Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone
by Brode, Douglas; Serling, CarolFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-12-16
Publisher(s): Barricade Books Inc
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Summary
Having just celebrated its 50th anniversary, this title provides both an intimate insight and an in-depth examination of The Twilight Zone, arguably one of the most popular television shows ever. Drawing on photographs and personal reminiscences, Rod Serling's widow, Carol, gives commentary on some of the series' most memorable episodes. Veteran film historian Brode gives in-depth descriptions of these episodes and discusses why they were so resonant with viewers.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Introduction: The World According to Rod | p. xv |
| THE WAY WE WERE: The Lure of Nostalgia | p. 1 |
| Walking Distance | p. 1 |
| A Stop at Willoughby | p. 8 |
| The Incredible World of Horace Ford | p. 17 |
| What Dreams May Come: Nightmares at Noon | p. 21 |
| Where Is Everybody? | p. 21 |
| King Nine Will Not Return | p. 26 |
| Perchance to Dream | p. 29 |
| Nightmare as a Child | p. 31 |
| Shadow Play | p. 34 |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | p. 36 |
| Angels in America: Cosmic Capra-Corn | p. 39 |
| One for the Angels | p. 39 |
| The Big Tall Wish | p. 44 |
| A Passage for Trumpet | p. 49 |
| Night of the Meek | p. 53 |
| The Changing of the Guard | p. 55 |
| Me, Myself, & I: An Auteur's Identity Crisis | p. 57 |
| And When the Sky Was Opened | p. 57 |
| Mirror Image | p. 60 |
| The After Hours | p. 62 |
| Miniature | p. 64 |
| Mute | p. 66 |
| A World of Difference | p. 70 |
| The Dummy | p. 72 |
| A Quality of Mercy | p. 74 |
| Future Imperfect: The Shape of Things to Come | p. 77 |
| The Lonely | p. 77 |
| I Sing the Body Electric | p. 80 |
| Third from the Sun | p. 81 |
| I Shot an Arrow Into the Air | p. 84 |
| People Are Alike All Over | p. 87 |
| The Parallel | p. 91 |
| It's About Time!: Had We But World Enough… | p. 95 |
| Time Enough at Last | p. 95 |
| Two | p. 97 |
| Back There | p. 99 |
| No Time Like the Past | p. 100 |
| The Last Flight | p. 104 |
| The Odyssey of Flight 33 | p. 107 |
| The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms | p. 109 |
| A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain | p. 111 |
| The Undiscovered Country: Death in the Fifth Dimension | p. 113 |
| The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine | p. 113 |
| The Four of Us Are Dying | p. 115 |
| The Hitch-Hiker | p. 117 |
| The Purple Testament | p. 120 |
| Deaths-Head Revisited | p. 121 |
| The Thirty-Fathom Grave | p. 123 |
| A Nice Place to Visit | p. 124 |
| Nothing in the Dark | p. 124 |
| Death Ship | p. 124 |
| Long Distance Call | p. 126 |
| In Praise of Pip | p. 128 |
| Deals with the Devil: Dr. Faustus in the Fifth Dimension | p. 131 |
| Escape Clause | p. 131 |
| The Fever | p. 133 |
| Nick of Time | p. 135 |
| Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room | p. 137 |
| Last Night of a Jockey | p. 137 |
| Long Live Walter Jameson | p. 139 |
| Printer's Devil | p. 140 |
| Jess-Belle | p. 142 |
| Of Late I Think of Cliffordville | p. 144 |
| The Bard | p. 146 |
| How the West was Weird: Two Genres at a Crossroads | p. 149 |
| Mr. Denton on Doomsday | p. 149 |
| A Hundred Yards Over the Rim | p. 151 |
| Execution | p. 153 |
| Dust | p. 157 |
| The Grave | p. 161 |
| Mr. Garrity and the Graves | p. 163 |
| Showdown with Rance McGrew | p. 164 |
| "Look to the Skies!": Close Encounters of the Zone Kind | p. 167 |
| The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street | p. 167 |
| Mr. Dingle, the Strong | p. 170 |
| Hocus Pocus and Frisby | p. 171 |
| The Invaders | p. 172 |
| The Little People | p. 174 |
| The Fear | p. 175 |
| Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? | p. 178 |
| The Fugitive | p. 179 |
| The Gift | p. 181 |
| To Serve Man | p. 183 |
| Right Turn/Left Face: Politics in the Zone | p. 185 |
| Judgment Night | p. 185 |
| He's Alive | p. 190 |
| The Howling Man | p. 190 |
| The Obsolete Man | p. 194 |
| On Thursday We Leave for Home | p. 197 |
| The Old Man in the Cave | p. 200 |
| Video Noir: The Dark Side of the Small Screen | p. 203 |
| The Eye of the Beholder | p. 203 |
| It's a Good Life | p. 205 |
| The Shelter | p. 207 |
| One More Pallbearer | p. 207 |
| The Midnight Sun | p. 210 |
| Little Girl Lost | p. 211 |
| Kick the Can | p. 211 |
| Spur of the Moment | p. 211 |
| Uncle Simon | p. 213 |
| The Masks | p. 214 |
| Living Doll | p. 215 |
| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | p. 215 |
| I Am the Night-Color Me Black | p. 217 |
| The Long Morrow | p. 219 |
| Conclusion: Why Should we Take Serling Seriously? | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 237 |
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