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Serling, Rod (1924-1975)
Best known as the host of television's The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling was a prolific author of live teleplays and television scripts who did much to raise the artistic ...
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"You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination--next stop, the Twilight Zone...
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Rod Serling left behind an impressive body of work for television. Hundreds of his teleplays were aired during his twenty-five-year career. By comparison, his writing for the screen seems slight--he w...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lewis Shayon
Murder was brilliantly done on the (NBC) Kraft Television Theatre in January and repeated "by popular demand" early in February. The unplanned secon...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lewis Shayon
The new Rod Serling teleplay, Certain Honorable Men,… presented no acts of physical violence. But an uglier form of violence—the suppression of the ...
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Critical Essay by J. P. Shanley
Rod Serling, whose compactly constructed television drama, "Patterns," was acclaimed three months ago, turned to a different kind of theme in "The ...
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Critical Essay by J. P. Shanley
Since Mr. Serling also wrote "Patterns" and "The Rack." two of the outstanding television plays of this year, there was reason to look forwa...
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