Rare Rod Serling sharing and discussion thread

How about Rod Serling's "The Zero Hour" radio series, from 1973:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zero_Hour_(radio_series)

 

That one does not get as much attention, but I find it very interesting to see Serling go back to radio in the 1970s. I would do the same thing that I want to do with Night Gallery and develop these radio dramas into a television anthology series ,keeping Rod Serling's narration intact. Serling was one of the greatest narrators around. I would love to see this adaptation for television. 78 new stories with Serling narrating it. I could go for that.

 

The original format featured five-part dramas broadcast Monday through Friday with the story coming to a conclusion on Friday.

Speaking of "The Zero Hour" ... here is my favorite episode in it's entirety!

Zero Hour Classic Podcast 1973-12-24 to 1973-12-28 Host Rod Serling with John Dehner and Susan Oliver - Fourth of Forever



Susan Oliver video bio -

 

This is included on the Twilight Zone BD set, so I've seen it. In my opinion it suffers from the same problem that the hour-long episodes of season four did: it's half an hour worth of show stretched to an hour.

 

I like that show too. Thanks for presenting the series a couple of times over the years. My favorite is the one with Ken Berry, Joanne Worley and Edgar Bergen.

 

I really like that one too! They work great collected together, but I could see why they would have struggled to keep an audience when they were originally aired. If you missed a night or two, the story would have huge holes in it. The main problem I see with the series is every show is a multi-hour commitment, so each episode has to be outstanding or the audience feels betrayed by the time commitment.

Here is the episode that you mentioned, and it rocks to hear Ken Berry and Joanne Worley in "contemporary" 1970s roles. This is not Mayberry RFD, F-Troop, or Laugh-In for sure!

Zero Hour Podcast 1973-10-15 to 1973-10-19 Host Rod Serling with Ken Berry, Joanne Worley, and Edgar Bergen - Heir Hunters (Crazy Captain Steven)



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Just for fun let's do one more of my favorites, maybe the most suspenseful episode!

Zero Hour Podcast 1973-12-10 to 1973-12-14 Host Rod Serling with Richard Crenna, Keenan Wynn, and Julie Adams - Desperate Witness (Stereo)

 

THE HOMECOMING OF LEMUEL STOVE
Airdate November 20, 1965
Written by Rod Serling
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music: Nelson Riddle
Film Editor: Hugh Chaloupka

CAST
Brock Peters..............Lemuel Stove
Russ Conway.........Sheriff Simpson
Don Keefer......................Minister
Charles Fransico...................Paine
Berkeley Harris.................Dechter
John Pickard................Blacksmith

Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by pre-Ku Klux Klanners.

 

In episodes of the Twilight zone, Rod Serling appears to deliver his opening narration: indoors, outdoors, on other planets, on spaceships... he speaks to us, and yet he seems invisible to the characters around him.

Can we surmise that Mr Serling is an interdimensional being within the context of the show?

 

It's 2016 and good things come to those who wait! Rod Serling's follow up series to Twilight Zone, The Loner is out on DVD for the first time and you can get the complete series over at Amazon for around $15! Best $15 you will ever spend! Of the 26 episodes Rod writes a whopping 15 of them! I love the series! Lloyd Bridges does some of his best work on the series.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01I...65&keywords=the+loner+complete+series+bridges

 

Submitted for your approval: a live drama from the Suspense TV series in 1953. Picture if you will a portrait of a desperate husband who makes dummies for atomic bomb tests...



Serlingologists will notice themes that turn up later in his Twilight Zone scripts.

Directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird). The executive producer would later narrate the Batman TV series.

 

POTA is one my favorite films. When I discovered that RS had played a part, that made my appreciation of the film all that more satisfying.

Spent many hours watching the TZ when it had it's run on TV and syndication.

I love the Serling family. His brother Robert, wrote one of the most enjoyable novels I have ever read, "The President's Plane Is Missing" (The TV movie adaptation did not do the novel justice).

 

After careful analysis and sincere appreciation...this thread is approved!

 

This is included as an extra on the Twilight Zone blu-rays, though I can't remember which season.

 

THE LONER was actually released back in June on DVD. Timeless gave Walmart a 90-day exclusive on it, but you'd hardly have known as most stores didn't even stock it.

I had ordered the DVD set through Walmart.com, but they dickered around with shipping dates and availability, so I started looking in stores. Neither of the two stores nearest me carried it, and of the ones around me that did (judging by online store inventory), the store in Lakeland, FL was the closest, so I made the 45-mile round trip to secure my copy of the series. At this point - I'm savoring -I've gotten through the first four episodes and am really pleasantly surprised.

We didn't watch it regularly back in the '60s, but since it aired as the lead-in to GUNSMOKE, I figure we must have sampled at least the premiere episode. If I know my Dad, he probably determined that it was too talky for him, preferring more action in his westerns. Our household likely watched HOLLYWOOD PALACE if the NBC movie wasn't to our taste, switching to GUNSMOKE at 10 PM.

Now that I'm an adult, I've discovered that the more cerebral westerns are pretty good and am enjoying discovering them.

 

Here's what I wanna see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_on_Truckin'_(TV_series)

 

Thanks you guys for mentioning this show and the podcast of the episodes. Diving in now, I'd never heard of it!

 

The Rod Serling Award for Best Actor: Robert Duvall in "Minature."

 

Tell me if you want more. There were 13 of 5 part series made and I've done podcasts for all of them.