Table of Contents
Foreword Anne Serling xiii
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 From Binghamton to the Battlefield and Back 7
Chapter 2 A Storm in Cincinnati 23
Videography 1 Stars over Hollywood and Lux Video Theatre 34
Chapter 3 Serling's Obsolete Men 45
Videography 2 Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Doctor, and Kraft Television Theatre 50
Chapter 4 A Return to Radio 69
Videography 3 Chrysler Medallion Theatre, Motorola Television Hour, and Studio One 72
Chapter 5 Say Something about Something: Serling on Having a Point of View 83
Chapter 6 In Praise of the Individual 86
Videography 4 Danger and Ford Theatre 91
Chapter 7 "Patterns": An Overnight Sensation Five Years in the Making 96
Videography 5 Climax!, United States Steel Hour, Matinee Theatre, and Kaiser Aluminum Hour 104
Chapter 8 Serling in the Censorship Arena 123
Chapter 9 From the Middle Ground to the Murder of Emmett Till 128
Chapter 10 Of "Dust" and "Doomsday" 136
Chapter 11 Live from Television City in Hollywood: Playhouse 90 151
Chapter 12 A Ninety-Minute Knockout: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" 154
Videography 6 Playhouse 90 160
Chapter 13 In the Presence of Whose Enemies? Serling and Anti-Semitism 174
Chapter 14 Patterns of Violence 178
Chapter 15 Its about Time: Desilu Playhouse's "The Time Element" 185
Chapter 16 Entering The Twilight Zone 189
Videography 7 The Twilight Zone: Season 1 200
Videography 8 The Twilight Zone: Season 2 227
Videography 9 The Twilight Zone: Season 3 248
Videography 10 The Twilight Zone: Season 4 269
Videography 11 The Twilight Zone: Season 5 276
Chapter 17 After Twilight: Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Movie and The Twilight Zone: Season 6 288
Chapter 18 The Loner 293
Videography 12 The Loner 300
Chapter 19 Another Christmas, Another Carol, and the Soviet Communist Conspiracy 322
Chapter 20 Odd Street and The Doomsday Flight: The Twilight Zone Sequel That Never Was 327
Chapter 21 Rod Serling and Planet of the Apes 332
Chapter 22 The New People and the Same Old Song and Dance 346
Chapter 23 "A Storm in Summer" 349
Chapter 24 A Season to Be Wary of the Night Gallery 356
Videography 13 Night Gallery: Pilot and Season 1 367
Videography 14 Night Gallery: Season 2 398
Videography 15 Night Gallery: Season 3 441
Chapter 25 Rod Serling: Actor, Narrator … Game Show Host? 451
Chapter 26 Between Science and Superstition: Rod's Religion 456
Chapter 27 A Legacy as Timeless as Infinity 463
Acknowledgments 467
Appendix A Additional Videography 469
Appendix B The Storm: Videography, Notes, and Sources 482
Appendix C Selected Uncredited and/or Unproduced Titles 489
Appendix D Rod Serling's Works and Awards 494
Notes 510
Sources 523
Index 527
