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Serling hosting The Twilight Zone
Edwin Rodman Serling ( December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was a screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone. He was born in Syracuse, New York to Samuel and Esther Serling.
Rod Serling served as an Army paratrooper in the Pacific Theater in World War II and was seriously wounded in combat. He suffered from nightmares and flashbacks for the rest of his life. Serling graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1950.
Though more famous for his groundbreaking and compelling Twilight Zone television series, Serling had later also hosted the weekly series Night Gallery in the 1970s, although he had little creative control. Unlike Twilight Zone, the themes of Night Gallery were of horror and the supernatural. He also narrated documentaries featuring French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau.
During his lifetime, Rod Serling received six EmmysThe Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sci and his biggest successes in writing include:
He also wrote the pilot episode for a short-lived Aaron Spelling series called The New PeopleThe New People was a short-lived American television series that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean, killing all but one of the adu in 1969.
Serling died due to complications from heart bypass surgeryA coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or heart bypass is a surgical procedure performed in patients with coronary artery disease (see atherosclerosis) for the relief of angina and possible improved heart muscle function. Veins or arteries from elsewhere i and is interred in the cemetery in Interlaken, New York.