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Four years ago, TV Playwright Rod Serling made his reputation with Patterns, a cliche-ridden but highly effective drama about a ruthless power struggle inside Big Business. Last week, as if to even ...

Television writer Rod Serling, right, huddles with producer-director Fielder Cook, backstage at a New York rehearsal for a precedent-making telecast of Serling's "Patterns," on Television Theater.

Rod Serling remains one of the coolest human beings ever involved in the medium of television. The general public in 2026, of course, continues to know him best as the creator, host, and executive ...

“The real monsters aren’t in outer space. They’re within us — our fears, our hatreds, our need to blame.” Rod Serling, TV Guide Interview, Oct. 1959. “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come ...

The show was memorable not as a play but as a document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, ...