He was a highly decorated Combat Vet...
Combat Infantryman Badge
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Army Good Conduct Medal American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with arrowhead device and four campaign stars
World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal
Philippine Liberation Medal with one service star
Glider Badge
Parachutist Badge
Army Presidential Unit Citation Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Rod Serling was a cultural Nastradamus.
A chain smoker . . no, he didn’t smoke chains but smoked a lot of cigarettes.
Been watching reruns of the old TV Western, “the Loner,” starring Lloyd Bridges. It was created and produced by Rod Serling, and he often directed and wrote scripts for episodes. Story wise, it’s fairly standard TV Western fare, but it does have that well-produced, written, and directed tone that is the mark of anything produced by Serling. The acting and writing is always above par, it has good cinematography, and it has kind of a quirky theme song. It’s a very good Western, with a Rod Serling touch.
He created stories that people have been talking about for 60 plus years and will continue to be talked about.
A genius writer who could entertain you and make you think at the same time.
He was great. The show was terrible after Kennedy died. He took it hard. Then he got a second wind with Night Gallery.
But that smoking did him in...
Serling was so ahead of his times. I could watch the Twilight Zone episodes a million times and never tire of them.
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Trump should use that line.
I have a niece who is a marine biologist, and I looked up some old episodes of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau thinking she might be interested, and had probably never heard of it. I was surprised to find that Rod Serling narrated them. I had completely forgotten this.
Serling chain smoked like a chimney. Serling was said to smoke three to four packs of cigarettes a day. Besides the pressures of writing/producing, he also drank heavily to try drown out his World War 2 memories. Serling’s unit (Army 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division) saw heavy combat in the Philippines including battles on Leyte and the liberation of Manila. No wonder that he had a heart attack and age 50 and died.
Great writer, great insights, great American, combat veteran of WW II.
If I remember correctly, Rod Serling was one of the producers for the TV series Playhouse 90 which aired in the late 50’s.
That might have been the inspiration for "A Stop at Willoughby."
Binghamton looks like a twilight zone these days.
Only one statue? I’d put them up all over town. Burgess Meredith on the library steps with his broken glasses and pile of books. Elizabeth Montgomery as the Russian survivor chick. The guy who went looking for Willoughby in a crumpled heap by the railroad tracks. Buster Keaton with the time travel gadget. The beautiful “ugly” woman and her plastic surgeons. And the guy yelling that “To Serve Mankind” is a cookbook.
Serling was the original “WOKEster.” His scripts are full of Socialist themes.
“Walking Distance” ⏳
