow-Mindedness in a Small Town Strains Plausibility,” NYT, April 26, 1956; Saul Pett, “Writing Play of Social Protest Is Always Difficult,” Alton Evening Telegraph, April 30, 1956.
2. Rod Serling, Patterns, 20.
3. “Author’s Comment,” in Burack, Television Plays, 353; Serling, Patterns, 21.
4. Rod Serling, Patterns, 21.
5. Rod Serling, interview by Wallace.
6. Rod Serling, interview by Agronsky.
7. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Relation, 12.
8. Dave Kaufman to Rod Serling, April 1, 1956, Rod Serling to Dave Kaufman, April 8, 1956, both in WHS.
9. Daily Variety, December 15, 1955. The piece was reprinted in Weekly Variety, December 21, 1955.
10. Rod Serling to Ira Steiner, January 24, 1956, WHS.
11. Rod Serling to Don Freeman, February 11, 1956, WHS.
12. Rod Serling to Jack and Luci Natteford, April 8, 1956, WHS.
13. “Author’s Comment,” in Burack, Television Plays, 355–56.
14. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Relation, 11.
15. Rod Serling, interview by Wallace.
16. “Author’s Comment,” in Burack, Television Plays, 359.
17. Rod Serling, Patterns, 23.
18. Rod Serling to Jack and Luci Jack Natteford, January 21, 1956, WHS.
19. Ibid., April 8, 1956, WHS.
20. Rod Serling to Verne Jay, May 11, 1956, WHS.
21. Rod Serling to Paul and Norma, May 8, 1956, WHS.
22. “Writing for Television,” part 14.
23. Rod Serling to Paul and Norma, May 8, 1956, WHS.
24. Stanley Frank, “TV’s Most Provocative Show,” Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1960.
25. “Tale of a Script,” Time, June 30, 1958.
26. Engel, Rod Serling, 168.
27. Sander, Serling, 135.
28. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Relation.
29. “Tale of a Script,” Time, June 30, 1958.
30. Jack Gould, “Rod Serling’s ‘A Town Has Turned to Dust’ Offered on Playhouse 90,” NYT, June 20, 1958.
31. “The Weary Young Man,” New York Newsday, September 28, 1959.
CHAPTER 11: LIVE FROM TELEVISION CITY IN HOLLYWOOD: PLAYHOUSE 90
1. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
2. Jack Gould, “Rod Serling’s ‘In the Presence of Mine Enemies’ on Playhouse 90,” NYT, May 19, 1960.
3. Martin Manulis to Rod Serling, August 28, 1956, WHS.
4. Jack Gould, “Playhouse 90 Gets Underway with Story about Red Spies, Sneak Attack,” NYT, October 5, 1956.
5. Raleigh Register, October 11, 1956.
6. Anderson Daily Bulletin, October 5, 1956.
7. Time, December 2, 1957.
CHAPTER 12: A NINETY-MINUTE KNOCKOUT: “REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT”
1. Gilbert Millstein, “‘Patterns’ of a Television Playwright,” NYT, December 2, 1956; Rod Serling.
2. Rod Serling, “Autobiographical Sketch,” 1946, Antiochiana.
3. Rod Serling, Patterns, 32.
4. Ibid., 32–33.
5. CE, June 7, 1958.
6. Rod Serling, Patterns, 32.
7. Jane Wyman to Rod Serling, October 12, 1956, UCLA.
8. Rod Serling to Jack and Luci Natteford, October [?] 1956, in author’s possession.
9. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
10. Ibid.
VIDEOGRAPHY 6: PLAYHOUSE 90
1. “PBS July 26, 1995 Press Tour, American Masters 10th Anniversary,” Transcript.
2. Rod Serling to Blanche Gaines, October 19, 1955.
3. Lefcourt and Shapiro, First Time I Got Paid for It, 55.
4. Rod Serling to Blanche Gaines, October 19, 1955.
5. Rod Serling.
6. Rod Serling, interview by Nolan.
7. Ibid.
CHAPTER 13: IN THE PRESENCE OF WHOSE ENEMIES? SERLING AND ANTI-SEMITISM
1. Jack Gaver, “Serling’s Much-Discussed Drama on TV This Week,” Kingsport Times News, May 15, 1960.
2. Dick Kleiner, “Rod Serling’s Problems,” Shamokin News-Dispatch, December 22, 1959.
3. Warren Franklin, “Author Rod Serling Speaks His Mind,” Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, May 15, 1960.
4. Leon Uris to Frank Stanton, May 19, 1960, Frank Stanton to Leon Uris, May 20, 1960, both in UCLA.
5. Dr. S. Margoshes, quoted in Leon Uris to Frank Stanton, June 1, 1960, in author’s possession.
6. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 99.
7. “Life Is Grey,” Clearwater, Fla., 1972, on Rod Serling Speaks.
8. John Crosby, “Playhouse 90 Ends on a Downbeat,” St. Louis Dispatch, June 1, 1960.
9. Barbara Delatiner, “On Television,” New York Newsday, May 19, 1960.
10. Jack Gould, “Rod Serling’s ‘In the Presence of Mine Enemies’ on Playhouse 90,” NYT, May 19, 1960.
CHAPTER 14: PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE
1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 41.
2. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
3. “Lecture #2,” East Lansing, Mich., May 1971, on Rod Serling Speaks.
4. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
5. “Lecture #2,” East Lansing, Mich., May 1971, on Rod Serling Speaks.
6. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 66.
7. Martin Luther King Jr. and Carson, Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., 331.
8. Rod Serling, speech, August 1, 1968, Ithaca, N.Y., Rod Serling, speech, January 8, 1969, Costa Mesa, Calif., both in WHS.
9. “Lecture #2,” East Lansing, Mich., May 1971, on Rod Serling Speaks.
10. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966.”
11. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 171.
12. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966.”
13. Ibid.
14. Rod Serling to Ernest Pipes, n.d., UCLA.
15. “Lecture #2,” East Lansing, Mich., May 1971, on Rod Serling Speaks.
16. “Letters to the Times: ‘Bitter Sadness, Special Irony’ Seen in the Passing of Dr. King,” LAT, April 8, 1968.
17. Rod Serling, speech, August 1, 1968, Ithaca, N.Y., WHS.
18. George Anderson, “James Earl Jones Stars as ‘The Man’ on Fulton Screen,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 1, 1972.
CHAPTER 15: IT’S ABOUT TIME: DESILU PLAYHOUSE’S “THE TIME ELEMENT”
1. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 18.
2. “Celebrity Staged Reading of ‘The Masks,’” Paley Center for Media Archive, October 20, 2009.
3. Bernard Weitzman to Sam Kaplan, January 16, 1962, in author’s possession.
4. Jack Gould, “Triumph by Serling: Writer’s ‘Time Element’ Stars William Bendix on Desilu Playhouse,” NYT, November 25, 1958; Sander, Serling, 146.
CHAPTER 16: ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE
1. Rod Serling, “Seeking Far Horizons,” TV Guide, November 7, 1959.
2. Rod Serling, interview by Wallace.
3. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 100. Several variations of this quote have been attributed to Serling, though the author was unable to find its source and suspects it may be apocryphal.
4. Rod Serling, “Kelly Hall” (speech at Antioch College), February 8, 1968 [audio], Antiochiana.
5. TV Guide, June 30, 1962.
6. Sander, Serling, 145–46.
7. The Twilight Zone (Blu-ray).
8. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 45.
9. Rod Serling to Buck Houghton, April 26, 1960, in author’s possession.
10. Hal Humphrey, “Viewing TV,” San Jose Mercury News, November 29, 1959.
11. Charles Beaumont, “The Seeing I,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1959.
12. Clute, SF, 298.
13. The Twilight Zone (Blu-ray).
14. “Richard Matheson,” Archive of American Television, http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/richard-matheson.
15. Charles Beaumont, “The Seeing I,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1959.
16. “Richard Matheson,” Archive of American Television, http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/richard-matheson.
17. Rod Serling, interview by Gunn.
18. Ibid.; Rod Serling, interview for Social Security in Action.
19. Cynthia Lowry, “Rod Serling: Writer Who Broke the Rule,” Pasadena Independent Star-News, December 15, 1963.
20. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 406.
21. Peter Bart, “Serling Leaving TV for Pictures,” NYT, November 2, 1964.
VIDEOGRAPHY 7: THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 1
1. “Requiem for a Medium,” Show Business Illustrated, November 28, 1961.
2. Grams, Twilight Zone, 167.
3. Rod Serling to Buck Houghton, April 26, 1960, in author’s possession.
4. Rod Serling to J. R. High, November 16, 1959, in author’s possession; “Origin of Twilight Zone Story Ideas” (memo prepared for TV Guide, June 28, 1960), WHS.
5. Rod Serling, interview by Lum.
6. Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
7. Rod Serling to Owen Comora, October 21, 1959, in author’s possession.
8. Rod Serling to J. E. Wolfe, October 26, 1960, in author’s possession.
9. Olshaker, interview.
10. “Origin of Twilight Zone Story Ideas” (memo prepared for TV Guide, June 28, 1960), WHS.
11. Ibid.
12. Grams, Twilight Zone, 22–23.
13. Rod Serling to Hamilton (Bud) Morgan, July 6, 1960, in author’s possession.
14. “Origin of Twilight Zone Story Ideas” (memo prepared for TV Guide, June 28, 1960), WHS.
VIDEOGRAPHY 8: THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 2
1. Rod Serling to Owen Comora, November 28, 1960, in author’s possession.
2. Ibid., December 12, 1960.
3. Ibid., November 28, 1960.
4. Ibid., October 6, 1960.
5. Stuart Reynolds to Rod Serling, November 7, 1960, in author’s possession.
6. Rod Serling to Stuart Reynolds, November 29, 1960, in author’s possession.
7. CBS Television Office Communication to Bill Self from Frank Morris, April 29, 1959, in author’s possession.
8. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
9. Rod Serling to Owen Comora, November 28, 1960, in author’s possession.
10. Ibid., December 12, 1960, Rod Serling to Dick Connelly, December 19, 1960, both in author’s possession.
11. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 113.
12. “Writing for Television,” part 4.
13. Rod Serling to Albert Weisman, January 14, 1960, in author’s possession.
14. Rod Serling to Dick Connelly, December 19, 1960, in author’s possession.
VIDEOGRAPHY 9: THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 3
1. Rod Serling to Frederic Fox, October 12, 1961, Frederic Fox to Rod Serling, October 15, 1961, in author’s possession.
2. Rod Serling to Damon Knight, October 12, 1961, in author’s possession.
3. Damon Knight to Rod Serling, March 9, 1962, Rod Serling to Damon Knight, March 13, 1962, both in author’s possession.
4. Vernon Scott, “Rod Sterling [sic] to Quit TV; Takes Teaching Post,” Philadelphia (Ohio) Daily Times, May 3, 1962.
5. Susan Cooper “‘Twilight Zone’ Beckons—Reluctant Rod Serling Returning to TV after a Happy Antioch College Sabbatical,” Toledo Blade, December 9, 1962.
6. Bob Thomas, “‘Seven Days in May’ Ingeniously Devised,” Asbury Park Press, February 6, 1964.
7. Bosley Crowther, “‘Seven Days in May’ a Hair-Raiser,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 1, 1964.
VIDEOGRAPHY 10: THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 4
1. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
2. Cynthia Lowry, “‘Twilight Zone’ Palls on Rod Serling,” Louisville Courier-Journal, December 15, 1963.
3. Presnell and McGee, Critical History, 23.
4. Cecil Smith, “Rod Returns to Earth for Fine Drama,” LAT, October 5, 1963.
VIDEOGRAPHY 11: THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 5
1. “PBS July 26, 1995 Press Tour, American Masters 10th Anniversary,” Transcript.
2. Zicree, Twilight Zone Companion, 411.
3. Bob Thomas, “Documentary on Johnson Will Show Him to World,” San Bernardino County Sun, December 19, 1962.
4. “Writer Minimizes Row over Presidential Film,” LAT, December 19, 1963.
CHAPTER 17: AFTER TWILIGHT: ROD SERLING’S TWILIGHT ZONE MOVIE AND THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 6
1. Alden Schwimmer to Rod Serling, August 2, 1961, in author’s possession.
2. Rod Serling to Alden Schwimmer, August 14, 1961, in author’s possession.
3. Buck Houghton to Rod Serling, June 20, 1962, in author’s possession.
4. Rod Serling to Robert Parrish, June 9, 1964, in author’s possession.
5. Rod Serling to Alden Schwimmer, July 13, 1964, in author’s possession.
6. Rod Serling to Ted Ashley, August 17, 1964, in author’s possession.
7. Rod Serling to Robert Parrish, December 24, 1964, in author’s possession.
8. Variety, April 7, 1966.
9. Rod Serling to Alden Schwimmer, February 5, 1964, in author’s possession.
10. Rod Serling to Ed Sherek, Tom Moore, Ted Ashley, and Ira Steiner, March 11, 1964, in author’s possession.
11. Skelton and Benson, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, 7.
12. Alden Schwimmer to Rod Serling, August 3, 12, 1966, UCLA.
13. Rod Serling to Perry Lafferty, August 28, 1969, in author’s possession.
CHAPTER 18: THE LONER
1. Jonathan Lethem, “On Rod Serling,” Gadfly, September–October 1999.
2. “A Description of THE LONER: A Proposed Hour Television Film Series by Rod Serling,” n.d., in author’s possession.
3. “One of my few gifts is a superb memory. That’s how THE LONER got on the air in the first place, remember?” (Bill Dozier to Rod Serling, November 26, 1965, UCLA).
4. Fritz Goodwin, “How They Put a Skin Diver on a Horse,” TV Guide, November 20, 1965.
5. Erskine Johnson, “Lloyd Bridges Couldn’t Say No to Serling Series,” North Adams Transcript, October 9, 1965.
6. Harold Stern, “Lloyd Bridges to Star in New Western Show,” Decatur Herald, July 3, 1965.
7. “‘Loner’ Halted; Lack of Violence Blamed,” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, September 23, 1965.
8. Rod Serling to Mike Dann, September 13, 1965, WHS.
9. Mike Dann to Rod Serling, September 21, 1965, WHS.
10. “‘Loner’ Halted; Lack of Violence Blamed,” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, September 23, 1965.
11. Rod Serling to Mike Dann, September 27, 1965, WHS.
12. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966.”
13. Rod Serling to Mike Dann, September 27, 1965, WHS.
14. “A Description of THE LONER: A Proposed Hour Television Film Series by Rod Serling,” n.d., in author’s possession.
15. Sander, Serling, 56–57.
VIDEOGRAPHY 12: THE LONER
1. “Dr. King Urges Speedy Passage of Rights Bill,” LAT, June 1, 1964.
2. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966.”
3. Ibid.
4. “Lecture #2,” East Lansing, Mich., May 1971, on Rod Serling Speaks.
5. “Author’s Comment,” in Burack, Television Plays, 354.
6. Albarella, “Rod Serling’s The Loner.”
7. Linda Brevelle, “Rod Serling: The Facts of Life,” TZM, April 1982.
8. Bill Dozier to Rod Serling, October 8, 1965, UCLA.
9. Mike Dann to Rod Serling, February 20, 1968, WHS.
10. Rod Serling to Mike Dann, February 23, 1968, WHS.
CHAPTER 19: ANOTHER CHRISTMAS, ANOTHER CAROL, AND THE SOVIET COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY
1. “U.N. Series Draws Ire of John Birchers,” Southern Illinoisan, August 24, 1964.
2. Thomas Vinciguerra, “Marley Is Dead, Killed in a Nuclear War,” NYT, December 20, 2007.
3. “U.N. Series Draws Ire of John Birchers,” Southern Illinoisan, August 24, 1964.
4. John Birch Society Bulletin, July 1964, quoted in Southern Illinoisan, August 24, 1964; Robert E. Dallos, “Barry’s Loss Brings Birch Society Boom,” Louisville Courier-Journal, April 11, 1965.
5. Rod Serling to Paul G. Hartman, May 29, 1964, quoted in Quinn, “Study.”
6. “Dr. Rafferty’s Views: Rod Serling Disagrees,” LAT, October 15, 1966.
7. Rod Serling, commencement address.
8. Rod Serling to Edgar Rosenberg and Joseph Mankiewicz, June 19, 1964, quoted in Quinn, “Study.”
CHAPTER 20: ODD STREET AND THE DOOMSDAY FLIGHT: THE TWILIGHT ZONE SEQUEL THAT NEVER WAS
1. “Serling Rues Writing of Bomb Hoax Story,” CE, May 29, 1971.
2. Robert Serling, interview.
3. Engel, Rod Serling, 341.
CHAPTER 21: ROD SERLING AND PLANET OF THE APES
1. “Rod Serling Recalls,” Planet of the Apes Magazine, August 1974.
2. Cinefantastique, Summer 1972.
3. “Rod Serling Recalls,” Planet of the Apes Magazine, August 1974.
4. Cinefantastique, Summer 1972.
5. Ibid.
6. Engel, Rod Serling, 295.
7. Russo, Landsman, and Gross, Planet of the Apes Revisited, 27–28.
8. Ibid., 21.
10. “Rod Serling Recalls,” Planet of the Apes Magazine, August 1974.
11. Rod Serling to Mort Abrahams, April 8, 1968, WHS.
12. Ibid.
13. Mort Abrahams to Rod Serling, April 10, 1968, WHS.
14. Rod Serling to Mort Abrahams, April 15, 1968, WHS.
15. Arthur P. Jacobs to Rod Serling, August 16, 1968, WHS.
16. “Rod Serling Recalls,” Planet of the Apes Magazine, August 1974.
CHAPTER 22: THE NEW PEOPLE AND THE SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE
1. Spelling with Graham, Prime-Time Life, 70.
2. Ibid.
3. Cecil Smith, “A Desperate Effort: But New ABC Series Could be Worth Watching,” Akron Beacon-Journal, June 10, 1969.
4. Cecil Smith, “Rod Serling: The Prolific Television Writer Has a ‘Novel’ Idea,” LAT, March 2, 1969.
CHAPTER 23: “A STORM IN SUMMER”
1. Percy Shain, “Young Black, Old Jew Glow on Hall of Fame,” Boston Globe, February 9, 1970.
2. Jack Gould, “TV: A Storm in Summer’: Ustinov Plays Host to Youth in Serling Drama about Racial Prejudice,” NYT, February 7, 1970.
3. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
4. Washington Post, May 13, 1973.
CHAPTER 24: A SEASON TO BE WARY OF THE NIGHT GALLERY
1. Rod Serling, interview by Nolan.
2. Ibid.
3. Rod Serling, “The Challenge of the Mass Media to the Twentieth Century Writer,” speech at Library of Congress, January 15, 1968 (audio recording), Library of Congress.
4. Jerry Buck, “Rod Serling to Write, Host Segment of New TV series,” Bloomington Pantagraph, July 25, 1970.
5. Cecil Smith, “Serling Sells Cheaply His Only Fiction Book,” Beckley Post-Herald, February 15, 1969.
6. Rod Serling to Ted Ashley and Ira Steiner, December 27, 1960, in author’s possession.
7. Skelton, interview.
8. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
9. Smight, interview.
10. Berg, interview.
11. Skelton and Benson, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, 58.
12. Skelton, interview.
13. Skelton and Benson, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, 213.
14. Ibid., 156.
15. Skelton, interview.
16. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Los Angeles Herald Examiner, November 3, 1971.
20. Rod Serling, interview by Cavett.
21. Oliver L. Brennan, “Scripts for ‘Illiterate’: ‘Night Gallery’ Gives Rod Serling Horrors,” Boston Globe, May 7, 1972.
22. TV Week, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 9, 1972.
23. “Rod Serling Lecture 1973.”
24. Rod Serling to Norman Glenn, May 22, 1972.
25. Don Freeman, “Rod Sterling’s [sic] Night Gallery Revamped,” Hamilton Journal News, July 14, 1972.
26. Skelton and Benson, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, 350.
VIDEOGRAPHY 13: NIGHT GALLERY: PILOT AND SEASON 1
1. Bob Rosenbaum, “Life with Rod,” TZM, April 1987.
2. Skelton and Benson, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, 60.
3. Ibid., 63.
4. Ibid., 68.
5. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
6. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
7. Skelton, interview.
8. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
VIDEOGRAPHY 14: NIGHT GALLERY: SEASON 2
1. Skelton, interview.
2. Ibid.
3. Linda Brevelle, “Rod Serling: The Facts of Life,” TZM, April 1982.
4. Neil Ames to Rod Serling, April 19, 1951, WHS.
5. Ibid., June 14, 1951.
6. Stephen King, Danse Macabre, 234.
VIDEOGRAPHY 15: NIGHT GALLERY: SEASON 3
1. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
CHAPTER 25: ROD SERLING: ACTOR, NARRATOR … GAME SHOW HOST?
1. Rod Serling, interview by Nolan.
2. Jack O’Brian, International News Service, April 24, 1957.
3. Rick Du Brow, “Rod Serling Disliked Own Acting but Actually Wasn’t Bad at All,” Elwood Call-Leader, March 21, 1962.
4. Joseph Finnigan, “He’s Serling, but Not Sterling,” Wilmington Morning News, January 29, 1962.
5. “Rod Serling Ill-at-Ease as an Actor,” Florence Morning News, January 29, 1972.
6. Boston Globe, May 7, 1972.
7. Myrna Oliver, “Ex-Screen Star’s Case Dismissed,” LAT, March 27, 1973.
CHAPTER 26: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION: ROD’S RELIGION
1. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 30.
2. Robert Serling, interview.
3. http://www.uusm.org/about-our-church/mission-vision/vision.
4. Rod Serling, “Life Aims,” n.d., Antiochiana.
5. Rod Serling, speech at Binghamton Central High School.
6. Steve Cooper, “Rod Serling Gets Down to Earth,” San Bernardino County Sun, January 10, 1975.
7. “God Is on Our Side,” Clearwater, Fla., 1972, on Rod Serling Speaks.
8. Rod Serling, speech at Moorpark College.
9. Linda Brevelle, “Rod Serling: The Facts of Life,” TZM, April 1982.
10. https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Hells_Truth/rod_serling.htm.
11. Bob Rosenbaum, “Life with Rod,” TZM, April 1987.
12. Gerald Weales, American Drama since World War II, quoted in Quinn, “Study,” 74–75.
13. Rod Serling, commencement address.
14. Charles W. Burgess to Rod Serling, January 27, 1962.
15. Rod Serling to Charles W. Burgess, March 9, 1962.
16. Rev. Wayne Arnason with Anne Obradovich, “Secular Humanism: Dinosaur or Dynamo?” October 14, 2012, http://www.wsuuc.org/documents/sermons/SecularHumanismOct142012-Arnason.pdf.
17. Robert Serling, interview.
18. Rod Serling to Bill Little, November 9, 1971.
CHAPTER 27: A LEGACY AS TIMELESS AS INFINITY
1. “Rod Serling Speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971.”
2. Anne Serling, As I Knew Him, 236.
3. https://thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/roddenberry-on-serling/
4. “Writing for Television,” part 6.
5. “God Is on Our Side,” Clearwater, Fla., 1972, on Rod Serling Speaks.
APPENDIX A: ADDITIONAL VIDEOGRAPHY
1. Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 379.
2. “Stephen Bochco,” Archive of American Television, http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/stephen-bochco#.
3. TV Guide, March 9, 1972.
4. CE, August 27, 1972.
5. Rod Serling Memorial Foundation Newsletter, December 2010, https://www.rodserling.com/newsletter/2010-12/2012-12.html.
APPENDIX B: THE STORM: VIDEOGRAPHY, NOTES, AND SOURCES
1. Rod Serling, lecture, Sherwood Oaks.
2. CE, November 14, 1951.
3. TV Dial, March 15, 1952.
4. John Caldwell, “Look and Listen,” Cincinnati Enquirer, April 1, 1952.
5. Cincinnati Post, April 12, 1952.
APPENDIX C: SELECTED UNCREDITED AND/OR UNPRODUCED TITLES
1. Rod Serling, interview by Nolan.
2. Cecil Smith, “The Man behind the Twilight Zone,” Detroit Free Press, April 23, 1961.
3. Badman, Final Years, 47, 62.
4. New York Herald Tribune, June 5, 1961.
5. Jean M. White, “Rod Serling’s Career Enters the Sixth Dimension,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 13, 1973.