Edwin Rodman "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was a screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone. He was innate around Syracuse, New York to Samuel and Esther Serling.

Military service
Rod Serling served as a U.S. Army paratrooper and demolition specialist with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific Theater in World War II from January 1943 to January 1946. He was seriously maimed in a wrist joint & knee when you took combat & was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Due to his wartime lives, Serling suffered from either nightmares & flashbacks for the rest of his life. Serling was too the noted boxer in the period of his military times.

Early writing career
Upon allowing a military machine, Serling entered Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He graduated within 1950 with a Bachelor's degree in Literature. He had his run as the writer when winning 2nd prize inside a contest for the radio indicate "Dr. Christian" around 1949, while however the university student. Serling & his 2nd married woman Carol (married inside 1948) moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took a job as a staff writer for WLW Radio. Inside 1951, he began to break into television by writing scripts for Hallmark Hall of Fame, Lux Video Theater, Kraft Television Theater, Suspense and Studio One.

Within 1955, Kraft Television Theater presented a second of Serling's scripts, a 72nd to produce it to air. To a Serlings, it was good an additional script, & it missed the foremost survive airing. A indicate was Patterns and it changed Rod Serling's life. Patterns dramatized a struggle for power involving a corporate boss, an veteran running off away from ideas & energy, & the brilliantly immature executive existence groomed to choose the older human's place. It was a brobdingnagian hit, & was potentially presented over again the next week, something touching unprecedented. It established Serling as the rarity: a TV dramatist.

Sir thomas more acclaimed plays for TV followed: A Rack, all about the Korean War vet and a results of torture, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian, plus numbers of sir thomas more, many turned into film.

Sick of seeing his scripts neutered & mangled (removing any political statements, ethnic identities, potentially a Chrysler building existence flushed from either a script sponsored by Ford), Serling decided the exclusively way as much as this interference was to produce his have indicate.

The Twilight Zone
Inside 1959, CBS aired the number 1 episode of the innovative series, Rod Serling, A Twilight Zone. Serling got fought strong for originative control, got hired a writers he'd admired (population prefer Richard Matheson, and Charles Beaumont, both television writers, however too known for their Science Fiction stories as well) & launched himself into hebdomadally television.

A indicate lasted 5 seasons (quatern when a half hour, 1 fully year as an hour hanker drama), winning awards for Serling & his writers, too as critical plaudits. the program, when getting a firm fan base, never experienced immense ratings, & was cancelled twice, exclusively to exist as brought back. Fallowing 5 years & 156 episodes, (92 written by Serling himself), Serling was trite. Around 1964, a aweary Serling decided to let the previous cancellation become final.

Serling sold his rights to the series to CBS. His married woman late stated that he did this part because he believed a studio would never recover a numbers of creating a indicate, which oftentimes went overbudget. Using hindsight, this was the costly mistake.

Night Gallery

Within 1969, NBC aired the pilot for a freshly Serling indicate, "Night Gallery". This was to exist as the indicate focused further on the grim & Gothic horror, however Serling experienced allowed himself to lose originative control of the content. A producers rejected Serling’s additional thoughtful scripts pro every week monsters. A indicate devolved into what Serling known as "Mannix in a graveyard". Nighttime Gallery lasted until 1974.

Later Years
Years of stresssalaber & smoking caught higher using a writer inside his final years. Serling died around 1975 inside Rochester, New York due to complications from heart bypass surgery and is interred around the cemetery in Interlaken, New York, part of upstate New York, which featured and then prominentlsalabery around episodes of The Twilight Zone. Per equivalent ironic token, butt come featured within numerous episodes.

Serling is besides noted for narrated docudrama featuring French submarine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

When you took his lifespan, Rod Serling received sise Emmys and his biggest successes inside writing include: Patterns (1955) Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956) The Comedian (1957) A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958) The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964 television series) Night Gallery (1970 - 1973 television series) Planet of the Apes (1968 co-written with Michael Wilson)

He too wrote the pilot episode for a short-ephemeral Aaron Spelling series known as The New People in 1969.

He late taught at Ithaca College.

Other filmography
Encounter with the Unknown (narrator)