Enjoy the History Author ShowTime breakdown of the classic TZ episode The Dummy here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2iupZKulJbSoZc.html

@manp1039

Жыл бұрын

i was doing an acestry for rod serling and i learned that from 1920s through 1940 census rod's house hade at least 3 different servents (one in each census). i presume his family was quite wealthy to be able to afford a servent.

@yvoncormier9762

7 ай бұрын

This interview was heart candy for a lifelong Rod Serling fan. Thank you for interviewing Anne Serling, and especially for sharing the fruits of your love and labor here on KZread.

I grew up in the 70’s & 80’s watching Twilight Zone re-runs during the holiday marathon weekends. Everything about the show made me a fan for life. I watch the dvd box set episodes with my daughter today in 2024 & have done so for years, she too is a fan. Then, as social media & the internet brought us streaming, I found recordings of his speaking engagements & was blown away a second time, wow!! What an intelligent & inspiring insight??!!?? I cant wait to read this book. Thank u for sharing ur personal moments with ur father.

Anne, if your Dad only knew that one day you would remember him in the way that you have through your book he would be overwhelmed by your love. Such a beautiful thing you have done. I am so enjoying your discussion in this video. Thank you so much for remembering. Now I get a chance to feel part of the Serling family. And, yes, I have your book! Wonderfully written indeed!

Anne, I also suddenly lost my beloved father when he was 48 and I had just turned sweet 16! Although 51 years have passed since his fatal car accident, the raw depth of my grief has remained.

I've got the audio book mp3 cd 💿. Constantly on in the car when I'm driving alone. Its comforting listening more than anything. Read lovely by Anne herself x

@historyauthorshow

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to post your kind comments. I will definitely let Anne know next time I speak to her. I've been so pleased and humbled to stay in touch with her, and do some small part to promote and protect her father's legacy. -Dean

Just a fun side note, I think the mistake people make attempting to create new Twilight Zone products (film, new episode series,etc) is the insistence to ‘update’ the look. The black & white, the early special effects, along with much more, r all part of the charm…..even the spookiness. I wish there were new episodes, new stories, produced EXACTLY like the originals. The only CGI required should b post production treatments to match the older episodes. I dont think any weekly show has ever been approached this way. The intentional re-creation of the past with new stories. Well, I can dream…..lol

This is directed at more at the host, not at Serling’s lovely daughter. Serling actually “came up” with the idea of the Statue of Liberty as a climax for THE PLANET OF THE APES after having noticed Schomberg’s artwork on a 1964 cover of AMAZING STORIES. I’m not really sure how genuine that Serling’s love of sf actually was. It is more than a little well-known that he only paid lip-service to the genre because he wanted to get out weighty and (to him) important political messages that mainstream drama was too timid to touch. But I think he didn’t respect sf all that much, nor did he care when he “lifted” ideas from other authors. “The After Hours,” which is credited solely to him, was actually based upon a John Collier story entitled “Evening Primrose.” The acclaimed “Where Is Everybody?” was partly lifted from the work of Ray Bradbury. The script that “made” Rod Serling (a drama entitled PATTERNS) is well known to have been significantly overhauled by the script’s story editor and the script’s eventual director before it went before the cameras (it was, of course, credited to Serling alone). The writer Charles Beaumont (a man of great integrity who only used his own ideas when writing stories) would later claim that Serling lifted several of his ideas for early scripts that never attempted to credit him as a contributor. The Sy Ginsberg case, however, is one of the most oppressive incidents in Serling’s biography, as both “The Storm” and “The Messiah on Mott Street” were both working ideas in Gomberg’s head before Serling “lifted” them for use in his own scripts. I think of Serling not as a writer but more as an ad man, a spokesman, a seller of himself. I do not deny that he helped an emerging generation of younger creatives gain an entryway into tales of the occult, fantasy and horror by way of his TV work, but television (much like film, commercial radio, and live theater), unlike literature, dates itself right out of the gate. THE TWILIGHT ZONE may still stand up for younger viewers, but it is a preachy, silly, and ultimately overly dramatic show. Television is a commercial medium, and if Serling was attempting to get art through the door he was in the wrong domain for that. In dictating (rather than ✍️) his own stuff, Serling undeniably got caught up in a stream-of-consciousness scenario in which he was just freely borrowing ideas from everywhere (but, since he had had access to all of the books that Bradbury gave him, we cannot discount this activity as possible plagiarism). I’m sure Serling was a nice guy overall. A tough guy too, maybe a little crazy in his paratrooper days. I’m sure he was fun to hang around, especially since he attracted ladies right and left. But to think of him as a writer I think gives one the wrong impression. Serling hungered for fame and attention. Somehow, I don’t think he would have been content to sit in his basement reading, and pounding out literary stuff on his Royal. The man needed to move too quickly, and he seemed to lack the equipment required to be taken seriously as a writer.

I swear I thought his daughter in the thumbnail was jenelle evans from teen mom........is his daughter aware if her dad attended neville goddard lectures with lucille ball at all?