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5 unusual facts about Rod Serling


Alberto Socarras

In the 1950s he took part in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone on TV, and offered concerts of cult music at the Carnegie Hall in New York.

Jacqueline Hill

In 1958, she married the director Alvin Rakoff, having the previous year appeared in his BBC adaptation of Rod Serling's American TV play Requiem For A Heavyweight.

Maxie Rosenbloom

Rosenbloom played an important part in television's first 90-minute drama, Requiem for a Heavyweight, written by Rod Serling, and starring Jack Palance as a boxer at the end of his career.

Oscar Cook

Boomerang (Switch on the Light Selwyn & Blount, 1931; A Century of Creepy Stories, Hutchinson, 1934; The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, Pan, 1960; Creepy Stories, Bracken, 1994. Dramatised by Rod Serling as the Night Gallery television series episode "The Caterpillar", first broadcast 1 March 1972)

Out of Limits

However, Rod Serling sued the Marketts for quoting the four note motif from his television show, The Twilight Zone, without his approval, which resulted in the change of the title to "Out of Limits".


Barry Atwater

By 1960, he had achieved enough stature to be named by host Rod Serling in the on-screen promo as one of the stars of the well-known CBS Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".

Bert Granet

Granet worked with Desilu Productions and was instrumental in getting Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone on the air in the late 1950s when he produced his successful pilot pitch The Time Element for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

Ernest Truex

In later life, he became known for playing elderly men on television in works such as Justice, Mr. Peepers, Hazel, and Father Knows Best; he had the main role in the "Kick the Can" episode of Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone (With his son Barry).

Everett Sloane

He starred as the ruthless businessman in both the film and television versions of Rod Serling's Patterns, and in the first season of The Twilight Zone guest starred in "The Fever" as the victim of a Las Vegas slot machine.

James Millhollin

Three times in 1960, 1961, and 1963, he appeared on Rod Serling's CBS fantasy adventure series The Twilight Zone: as Mr. Armbruster in "The After Hours", as Abernathy in "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", and as Masters in "I Dream of Genie".

Mike McGlone

He is perhaps best known as the film noiresque spokesman for GEICO insurance posing rhetorical questions in the vein of Robert Stack or Rod Serling, which are then acted out in humorous fashion.

Old MacDonald Had A Curve

Of Rod Serling's early teleplays, most notably Requiem for a Heavyweight and Patterns, it is one few comedies he ever sold to television.

Robert J. Serling

Brother Rod Serling hired him as a consultant for the airplane sequences in the episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" of his hit TV-show The Twilight Zone.

The 1989 Annual World's Best SF

The stories were previously published in 1988 in the magazines Interzone, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Omni, Amazing Stories, and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, the collection Dance Band on the Titanic, and the anthology Other Edens II.

The Yellow Canary

It stars Pat Boone and Barbara Eden, and it was adapted by Rod Serling from a novel by Whit Masterson, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.


see also

Liar's Club

Liar's Club was first seen during the 1969-70 season with Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone fame) as host, and returned for a three-season run from 1976–79, after airing as a local series on Los Angeles' KTLA during the 1974-75 season.

Slam / Out Here

"Slam", as well as the "Prelude" track from Hold Your Colour, samples a Rod Serling introduction from the American TV show The Twilight Zone.