Serling began his employed professional writing career in 1950, when he earned $ 75 a week as a network continuity writer for WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio.

) From the second season onward, Serling began to appear on-screen at the start of each episode.

Andy Serling, a native of Saratoga Springs, New York, has been a familiar face and voice around New York tracks since he began following the races while still a child.

Prototype testing proved successful on Steve Dallas who, after finding his skin a little darker, believed that he had ventured into The Twilight Zone and began looking for Rod Serling in the bushes.

He began with Forbidden Area ( October 4, 1956 ), adapted by Serling from the Pat Frank novel about Soviet sabotage, following with Rendezvous in Black ( October 25, 1956 ), adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel of twisted revenge ; Eloise ( November 22, 1956 ), adapted from the book by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight ; and The Family Nobody Wanted ( December 20, 1956 ), from the Helen Doss book about a childless couple who adopt a dozen children of mixed ancestry, a book brought to TV again in 1975.

Serling drew on his own experience for many episodes, frequently about boxing, military life, and airplane pilots.

Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, started his military career here in 1943.

As part of his studies, Serling became active in the campus radio station, work experience which was often useful in his future career.

As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.

Serling as a senior in high school, 1943.

However, the U. S. was involved in World War II at the time, and Serling decided to enlist rather than start college immediately after he graduated from Binghamton Central High School in 1943.

Serling and his family had a summer home at Cayuga Lake.

Rod's older brother, author Robert, recalled that at the age of six or seven, Serling entertained himself for hours by acting out dialogue from pulp magazines or movies he'd seen.

Serling was interested in radio and writing at an early age.

Serling was wounded and three comrades were killed by shrapnel from rounds fired at his roving demolition team by an anti-aircraft gun.

After being discharged from the Army in 1946, Serling worked at a rehabilitation hospital while recovering from his wounds.

Serling started at the bottom, with no writing credits, no published work and no hands-on experience.

While attending college, Serling worked at the Antioch Broadcasting System ’ s radio workshop and was managing the station within a couple of years.

In addition to earning $ 45 to $ 50 a week at the college radio station, Serling attempted to make a living selling freelance scripts to radio programs, but the industry at that time was involved in many lawsuits, which affected willingness to take on new writers ( some who had scripts rejected would often hear a similar plot produced, claim their work had been stolen and sue for recompense ).

Serling said of his time as a staff writer for radio: “ From a writing point of view, radio ate up ideas that might have put food on the table for weeks at a future freelancing date.

A New York Times television reviewer added this editorial note at the end of a glowing review for A Town Has Turned to Dust, a show about racism and bigotry in a small Southwestern town: "' Playhouse 90 ' and Mr. Serling had to fight executive interference ... before getting their play on the air last night.

The man goes to a psychiatrist and, after the session, the twist ending ( a device which Serling became known for using ) reveals the " patient " had died at Pearl Harbor, and the psychiatrist was the one actually having the vivid dreams.

Similar themes would be explored in " A Stop at Willoughby ", " The Brain Center at Whipple's " and two Serling teleplays from before and after The Twilight Zone: Patterns and the Night Gallery episode " They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar ".

" Once Renard opens the paper and looks at the racing page, several in-jokes are apparent in the names of the listed jockeys, which include " Serling ", " Clemens " ( referencing director of photography George Clemens ), " Houghton " ( referencing producer Buck Houghton ), " Butler " ( referencing set decorator Rudy Butler ) and " Denault " ( referencing assistant director Edward Denault ).

In a short film pitching the Twilight Zone series to a Dutch television station, creator Rod Serling claimed to have gotten the idea for " Mirror Image " following an encounter at an airport.

Serling noticed a man at the other side of the terminal who wore the same clothes and carried the same suitcase as himself ; Serling considered what would happen if the man turned around and was revealed to be a duplicate of himself.

Said Rod Serling at the time ( quoted in The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree ):

This is also one of only two episodes of the entire series where Serling appears on camera at the conclusion of the episode ( the other episode was the last broadcast episode of the second season " The Obsolete Man ").

" Stuart Reynolds, a television producer, threatened to sue Serling for the use of the name because at the time he was selling an educational film of the same name to public schools.

The camera then moves to show Rod Serling standing at the top of the basement steps.

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.

After finding an AWOL Ilario, Serling discovers that Monfriez wanted to escape under cover of darkness, which would have meant leaving Rady behind.

Numerous novelizations were published based upon episodes of Twilight Zone, as were several volumes of original short stories published under the Twilight Zone brand and edited by Rod Serling himself.

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.

Serling returned from the successful mission in Leyte with two wounds ( including one to his kneecap ), but neither kept him from combat when General Douglas MacArthur used the paratroopers for their typical purpose on February 3, 1945.

Under pressure from the White House and his commander, Brigadier General Hershberg ( Michael Moriarty ), to wrap things up quickly, Serling leaks the story to newspaper reporter Tony Gartner ( Scott Glenn ) to prevent another cover up.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

In addition, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner ( which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 ; Bridges pulled out in disagreement over the violent content of the show ), and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport ( 1970 / 71 ) and a Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester ( 1975 – 76 ).

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

The two men are her boyfriend Rockliffe Fellowes and her father Ford Serling, with Leslie Fenton playing the greedy rich man whom she agrees to live with in order to get away from her father and lover.

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.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

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.

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.

Serling depicts a similar scenario in " The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance ," which shows a young child is carving his name into a carousel modeled after the one in Recreation Park.

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.

Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings ( by artist Tom Wright ) that depicted the stories.

Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself.

Serling wrote many of the teleplays, including " Camera Obscura ", " The Caterpillar " ( based on a short story by Oscar Cook ), " Class of ' 99 ", " Cool Air " ( based on a short story by H. P.

By the final season, Serling, stung by criticism and ignored by the show's executives, all but disowned the series.

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.