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i think his kids died of old age too his wife too.

at one time they wanted to cancel his tv show cause he would always smoke in the tv show.

its kind of rude of smoking while being interviewed i would tell him please dont smoke during the interview.

Jeannette Ng & Peter Nichols have both criticized How January thru March 1941 "Astounding" advocated racial genocide of how 1938 to 1946 was often too mythologized.

Rod Serling was asked: how long did Twilight Zone run? Serling responds: from 1959 to ...1962. WHAT? I can't believe he just made such a mistake! We all know it ran from 1959-1964 for 5 seasons. How can he forget the correct years Twilight Zone ran?

Rod was my gay lover in 1997… very small dick

Amazing how they were discussing the history of TV science fiction like it was some long established thing when it was only fifteen years prior. Especially interesting since this interview is now 70+ years old lol.

That’s what I call a cigarette 🚬

Been watching the Twilight Zone my whole life vato Rod speaking truth @ 5:50

I love the thought that one of his favourites was "Time Enough At Last". It's an episode that pretty much everyone remembers the best. It's become a cultural reference well beyond the show itself. We have so many advantages today - hardware, software and distribution. SF should be inexpensive to make and there's a 21st century Rod Serling out there.

I was around when TZ first aired it’s always been a part of my life I’ve always loved it, then I saw his daughter on tv expressing her own philosophy on life and his , they are both on the extreme left, I don’t know why I thought any different about Hollywood, but somehow it surprised me.

There wouldn’t be a planet of the apes movie without Rod Serling.

President Reagan got a private screening of the movie before it aired on ABC in the United States. It left him terribly depressed and some say led him to the rapprochement with the USSR in 1985. He was still a man of principle and anti-Communist but he also realized the awesome power in his hands and what it could unleash. Also, the nice lady who owned the farm that was destroyed in the movie rebuked the characters in the movie for trying to escape. An ICBM installation would be hit by one or several ground burst weapons and a property so close by would be turned into plasma - even in an underground shelter. She was planning for a tornado not a thermonuclear ground burst.

The day after was a comedy compared to threads.

The USA would not survive a full scale nuclear war.

What a lovely humble man!!!! ❤❤❤❤

For all its horror, The Day After is still a movie. Threads, on the other hand, is a depression shot that goes on and on and just never ends...

Wow!

Is this just atrocious lighting or is his skin just burnt af!?

As Einstein said: "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

He must have been on the water getting sun..he's very read faced.

he was so advanced because he was trying to describe the importance of being a 360 degree observer so that you are visible & invisible at once ubiquitous but asleep so free all degrees of freedom to solve whatever comes your way because our work is never done

The Arthur C. CLarke novelization of 2001 explains the ending of the film pretty clearly. Kubrick did a great job of visually portraying the bizarre and incomprehensible experience of encountering the technology of a civilization millions of years ahead of our own.

Forry was the ambassador of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a man who created a bridge to the past that inspired and fed the wild dreams of the passionate young nerds who created the SF&F of the future. He truly was one of a kind. A funny note: Forry never put a period after the "J" in his name, and as a result, he often found junk mail stuffed into the Ackermansion's mailbox that was addressed to "Mr Jackerman." He got a kick out of that. Forry got a laugh out of everything.

This makes me miss my MIL so much. Every time there was a Twilight Zone marathon on tv, she'd message me to let me know so I could watch at the same time, and she kept it up for awhile during the pandemic until she deteriorated so fast and then died in hospice. She just loved anything Serling did, and so do I

A lot of people mention Rod saying “It’s like God’s telling me to not smoke.” Anyone who smokes or has in the past knows that guilt. Unfortunately nicotine is extremely addictive. Also, I get that impression that Rod was a very intense personality and a workoholic. The smoking goes hand in hand with that. He was an amazing person and I wish I had the opportunity to meet him.

THIS is beautiful..the statement "look for what is shootable in simple form" is key. This is what needs to be approached more now.

16:24 - Suskind’s show was called TheDuPont Show of the Week. There are a couple good episodes, if one digs. The Richest Man in Bogata is well written. A Sound of Hunting another. Several episodes are dramatizations and indeed flat.

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A man of integrity, creativity and imagination just for starters. I admire him and so much appreciate his productions that have endured to this day dating back many decades.

"Threads" did have a more graphic depiction of the aftermath, but I will always find "The Day After" FAR more frightening. The anxious build up to the attack and the gothic, demonic mushroom clouds rising up into the air just created a chilling atmosphere that no other nuke film has ever matched. For those in the UK that are fans of "Threads", I highly recommend the film "The War Game" from 1965. I felt that British effort was better than "Threads", as well.

'I think God is telling me: don't smoke.' I wish Mr. Serling had thought about stopping smoking cigarettes more seriously. He died at age 50 of a heart attack. :(

CIG! I need CIGS!!!!! Sorry Not sorry

If he only knew how extraordinary his two shows always will be Nothing else is a replacement They Stopped trying .

His face is red as roses 🌹 but his lungs are blk as night. He smoked from sun rise to sun down and even longer 3;to 4 packs a day. That was when there were 24 cigarettes a pack unlike todays 15 to 20 so he really really smoked much more then people think. Not to mention the second hand smoke he received in every restaurant planes and buildings back then.

And we thought Donald trumps face was bad. I love the twilight zone and I just bought the full series of his night gallery but it's definitely not as good because it's not in blk and white

Every time I see a Rod Serling interview I'm blown away by his vocabulary and his naturally poetic and descriptive way of talking. Later in the interview he's talking about a show called Tales of Tomorrow and he says this "I think what it did do, was to supply by virtue of its own moderate success was to provide a kind of an entree to the darkness that surrounds us" 17:25

I wrote to Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein when I was 17. I told each of them why they were my favorite writers and asked them just one question: who was their favorite writer? They both wrote back! Heinlein simply said "All good wishes," with his signature, and Asimov wrote, "My favorite writer? Why, Isaac Asimov, of course!" Typical Asimov, I should have seen that coming, but it was great.

So what happened to all the hundreds of stories submitted to him? I would love to read them

facinating guy ,he brought so much to the medium

5/2023 and this man will live on forever.

Those dam cigs killed him, he died 5 years later of a few heart attacks and one massive heart attack while getting heart surgery. He smoked 4 to 5 packs a day. RIP.

His novel Darwins Radio was fascinating!

He was definitely a tough critic, It was great to see the reruns .

And don't forget Space:1999 too.

Seven years later the first Star wars would come out in the theatres.

"Come Wander with Me" was an amazing story that haunted me as a child. The image of Bonnie wearing the black veil in the woods stuck with me for life. My favorite is "The Hunt" which was such a hopeful and heartfelt story, it could teach us all a lesson.

Sorry that, because of camera issues, he didn't get to finish the answer he started giving at 10:03, on the extent to which 'Twilight Zone' had relied on published science fiction in its first season (9:52). He approached the question differently when they picked it up again a little later (12:00).

Quite a question to leave us hanging with at the end: 'Do you think they'll ever give creative people a chance to be creative on television?'

He was guessing 1956, but it was the fall of 1958 when 'The Time Element' aired on 'Desilu Playhouse.' 'The Twilight Zone' debuted a year later. (Which would run through 1964, not 1962, as he says at one point. Nowadays we of course have the advantage of being able to look these things up more easily.) (Edit) Also, it turns out he was right to second guess himself at 13:16 -- it was Lynn Venable (not Lucille Fletcher) who wrote the short story on which 'Time Enough at Last' was based. (Fletcher wrote the story that was the basis for the episode 'The Hitch-Hiker'.) (Edit) And FTR, the David Susskind-produced show he mentioned at 16:19 was called 'Way Out,' hosted by writer Roald Dahl. Ran for only 14 episodes, in 1961. Meanwhile, regarding their recollections at 17:10-17:36, the 'Tales of Tomorrow' episode that adapted the Stanley Weinbaum story 'The Adaptive Ultimate' aired in 1952 under the title 'The Miraculous Serum.'