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Serling was born on December 25, 1924, in Syracuse, New York, to a Jewish family. [2] He was the second of two sons born to Esther (née Cooper, 1893–1958), a homemaker, and Samuel Lawrence Serling (1892–1945). [3]
Unusually, Serling appears on camera to deliver the closing narration. The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete.
The quote Professor Fowler reads on the statue's plinth, "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity", is the motto of Rod Serling's alma mater Antioch College, and was spoken by its first president Horace Mann at the college's first commencement. Serling accepted a teaching post there after completing this script. [1]
For most people, the name Rod Serling brings to mind his classic science fiction show The Twilight Zone. The Emmy-winning screenwriter and producer, who died in 1975, headed the acclaimed TV ...
His extended script added a number of scenes and even a new protagonist, an FBI agent who investigates Vollmer's neo-Nazi movement, but with The Twilight Zone 's budget already stretched to the breaking point, Serling's proposal was turned down. The scene following Hitler revealing himself was filmed, but the footage has since been lost.
Rod Serling quotes the Shakespearean source of the episode title in his closing narration: "He is come to open the purple testament of bleeding war." He claims the quote is from Richard III , but it actually comes from Richard II .
The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, who died at age 50 in 1975, would have turned 100 this Christmas Day. In addition to launching one of the most recognizable television shows in history, the ...
It's August, 1945, the last grimy pages of a dirty, torn book of war. The place is the Philippine Islands.The men are what's left of a platoon of American infantry, whose dulled and tired eyes set deep in dulled and tired faces can now look toward a miracle, that moment when the nightmare appears to be coming to an end.