#ParamountPlus has #TheTwilightZone series. Watching the pilot episode. Imagine "waking up" and finding yourself in a deserted town with amnesia. #RodSerling sure knew how to do creepy. #EarlHolliman #SciFi
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Back There (The Twilight Zone, 1961): A patron of a gentlemen’s club finds himself transported back in time to a point shortly before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Dust (The Twilight Zone, 1961) is a Western-themed story about a conman peddling ‘magic’ dust - which he says could save a man from hanging.
In 1963, in the fourth season of "The Twilight Zone", Rod Serling imagined fascism in the US.
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https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html
Open CultureWhen The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis HopperWatch through The Twilight Zone, and you'll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton.
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (The Twilight Zone, 1960): Jackie Rhoades (Joe Mantell) makes an alarming discovery in the mirror of his cheap hotel room.
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Fuck me, Rod Serling was a motherfucking poet with "The After Hours."
Saw this on BSky today. Apparently it’s from 2016, but feels even more accurate today.
The Man in the Bottle is episode two of the second season of The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling. A luckless couple - Arthur and Edna Castle - stumble upon a genie.
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King Nine Will Not Return (1960) opened the second season of The Twilight Zone with the haunting tale of a wartime pilot, played by Bob Cummings, who’s stranded in the desert, seemingly deserted by his crew. www.speckled.band #thetwilightzone #television #tv #1960s #60s #rodserling #Supernatural
Where Is Everybody? The Twilight Zone’s First Episode Tackled Atomic Anxieties—Den of Geek
Excellent essay on Twilight Zone ushering ‘60s zeitgeist in 1959 debut.
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Den of Geek · Where Is Everybody? The Twilight Zone's First Episode Tackled Atomic AnxietiesIn this guest essay, pop culture historian Arlen Schumer reveals how The Twilight Zone's first episode ushered America into the transformative '60s.
Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece up at RogerEbert.com about Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. https://culturalgutter.com/2025/01/21/the-metaphor-years-writing-lessons-from-the-twilight-zone/ #tv #series #RodSerling #TheTwilightZone #writing
The Cultural Gutter · “The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from The Twilight Zone”At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menac…
Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," believed that the arts were a vehicle for social criticism. While his famous show is now thought of as a sci-fi and fantasy anthology, it was also a way for Serling and others to critique the United States' policies. "The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of lingering McCarthyism, Cold War paranoia, rampant racism, and relentless pressure to conform to a middle American, white, heterosexual, three-kids-and-a-suburban-house idea of normalcy," writes Matt Zoller Seitz of Roger Ebert. Here's his tribute to Serling's creative courage.
Roger Ebert · The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from "The Twilight Zone" | Features | Roger EbertA look back at a show that never shied away from commenting on the world around it.
Apparently written to bolster then flagging support for the United Nations in the US (1964) then not shown again until 2012. It's a melancholy watch but for the joy of seeing Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers & Robert Shaw. #RodSerling #1964 #TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjAQHuM85M&t=5042
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. -Rod Serling, writer of the science fiction TV series "The Twilight Zone" (25 Dec 1924-1975)
100th anniversary of birth of Rod Serling. My hero.
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Happy 100th Birthday, Rod Serling!
Photo: "Binghamton Press & Star Bulletin" via Rod Serling Memorial Foundation online
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Remembering Rod Serling on what would have been his 100th birthday...
...in The Twilight Zone.
