Dead at 50 - The Life and Sad Ending® of Rod Serling
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
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A mini bio on the life and career of Rod Serling. His most famously created the TV Show "The Twilight Zone". 
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He started off this genre and set the bar very high. The man was a genius.
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For me, Rod Serling will always be remembered for "The Twilight Zone." He was an exceptionally gifted host, even his voice sound enhanced the show! "Night Gallery," was good, but no show can compete with "The Twilight Zone," and come out on top.
To this day I still watch the reruns of the Twilight Zone
I am a Twilight Zone fanatic! Every New Year's Eve, the marathon is on TV. Rod was way before his time. RIP
Do u have a favorite episode that sticks out?
.. I have 1, of many, " The After Hours".
So right you are, in Europe few people knows him and I m sure we need his words now!
@@brando7266- Two - is perfect for our days, - Walking Distance - is good for people who move out from the past and forget it, - The Gift - speaks about the coming back of Him -
I hope we will recognise him this time
I can't sit on an airplane without thinking of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
Yes that was quite an episode.
One of Shatners best roles!
The woman on the plane with him was Christine White, a close friend of James Dean.
@@williamlarochelle6833 Christine was on the rifleman and bonanza.
Only 50??? Cripes o mighty! I can watch old episodes again and again they never get old. Plus you can see so many stars before we knew them.
This coming Christmas will mark the centennial of his birth.
Try smoking 50 cigarettes every day for a 50 years
He was a creative genius. He and I lived on opposite sides of the same lake. Thanks Steve.
"A Stop at Willoughby" really hits home for me. Didn't see the significance when I was younger, but now at 60, I can relate. Another one with a similar plot is "Walking Distance." You just don't know how good life was as a youngster.
My life was terrible as a child, which turned out to be good because I don't wish to go back to the old days.
Willoughby Ohio used to do a Last stop Willoughby celebration. A couple of times Rod Serling's daughter attended. I don't think they do it anymore.
I had a surgery professor who told us in a lecture that "you cannot escape the results of chronic tobacco use over a multi-year period." It causes loss of circulation in many internal structures and organs. As well as chronic vasoconstriction. He told us we will see this among all patients who use tobacco over a multi-year period. It is inescapable.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
Retired surgeon
Very deadly
Death’s Head Revisited was a truly well-written and well-acted episode. It is unforgettable.
That Billy Mummy Twilight Zone episode scares me to this day. Another favorite is the next stop is Willoughby episode. I did not realize Serling died so young. I Also did not know his background. But three packs a day will do it to you, I guess...Excellent episode, Steve!
I am 63, Willoughby episode has stayed with me all theses years since I was a little boy.
“Willoughby” is my favorite followed by “the bewitching pool” and “nothing in the dark.” I love the twilight zone and these particular episodes gave hope.
I liked a lot of episodes but the one with Burgess Meredith playing the man who just wanted to read was a favorite!
Another example of a very talented and productive person dying at a (relatively) young age because of smoking. It really is mind bogging to me how people could assume it was not harmful to your health and so widely accepted in society. I hope someday, smoking is completely eradicated. I know that is naive, but I still hope.
Doctors were encouraged to smoke while at medical school, especially a pipe as that added a air of intelligence to their appearance ,so patients would listen to their counsel . Also as nicotine is a stimulant and appetite suppressant , smoking was encouraged with the soldiers and on the homefront . Remember food was rationed. The soldiers were issued cigarettes in their meal packets.
Everyone smoked almost as part of the war effort, it was one of the few pleasures you could have. Little wonder movies from the 1940's - late 1970's had smoking everywhere by every actor. Right up to COLOMBO , with his constant cigar ...
Rod Serling , was a combat experienced paratrooper , smoking would have been the most normal thing in his world ... Serling also volunteered for experimental parachute testing as a way to earn extra money to keep writing ...
I absolutely disagree with your statement that smoking should be eradicated. I guess prohibition didn't teach you anything. It's not the government's business to tell people what to do.
Ever here what the government did in New York to people who ignored prohibition...they poisoned the alchohol and murdered 10,000 people and got away with it.
Military handed out cigarettes during WW2 and many got hooked. Stress does that. Getting SHOT at does that, and seeing civilians even if you don't see action can mess you up.
@sdcoinshooter I’m with you on smoking being eradicated some day. But not through governments prohibiting it. Australia leads the way in forcing smokers to quit by high tax on tobacco products. A pack of 20 cigarettes averages at A$55 (US$36), luxury brands up to $60 or more. Australia is the most expensive country in the world in which to smoke. (New Zealand isn’t far behind.)
It’s working too. Hardly anyone smokes in Australia, and those that do must be spending so much on ciggies that they’re missing out on other things.
@@MK-ft3qt Absolutely right, although if heavy smoking did Serling in I wish he hadn't.
I am 60 years old, and I remember watching Night Gallery with my papa. Always gave me the shivers, but oh so good. RIP Mr. Serling, and thank you for your service, and your many years of entertaining us ❤
I just started watching some Twilight Zone re runs just recently ...not only do they hold up extremely well for an over 60 year old show.. but they reflect a lot of the current issues we see now. Gotta say Rod was in my opinion a genius.
Watched one of my fav's just last night. Anne Francis(Honey West) plays a woman who comes to a Department Store to buy her Mother a gold thimble. She soon discovers she's a mannequin that was on a 1 month furlough and forgot about what she truly was. It is chilling to see mannequin's come alive to bring her back into the fold. Maybe, if you haven't already done it, you can do an episode about her..... Beautiful AND talented. 😀😀😀😀
Good one!
Met Rod Serling when I was working security at the Atlanta Airport, Serling had almost forgotten his brief case and a friend of mine said don't worry it is just a bad dream which caused Serling to laugh out loud!
Met his daughter in Palm Springs in 2021. She was lovely and absolutely adored her father. She made Rod seem more of a person than just an entertainment icon. Her book “As I knew him:My Dad Rod Serling” is a great read for any Rod Serling/Twilight Zone fans.
I’ll check out her book.
Three packs a day was excessive even by 1960s standards. Vices ruin lives, whether it's smoking, drinking, drugs. Very few people have enriched the world with such great talent as Rod Serling. it is very sad that he shortened his own life with reckless disregard for his health. RIP
Without a doubt
“Little Girl Lost “
So surreal
He helped to create the finest TV series in TV history.❤
Rod's own secretary said that he smoked five packs a day, and always had a cigarette in his hand. He already looked ten years older than his true age when Twilight Zone began.
I can understand smoking a little but 5 packs a day is INSANE! You'd be saturated with smoke!!
Such a brilliant mind and definetly gone too soon. Just about every episode of his shows were favorites. The dollhouse, Creature Outside The Plane, Gambling machine addict and others. I grew up around smokers, never smoked myself. But three packs a day. Guess he was always busy creating he needed something. Brilliant mind. Good video and thank you.
Great comment! (Not being sarcastic, just truthful)
The show is regarded as the best TV show of the 20th century.
He sold it to CBS for $600K never Considering the re-run money.
And of course having no idea that one day there would be home video, DVD'S and blue ray...etc
3 packs a day. Can you imagine? OMG!
A brilliant, brilliant man who left his family and the world to soon.
600 grand US in the mid=sixties would buy you ...... !!! Ten million today? 15??
Shatner and the wing demon was classic, a fave indeed.
I can hear Rod Serling laughing in the background as he says, "Welcome to the Twilight Zone"
Some of my teachers in school believed I would not amount to anything because they all said that I was such a procrastinator. I looked him right in the eye and said oh yeah you just wait and see.
Many stars and future stars had roles in many of his stories. A young fella by the name of Robert Redford comes to mind....
Yes and it was so awesome too!
Theirs was a different medium, but movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert agreed that the chief difference between a good movie and a bad movie is not the acting, not the directing, not the special effects--it's the writing. And this explains the greatness of "The Twilight Zone" as well. Serling's writing made you think even as it entertained you. I honestly doubt anything will ever reach the same height again.
Stirling Silliphant, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling-three giants from the golden age of incisive and probing television writing. The likes of which we will probably never see again. Serling’s “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar” is an indelible teleplay that I’ll never forget my initial viewing of.
Escape Clause, A Game of Pool, The Whole Truth, Deaths-Head Revisited, Printer's Devil, The Masks, to name but a few. The Twilight Zone never gets old.
I really liked the episode Desth heads revisited especially the ending words by rod serling .
He would turn 100 this Christmas!
The Twilight Zone was a cornerstone of my childhood and helped to shape the way I viewed society and justice. An all time classic.
I dedicate last 3 years of my life to the mission of spreading Rod Serling words around RUclips. From first day I saw him I understand what was needed. This man was unique and the new generation needs to know him more and more. He create something special something cannot die, he sacrifice his health maybe for that but we are here and we will never forget his mission! And we will continue with him near us, from up there!!!!❤
Decorated World War 2 hero! First volunteer pilot. To help develop the ejector seat. For fighter aircraft. He saved countless lives; involving, military fighter pilots. With his contributions to the fighter aurcraft ejector seat. Genius writer. A true hero and Renaissance man!
Very good mini-bio. He was an incredible mind. Watched all of the TZ and Night Gallery episodes and loved the swerves he supplied in them.
Rod spent a lot of time as a young man in Binghamton, NY, near where I live. A few of his episodes were filmed here as well. I wish I had known him, his storytelling was wonderful.
I had no idea that Rod Serling attended Antioch college in Yellow Springs, which is less than an hour from where I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. And you are right; the Twilight Zone was way ahead of its time and remains one of my favorite programs. I love your videos. I just subscribed.
My respect for him rises.
Thanks Steve.
It’s a tradition in my household to watch the New Year’s eve marathon while I cook a special meal. My three kids who are now adults take part in this tradition, even though they don’t live at home anymore.
This guy was so articulate. I loved his introduction to each episode.
I even have a Twilight Zone hoodie ❤
RIP Rod,
Next stop……the Twilight Zone.
I've only seen a handful of the original series episodes but "Obsolete Man" really stands out.
Everything Rod Serling did professionally was quality TV programming and done in good taste. What sticks out in my mind was the 1961 episode of _The Shelter._ It gives me the creeps to this day!
He was great. His writing was amazing. So sad cigarettes took him at 50 years old. You can see how much the cigarettes Progressed his aging. In the later pictures you showed.i hate smoking. Sorry if I offended anyone
The Hunt stands out as one of my favorite TZ episodes. Still love and watch the original TZ tv show. Take Care. --Mae in L.A.
Is that the one with the old man and his dog? Love that one.
I grew up in Pacific Palisades, home to many movie stars and a future President. I went to school with Rod Serling’s daughter who was one of the worst people I’ve ever known. She really thought she was all that and a cup of tea and constantly did really mean things to other students like take a wad of chewing gum and squishing in the hair of a girl that had the most beautiful long hair - she ultimately had to have her hair cut off. She was absolutely horrible and from those that knew her better the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
In the Rod Serling biography, “Rod Serling: The Dreams and Nightmares of Life in the Twilight Zone” by Joel Engle, he wrote that Serling had a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit!
In fact, he often felt intensive pain in his fingertips since the nicotine reduced the blood flow to the capillaries.
He's the reason I'm a huge fan of sci-fi/horror anthology series. RIP ❤
What a loss! Thanks Steve--and let's not forget it was Serling who gave us the earth shattering twist in the Planet of the Apes
Yes, I should have mentioned that. Damn me all to hell!
Thanks, never knew that.
Wow I loved The Twilight Zone and still watch the reruns. I never knew he won 6 Emmys.. he surpassed all expectations by a mile !!
Once again to the greatest generation. I’m a baby boomer and I miss them. They taught me a lot. Rod S. I always looked forward for the T. Zone.
I am from Rochester. I remember when he passed away, here. Many of the towns in his shows were from western NY.
Serling was a fantastic writer.
He understood the shortcomings of man.
He understood that history repeats itself and did what he could to prevent terrible mistakes from happening again.
He was an empathetic soul.
A genuinely good man.
He was addicted to nicotine.
If he had lived....he would have no doubt wrote about his battle with that drug.
Judgment Night, the story of a German U-boat commander that relives the night of his victims every night in his dreams, is my favorite episode of The Twilght Zone. The Four of Us are Dying is another favorite.
Earl Holloman's role as the Only Man Left On Earth(paraphrasing) was my all time favorite, with Burgess Meredith's roles at a close second.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was a Twilight Zone show that I often think about, so if I had to choose, that would be my favorite episode.
I worked with a guy who was a 5 pack a day smoker, Lucky Strikes unfiltered, back when smoking was allowed in the office. He died from lung cancer at 53, but he looked at least 70!
Twilight zone was a well thought out series. The stories were riveting. They gave new actors, such as Charles Bronson, Leonard Nimoy, and Elizabeth Montgomery a launching pad for their acting careers.
I remember Night Gallery. I loved that show.
Another great show, thank you for sharing this with us!
Watching the reruns, I see many stars in when they were just starting their careers. I remember Night Gallery. But, Twight Zone was my favorite. Never knew what to expect.
Thank you for a very nice review. I was a Twilight Zone fan as a kid and saw almost every episode as it was released on TV. I recognize every one of the clips you posted. Some of the episodes frightened me so badly that I was terrified to go to sleep. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet was one such episode.
Amazed that The Twilight Zone wasn't successful. I'd have thought it would have been extremely popular.
There’s so many episodes that I love. The episode with the gambling addiction who has the slot machine following him, the episode where the woman is pressured to be beautiful to look like everyone else and he ends by talking about plastic surgery(still happens today ). The episode where everyone looks like pigs and the outcast is beautiful. The one with the black boxer and the little boy that believed in him …so many. That’s all I can think of for now. My parents always watched it on the holidays when the had the marathon and it would come on for 24 hours.
Rod was brilliant, I believe he stands in the Pantheon of the greatest writers and producers. He won the Bronze Star, holy crap! That is not an easy medal to be awarded and now I understand some of his episodes better. My personal favorite episode is "The Howling Man"; I've watched it no less than 50 times. I was once a three pack a day smoker, it's tough habit to give up.
Oh gosh, there were two that stuck out in my mind, the one with William Shatner and he saw a creature on the airplane wing. Then there was one about the ear wig in the Night Galley, that one really scared me.
Many favorite episodes.....The Trade ins, To Serve Man,...Time Enough At Last....The Man Who Was Never Born....etc
Reminds me of Yul Brenner looking into the camera and saying; " Don't Smoke. Whatever you do Don't Smoke:
Serling did more with his 50 years than most men would do with five lifetimes.
I only got to know "The Twilight Zone" through re-runs, but remember watching "Night Gallery" on live TV when I was a little kid. It aired on a school night and it was a big deal that my mom let me watch it. To this day, I am haunted by the episode where a man begs to be put in a beautiful, serene painting and unbeknownst to him, they switched the paintings and he was forever cast into a hellish torture painting. Thanks for the great bio.
I had the honor of seeing him and his daughter at the old strand theater in thomsville CT it was at intermission in the lobby talked with him an daughter great guy glad I was there with my friends that Saturday night
Thanks, Ed, for covering Rod Serling. I was saddened when he passed at only 50. So many good shows between Twilight Zone and Night Gallery...❤
Ed?
Never knew anything about his life or serving in the war. Very creative. Love all his stories that he thought of. Passed away to young. At least, the world enjoys his works and stories. TY
Thanks Much . RIP ROD STERLING Twilight Zone so darn good❤🔥😍 Genius
A Stop at Willoughby and Time Enough at Last are 2 of my favorites, though I enjoyed so many more episodes. Serling was decades before his time. Today, the Twilight Zone would still be relevant because he took common themes about the human condition and put a sci-fi spin to them. The Twilight Zone would be a blockbuster hit if it were in production today.
So sad that another bright light was snuffed out by cigarettes.
📺I still watch THE TWILIGHT ZONE usually before bed.
The Howling Man is my favorite episode.
I love the Twilight Zone. Even decades ago when i never really knew much about it there were some video cassette at this video rental joint and i knew they would be interesting so i borrowee them and the episode i watched was the evil doll with Telly Savalas and the ufo cook book episode. Eventually around 15 years ago i found the dvd box set and bkughtb the entire series which instill watch. Theres so many episodes i love about a dozen or so. Hes alive, midnight sun, on Thursday we leave for home, 5 characters in search of an exit, the one where the guy keeps dreaming every night hes sentenced to death A nice place to visit, ceaser and me, all the Burges Meredith episodes are great and plenty more.
Great job. Excellent video. He was a genius & left us way too soon. The Twilight Zone was one of my favorite shows & will go on forever. How bout ' The Man in the Bottle " or Probe 7. Over & Out". There's just so many great ones. RIP Rod. You were one of the best.
Three packs a day has to take an enormous toll on one's body. And think of all the second hand smoke his family, friends and co-workers had to endure.
Kick the Can "Sunnyvale Rest, a place where people have forgotten that youth, maturity, and old age are curiously intertwined and not separate."
To Serve Man is what I'm living to see!
I'm more of a casual viewer of Twilight Zone. But it's amazing. And kind of scary 😨 as a kid.
My Dad would have also turned 100 this year. He smoked 🚬 a pack and a half to 2 packs a day. He died at 80 due to smoking related ill's. But, he did make it to 80.
RIP 🙏 Rod and Daddy.
I just watched tonight "A World of His Own," in which Serling disappears at the end. A funny classic. And of course there's Willoughby Stop, All the Time in the World, etc.
"To Serve Man"........"Don't get on that ship...the book , the book....it's a cookbook!!!"
Never missed an episode. Rod was brilliant in my opinion.
Sad when we heard he passed away.
We lived only few blocks from Strong Memorial .
The talking Tina Doll episode was definitely unforgettable with Telly Savalas. Wasn't that June Foray's voice for the doll?
"Odyssey of Flight 33", the passenger jet that went back in time and "It's a Good Life" with the evil Bill Mumy are two of my favorites.
With Poe, the greatest American short story writer.
Walking Distance was the greatest tv episode ever made.
I Love The Twilight Zone Series, Too Many to call my Favorite Episodes
Nice one! I've been a fan since it was first aired and hardly a day goes by without me watching a few episodes!
My favourites are "Third From the Sun", "The Passersby", "Long Live Walter Jameson", "The Grave" and "Mr Garrity and the Graves", just to mention a few. There are just so many great ones! 😎
People back in the day just aged faster. Between smoking, bad diets, lack of concerted exercise and excessive drinking.....They really tacked on the years prematurely.....
I still watch the original twilight zone nearly every evening...it helps me relax and sleep...great writing and performances though 🙂
"Walking Distance" was my favorite episode of the show. Honorable mention has to go to "The Obsolete Man," lead by Burgess Meredith.
Every picture of him, he has a cigarette in his hands
Night of the meek with Art Carney was a masterpiece
Outstanding! 😵
Rod was ahead of his time, I loved the TZ nightmare at 20,000 was my fav and the passersby and the rip van winkle story and were is everybody, earl holliman. many many more Tz was good that i liked.
Hello Steve, your right about the Twilight zone being a top notch show. One of my favorites is when Ronnie Howard sends the bad man into the cornfield after turning him into a Jack in the box. The episode with William Shatner on the plane and the creature out on the wing is great too! I was also a big fan of night gallery as it was really creepy for it's time. I didn't know he died after having 3 heart attacks. Too bad as he was a genius and probably would have had more cool horror stuff to entertain all of us with.
Billy Mumy was the little boy. Ron Howard would have been good in the role too.
@@TheLifeandSadEnding I stand corrected it was Billy Mummy> Thanks for that info!
Two of my favorites are Time Enough at Last with Burgess Meridith, the irony of that story. And Night Call with Gladys Cooper, so scary to watch alone at night! but sad at the end when she loses out.
Brilliant man.