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 seco...
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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 forw...
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Martin Manulis, a television, film and stage producer who created the classic, Emmy-winning program "Playhouse 90," has died. He was 92.Manulis died Friday of natural causes at his home in Los Ange...
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Antioch College, known for its offbeat approach to education, will close in 2008 because of a money shortage and will try to find enough funds to reopen four years later, the school said Tuesday.En...
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Antioch College trustees agreed Saturday to keep the cash-strapped school open with the help of alumni fundraising, reversing plans to shutter the campus.The plan is contingent on whether alumni an...
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A Stephen King adaptation about a guy alone in a hotel room with some foul presence and a bunch of lost souls sounds like the low-rent version of the author's "The Shining," which had an entire res...
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Submitted for your approval: A 52-year-old man _ an overworked man, a man of words _ receives an advance copy of an upcoming science fiction series from ABC.Warily, he fires up the DVD player, expe...
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Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: "Office of Transition."The placard points Antioch College students to the place that can help the...
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Serling, Rod (1924-1975)
Rod Serling
(Edward) Rod(man) Serling
Critical Essay by Robert Lewis Shayon
TV producer Martin Manulis dies
