History Creator / RodSerling

* FairForitsDay[=/=]ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' (original 1959-64 version)

* DownerEnding/BittersweetEnding: His protagonists survive less often than they die in many of his stories.
* FairForitsDay/ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.

* AntiHero:His heroes tended to have personal flaws.

* VillainProtagonist: Often used when he needed unsympathetic characters. Two episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'' even had a [[NaziProtagonist Nazi for a protaganist]].

* AcceptableTargets: {{Invoked}}. While most of his villains are anti-villians or even somewhat likable Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians.

* DownerEnding/BittersweetEnding: His protaganists survive less often than they die in many of his stories.

* VillainProtagonist: Often used when he needed unsympathetic charactars. Two episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'' even had a [[NaziProtagonist Nazi for a protaganist]].

* AcceptableTargets: While most of his villains are anti-villians or even somewhat likable Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians.

* The documentary series ''The Undersea World Of JacquesCousteau''

* VillainProtagonist: Often used when he needed unsympathetic charactars. One episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' even had a Neo-Nazi for a protaganist.

* AcceptableTargets: While most of his villains are anti-villians or even somewhat likable Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians.

* Satan: Used as a villain more than once.

Imagine if you will an ordinary man, just like any other gifted student before the outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. This man enlists to serve his country, but as a paratrooper sees things no man was meant to see.

Imagine if you will an ordinary man, just like any other gifted student before the outbreak of [[WorldWarII the war]]. This man enlists to serve his country, but as a paratrooper sees things no man was meant to see.

They drive him to create, and thrust himself into... ''Series/TheTwilightZone''.

They drive him to create, then thrust himself into...''Series/TheTwilightZone''.

* ''The Twilight Zone'' (1959-64 version)

* ''Requiem For A Heavyweight'' (originally a 1956 episode of ''Playhouse 90'', then a 1962 film)

* ''Film/SevenDaysInMay'' (wrote the script for TheFilmOfTheBook) (1964)

* ''SevenDaysInMay'' (wrote the script for TheFilmOfTheBook) (1964)

* ValuesResonance

* ''SevenDaysInMay'' (1964)
* The original draft of the 1968 ''PlanetOfTheApes'' film

* ''NightGallery'' (1970-73)

->Rodman Edward Serling, a man who cannot leave his own little world yet takes this fact as comfort, living out a pleasant eternity...in ''The Twilight Zone''.

!!Created and [[{{narrator}} narrated]]:
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' (1959-64 version)

!!Also [[{{Narrator}} narrated]]:

->It is said that life is but a whisper, leaving just as quickly as it arrives. This man was killed not by machines of man, nor by acts of nature, nor by seeking seclusion within the recesses and infinities of his mind...but by a faulty heart, which removed him from the coil of mortality while men of medicine tried valiantly to keep him from that fate.

->Since the twenty-eighth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-five, this man has led a new life inside the world he created. He takes pride in those who [[FanFic tell new tales]], and upon request will walk into the spotlight to give an appropriate spiel at each beginning and end.

Imagine if you will an ordinary man, just like any other gifted student before the outbreak of [[WorldWarII the war]]. This man enlists to serve his country, but as a paratrooper he sees things no man was meant to see.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' (1959-64 version)
* ''NightGallery'' (1970-73)

* ''The Loner'' (short-lived CBS "Western" series, 1965-66)

* The documentary series ''The Undersea World Of JacquesCousteau''

* The 1969 version of the GameShow ''Liars Club''

* ''Patterns'' (a 1955 episode of ''Kraft Television Theater'')
* ''Requiem For A Heavyweight'' (originally a 1956 episode of ''Playhouse 90'', then a 1962 film)
* ''SevenDaysInMay'' (1964)
* The original draft of the 1968 ''PlanetOfTheApes'' film
* Many, many early anthology series

* Analysis.SpeculativeFiction
* ValuesResonance

->They say that life is but a whisper, leaving just as quickly as it arrives. This man was killed not by machines of men, nor by acts of nature, nor by seeking seclusion within the recesses of his mind...but by a faulty heart, which removed him from this mortal coil while men of medicine tried valiantly to keep him from doing just that.

->Since the twenty-eighth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-five, Rodman Edward Serling has led a new life inside the world he created. He takes pride in those who [[FanFic tell new tales]], and will occasionally walk into the spotlight to recite an appropriate spiel at each beginning and end.

->Rod Serling, a man who cannot leave his own little world yet takes this fact as comfort, living out a pleasant eternity...in ''The Twilight Zone''.

* OldShame

* ScienceFictionVersusFantasy

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They drive him to create, then thrust himself into...''TheTwilightZone''.

* ''TheTwilightZone'' (1959-64 version)