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American Masters: Season 10, Episode 1Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (29 Nov. 1995)The life and career of the renowned television writer and creator of the classic science fiction series, "The Twilight Zone." Director:Susan Lacy |
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Title: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (29 Nov 1995)
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Himself - Presenting Emmy to Rod Serling
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Fielder Cook | ... |
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Mike Dann | ... |
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Saul David | ... |
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Melvin
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Helen Foley | ... |
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The life and career of the renowned television writer and creator of the classic science fiction series, "The Twilight Zone."
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I saw this PBS production on Christmas week - December 25th being Serling's birthday, it was appropriate. The opening sequence is shot in the same expressionistic, tense way as the best Zone episodes. And in all honesty, it focused on Serling's "Twilight Zone" work because it was the best and most available of his TV work.
There is little talk of his post-Zone work; he loathed "Night Gallery" and pretty much despaired of TV after that. His movie work, such as his screenplay for "Planet of the Apes," showed little of the boldness of his Zone scripts. I'd also hazard a guess that these parts of his career work was unavailable to the producers. (Some of Serling's works, such as his anti-Semitism episode of the Catholic show "Insight" and his UN-brotherhood fantasy "Carol for Another Christmas," are just plain unavailable.) Given what they had, the producers did a remarkable job, using sequences of "Zone" to illustrate Serling's worldview and state of mind. They gave him a fitting tribute, far better than what his industry gave him.