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.

Serling was born December 25, 1924, into a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York, the second of two sons born to Esther ( née Cooper ) and Samuel Lawrence Serling.

Serling, still a Private after three years, caught the attention of Sergeant Lewis when he ran into the line of fire to rescue a performer who had been onstage when the artillery started firing.

Several years later, Serling adapted this and other episodes into short stories for a book, Stories From the Twilight Zone.

While Carol Serling was having good luck nearby, he became enslaved by a merciless one-armed bandit, an incident he would turn into one of his first Twilight Zone episodes.

At the foot of the staircase in the Loren mansion — as Dr. Loren and the robot servants walk out of camera range, Rod Serling moves into view behind them:

" Liz screams and runs back into the elevator as the camera pans to the left to reveal Rod Serling standing and speaking in front of the entrance:

When Serling visits Walden's crew chief, Sergeant Altameyer ( Seth Gilliam ), who is dying of cancer in a hospital, Altameyer manages to get some words out, further confusing Serling, before self-medicating himself into unconsciousness.

When Serling puts pressure on Monfriez during a car ride, Monfriez forces him to get out of the vehicle at gunpoint, then commits suicide by driving into an oncoming train.

It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner.

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.

As Playhouse 90 moved into 1957, Frankenheimer directed a science fiction drama, The Ninth Day ( January 10, 1957 ), by Howard and Dorothy Baker, about a small group of World War III survivors and a Serling original, The Comedian ( February 14, 1957 ), featuring Mickey Rooney as an abrasive, manipulative television comedian.

The parts set in the 1890s have no sound, silent film intertitle cards ( except, of course, for Rod Serling saying " Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase ' Out of the frying pan, into the fire '.

" It is unfortunate that Mr. Serling has allowed a saccharine romance to intrude into this self-sufficient and wholly masculine situation.

She is initially introduced as a member of the League of Shadows who is sent to assassinate Serling Roquette, a young science prodigy who had previously been kidnapped and coerced into working with for the League.

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.

For his service to the U. S. Army, Private Serling was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and the Philippine Liberation Medal.

After selling the scripts, Serling had no further involvement with them ; they were sold by Crosley to local stations across the U. S ..

The U. S. Department of Defense withdrew its cooperation for the film so the tanks Serling commanded early in the film were British Centurions shipped from Australia with sheet metal added to make them resemble M1A1 Abrams.

Their next album, Extensions ( 1979 ), earned the group their second U. S. popular music success — the disco hit " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone ", written by Alan Paul and Jay Graydon as a tribute to the 1960s CBS television series created by Rod Serling.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In his book, The Evolution of the Weird Tale, S. T. Joshi titled his chapter on Serling " The Moral Supernatural " and spoke of how difficult it is to categorize Serling's writings.

In " Panther Phobia Manifesto ", Falco referenced lines from influences as disparate as William S. Burroughs, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, Howlin ' Wolf, Rod Serling, French psychedelic band The Dum Dum Boys, and Dadaist poet Louis Aragon, in wishing a " huge firedamp explosion " to closed-minded members of society who blindly follow the dictates of the establishment.

With the help of Iron Munro and Serling Roquette, an employee of S. T. A. R.