Rod Serling named his production company Cayuga Productions during the years of his TV series, The Twilight Zone.

Throughout the 1950s he directed over 140 episodes of shows like Playhouse 90, Climax !, and Danger, including The Comedian, written by Rod Serling and starring Mickey Rooney as a ragingly vicious television comedian.

The film, written by Rod Serling, costarred Fredric March as the President and Ava Gardner as a former flame of Lancaster's, was nominated for two Oscars.

The anthology series format popularized by Rod Serling rarely appeared in science fiction television after the 1980s, though aspects of this were used in both The X-Files and the 1990s reincarnation of The Outer Limits.

* Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery

He was known for his impersonations of celebrities like Jimmy Carter, Vincent Price, Richard Nixon, Rod Serling, Tom Snyder, and others.

Many playwrights, screenwriters and novelists got their start in radio drama, including Caryl Churchill, Rod Serling, Irwin Shaw and Tom Stoppard.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

It contains Binghamton High School ( formerly Binghamton Central High School ), which is noted for Helen Foley Theater, named by Rod Serling for his drama teacher.

Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone.

Leading writers who created original material for radio included Norman Corwin, Carlton E. Morse, David Goodis, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur Miller, Arch Oboler, Wyllis Cooper, Rod Serling, Jay Bennett, and Irwin Shaw.

This episode originally aired on September 2, 1942, and was later adapted for television by Rod Serling as a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone.

Rodman Edward " Rod " Serling ( December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975 ) was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone.

Sam Serling built a small stage in the basement, where Rod ( with or without neighborhood children ) often put on plays.

In 1970, Serling was signed to host and narrate a 30-minute weekly series for Los Angeles television station KNXT, called Rod Serling's Wonderful World of ....

* 2008: Ian Ballantine ; Betty Ballantine ; Rod Serling ; William Gibson ; Richard M. Powers

* Rod Serling

Announcer: ( as the title appears ) " Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, will tell you about next week's story — after this word from our alternate sponsor.

Prior to this episode, Rod Serling had written an episode called " The Happy Place " as the pilot for his new series.

In his 1959 promotional film shown to potential sponsors, Rod Serling summarized an earlier version of this episode's plot under its original title, " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle.

" Escape Clause " was one of the three episodes-in-production mentioned by Rod Serling in his 1959 promotional film pitching the series to potential sponsors, the others being " The Lonely " and " Mr. Denton on Doomsday " ( referred to as " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle ").

Good work, Rod Serling.

Coincidentally, Jack Warden would star in another episode of this season featuring a robot, " The Mighty Casey ", also written by Rod Serling.

This was the first episode aired that was written by Charles Beaumont ( and also the first that was not written by Rod Serling ).

' Then he sent it to Rod Serling, who had a new series that season called The Twilight Zone.

Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

However, the studio Leone went to had an actor, Rod Steiger, with one more picture in his studio contract and the studio announced that Leone would have to use him if they were to put up any financing.

Sluggers Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison, who had already been stars in Washington, were joined by Tony Oliva and Zoilo Versalles, and later second baseman Rod Carew and pitchers Jim Kaat and Jim Perry, winning the American League pennant in 1965.

John Burkett and Bill Swift both had 20 + wins, and closer Rod Beck was dominant with 48 saves and a 2. 16 ERA.

Rod Beck had 33 saves, but a 4. 45 ERA and a 5 – 6 record, including nine blown saves.

Only Mark Gardner had more than 10 wins ( 12 – 7, 4. 42 ERA ), and Rod Beck had 35 saves, a 3. 34 ERA and nine losses on his record.

Rod Beck had 37 saves.

The Raiders also had a trio of great linebackers: future Hall of Famer Ted Hendricks, Pro Bowler Rod Martin ( 3 Interceptions ) and standout rookie Matt Millen.

The secondary also had future hall of fame defensive back Rod Woodson, who missed almost the entire season with a knee injury, but returned in time for the playoffs.

The Steeler defense held, however, forcing Dallas into a three-and-out ; after a 6-yard run by Smith and an incompletion, Aikman's third down pass was broken up by defensive back Rod Woodson ( who had missed most of the season due to a knee injury ), forcing the Cowboys to punt.

The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.

A carousel in the middle of Recreation Park once had a carving of Rod Serling's name that has since been painted over.

The Tribune broke the story on Friday, May 29, 2009, that several students had been admitted to the University of Illinois based upon connections or recommendations by the school's Board of Trustees, Chicago politicians, and members of the Rod Blagojevich administration.

He had three siblings, Thomas (" Tommy ," who himself appeared in a few Our Gang episodes as " Dynamite "), Amanda, and Roderick (" Rod ").

Several Canes raised the Cup for the first time in long NHL careers ; Rod Brind ' Amour and Bret Hedican had both played over 15 years without winning the Cup, while Glen Wesley — the last remaining Hartford Whaler on the Hurricanes ' roster — had waited 18 seasons.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

Nasty, however, insisted that he had been misquoted by a slightly deaf journalist, and had actually said they were bigger than Rod, referring to Rod Stewart, then a relative unknown.

Friedkin almost settled for Rod Taylor ( who had actively pursued the role, according to Hackman ), another choice the studio approved, before he went with Hackman.