Rod Serling

Syfy’s Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule (With Links for Cordcutters)

It’s that time of year again. Syfy’s Independence Day Twilight Zone marathon is upon us. But if you got spoiled by Syfy’s epic marathon of all 156 episodes over New Year’s, I’ve got some bad news for you: They’re only airing 57 episodes this weekend. We’ve still got the entire schedule below. There are plenty…

io9 Matt Novak Jul 1

Rod Serling’s Thoughts About Children’s Imagination Make for a Lovely Animation

Thanks to PBS Digital Studios and its series Blank on Blank, we have this beautiful animation of an interview with The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling. His ideas about science fiction, children, and imagination all get expressed in a wonderful way. The interview is from 1963, with Serling explaining the show on an Australian radio show.…

Television Katharine Trendacosta May 27

Syfy’s Twilight Zone Marathon: Your Guide to All 156 Episodes (With Links For Cordcutters)

Every year the Syfy channel plays a Twilight Zone marathon over New Year’s. But this year they’re starting the festivities early. The first episode airs at 7pm this Wednesday, December 30th. We’ve compiled a schedule so you can catch your favorites, along with links to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon for all you cordcutters. The good…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 28

Twilight Zone Exhibit Opens In Rod Serling’s Hometown

A new Twilight Zone exhibit opened this week at the Bundy Museum of History and Art in Binghamton, New York. And we all have just six months to check it out. The items on display come from the personal collection of Mike Pipher, a collector who has amassed the world’s largest collection of Twilight Zone…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 16

Remembering Rod Serling And the Debut of The Twilight Zone

On this day in 1959, American TV audiences embarked on a trip to a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. This first journey to the middle ground between light and shadow was a powerful voyage we still haven’t forgotten. It was the first time we caught a glimpse of The Twilight…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Oct 2

Witness the Tragedy of the World’s Last Reader With The Twilight Zone

Old troves and the newly-discovered intrigue around them was sort of our theme today, what with the discovery of decades-old Atari game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill. It’s a theme that always gets me thinking of one of The Twilight Zone’s most influential episodes: “Time Enough at Last.” Henry Bemis is a beleaguered bookworm…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Apr 26

J.J. Abrams will resurrect Rod Serling’s famous lost screenplay

J.J. Abrams is adding another TV show to his long list of projects. Bad Robot has acquired the long-stalled screenplay penned by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling. Abrams will develop the project as a potential miniseries — no word if Abrams is adapting or directing the project himself, but it will have a home…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 5

The aliens are coming back today!

In 1975 a movie (narrated by Rod Serling) called The Outer Space Connection, based on the book, was released. The book claimed that the aliens would return to earth on December 24, 2011. Oh look, that’s today! A July 29, 1975 Redlands Daily Facts (Redlands, CA) article about the release of the movie appears below.…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 24

The New Twilight Zone Movie: Just a Generic Spooky Action Thriller?

Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and the U.S. remake of Let The Right One In, is in final talks to direct the new Twilight Zone movie. And he could be making it as soon as next summer. But it won’t be what you might be expecting from a film adaptation of Rod Serling’s television series.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 16

What if Luke Skywalker was that creepy telekinetic boy from The Twilight Zone?

YouTube video editor OneMinuteGalactica is best known for his science fiction instructional videos, and now he’s tossed the classic Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” into a galaxy far, far away. On Tatooine, there are no cornfields. https://gizmodo.com/brilliant-youtube-series-mashes-up-classic-scifi-with-c-5758929 [Via Buzzfeed]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 5

Bring back The Twilight Zone right now!

The Twilight Zone left an indelible mark on pop culture, but it’s been years since we made a new journey to that dimension of sight and sound. Peter Hall argues that we need Rod Serling’s vision now more than ever. Yesterday was a momentous day for fans of science fiction. Why? Because The Twilight Zone:…

Television Peter Hall -- Hollywood.com Sep 15

Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone: We failed frequently, but we created more than we imitated

A never-before-seen interview with Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling is hypnotic viewing, as he talks honestly about the show’s successes and failures in that deep, reflective voice that narrated your childhood. University of Kansas professor James Gunn interviewed Serling in 1970 for his Centron film series “Science Fiction in Literature,” but the interview never appeared…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 30

The 10 Weirdest Twilight Zone Villains

So tomorrow is Twilight Zone Day. In honor of this inexplicable holiday, here are the underappreciated baddies of the Serlingverse. Never mind psychokinetic children who’ll turn you into a jack-in-the-box. We’re talking evil genies who’ll turn you into Hitler! Just FYI, this article contains spoilers for episodes that aired almost 40 years ago. Just saying.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 10

The Latest Tales from the Twilight Zone

In honor of the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone, Carol Serling has released a new collection of stories written in the style of the television series. Expect demonic casinos, evil experiments in suburbia, and lots and lots of murder. Carol Serling, Rod Serling‘s widow and a consultant on later Twilight Zone projects, has collected…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 2

6 Important Life Lessons From The Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone turns 50 years old today, so to celebrate here are the most important moral lessons we learned from this ground-breaking anthology series. For example: You should never trust an alien. The End of The World Isn’t The Worst Thing That Can Happen The Twilight Zone loved to threaten us with the end of…

Television Meredith Woerner Oct 2

DiCaprio Pulls a New Writer into the Twilight Zone

At long last, Leonardo DiCaprio has hired a screenwriter for his big-screen adaptation of The Twilight Zone. His choice has cut his teeth writing science fiction and horror, and has a surprising credit in softcore porn. It’s been a year since we first announced that DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, was hunting down scripts for…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 20

William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Spook Country author William Gibson and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling will be turned into life-size animatronic statues, which at some point will gain sentience and battle to the death. At least, that’ll be the case if the Science Fiction Hall Of Fame is as animatronic-happy as the Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame, which it really…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 2

Must See: The Twilight Zone

Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Must see by James Rocchi. Twilight Zone Date: 1959-1964 Vitals: Rod Serling’s anthology series was shoddy, cheap, uneven — and the biggest blast of sci-fi to…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 24

Syfy’s Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule (With Links for Cordcutters)

Rod Serling’s Thoughts About Children’s Imagination Make for a Lovely Animation

Syfy’s Twilight Zone Marathon: Your Guide to All 156 Episodes (With Links For Cordcutters)

Twilight Zone Exhibit Opens In Rod Serling’s Hometown

Remembering Rod Serling And the Debut of The Twilight Zone

Witness the Tragedy of the World’s Last Reader With The Twilight Zone

J.J. Abrams will resurrect Rod Serling’s famous lost screenplay

The aliens are coming back today!

The New Twilight Zone Movie: Just a Generic Spooky Action Thriller?

What if Luke Skywalker was that creepy telekinetic boy from The Twilight Zone?

Bring back The Twilight Zone right now!

Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone: We failed frequently, but we created more than we imitated

The 10 Weirdest Twilight Zone Villains

The Latest Tales from the Twilight Zone

6 Important Life Lessons From The Twilight Zone

DiCaprio Pulls a New Writer into the Twilight Zone

William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Must See: The Twilight Zone

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