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Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
"No one could know Serling, or view or read his work, without recognizing his deep affection for humanity ... and his
determination to enlarge our horizons by giving us a better understanding of ourselves." —Gene Roddenberry

Rod Sering speaks at Ithaca College commencement 1972

Five of Rod Serling's six Emmy awards--still the most earned by any writer--shine behind glass at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

And we share all of the entries! Read them here.

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NEWSLETTER

"Everybody has to have a hometown, Binghamton's mine.
When I dig back through memory... I get one particularly distinctive feeling
...of warmth, comfort and well-being."

Rod Serling Conference at Ithaca College
Proceedings: 2006, 2008, 2009

Podcasts, news and more at Twilight Zone Network

Visit the Twilight Zone Cafe message board

The Facebook page Dimensions of Imagination
has a wonderful timeline full of Serling pictures.

TZ ALUMNI:
Gone, but never forgotten

George Clayton Johnson, 1929—2015

George Clayton Johnson Twilight Zone writer

Author of early & seminal
Twilight Zone episodes

Member of California Sorcerers
Twilight Zone writers

Remembrance from
friend/editor Christopher Conlon

Jack Klugman, 1922—2012

NY Times:

Jack Klugman obit

Tony Albarella:

Meeting a Famous Everyman

Filmfax article on Jack Klugman

Richard Matheson, 1926—2013

Southern California Sorcerers pillar

NPR obit includes videos of movies
and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

Matheson discusses his
Twilight Zone scripts on YouTube

Author and son share a
1980s magazine cover

Don Keefer,
memorable in
"It's a Good Life,"
dies at 98.

Don Keefer, moments away from the cornfield.

John Tomerlin, member of
the California Sorcerers, writer of
"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"
and other TV series episodes
and SF novels, dies at 84.
2003 Filmfax Interview

For Your Library

Rod Serling:
His Life, Work,
and Imagination

Nicholas Parisi explores
Rod Serling's entire body
of work, and includes
never-published insights
drawn directly from
Serling's personal
correspondence,
unpublished writings,
speeches, and
unproduced scripts.

Radio Interview of the author

Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination by Nick Parisi

UNKNOWN SERLING:
An Episodic History
is painstakingly researched,
well-written and respectful
of Rod Serling and his legacy.
The first portion is out
as an e-book:
The Bradbury, Kennedy,
Pentagon and WWII stories.

Excellent, inexpensive,
and available at Amazon;
for their Kindle reader,
or for the free
Kindle reader app
on IOS and Android.

Radio interview of author Amy Boyle Johnston
Twilight Zone podcast interview

RSMF board member
and editor
Tony Albarella calls it
his "nightcap to the
As Timeless as Infinity series"
— and we call
The Best of Rod Serling's
Twilight Zone Scripts
ten masterworks!

Rod Serling's Best Twilight Zone scripts, edited by Tony Albarella

Rod's "existential western" series The Loner is out on DVD!

RSMF Board member and Loner fan Tony Albarella wrote a review of the release.

At last: episodes with watchable video!

RSMF member Chris Conlon and artist Joe Bucciano honor Night Gallery with an impressive, ongoing collaboration of art and fiction.

Cleveland Plain Dealer TV critic Mark Dawidziak shares life lessons in Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone.

Read USA Today review.

Awards
The Serling Award is given by the Foundation to artists honoring Rod's legacy.

2016 Winners

Blog: Galactic Journey

Film: Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

Music: People Are Alike All Over

Podcast: The Grayscale

2017 Winners

Ithaca College 2018
Serling Award

Scriptwriting competition winners announced, too!

The Carousel - a film by Jonathan Napolitano
is now online! Watch it here.
The documentary features Cortlandt Hull's painted
vignettes of Twilight Zone episodes
and was honored at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Cortlandt Hull's Binghamton Carousel Painting

Cortlandt Hull's Binghamton Carousel Painting

Fantastic poster references all 156 original Twilight Zone episodes

Pop Culture Squad
interviews

Serling author
Nick Parisi


Students Take The Twilight Zone Further
Ithaca College professor Chrissy Guest developed The Twilight Zone Crossover project, where students create a story around a background character in any original episode of The Twilight Zone. The result: delightful, original short films.

THANKS!

We won the contest
because of you.

Thank you for your patience,
your persistence, and your passion for all things Serling.
The prize is $$$ toward
a redesign of our website.
By professionals this time!

10 Twilight Zone Episodes That Came True
Spoiler Alert: Earth has not left its orbit and aliens have not landed. But forgive the clickbait headline and marvel that so many Twilight Zone themes are still so relevant to our world, 60 years later!

Nick Paraisi signs his Rod Serling book Feb.2019

RSMF Board member and author Nick Parisi gave a talk and a book signing in the Cincinati area. His book covers Rod's Cincinati connections in depth.

RSMF member Bill DeVoe
recorded an album
that you can listen to and buy...

As Timeless as Infinity:
A Musical Tribute to
the Genius of Rod Serling

Bill DeVoe's tribute album As Timeless as Infinity: A Musical Tribute to the Genius of Rod Serling

What a Find! Conversation with Rod Serling, a 1968 episode
in the Library of Congress series LC Performance.

Stephen Dexter and producer Sarah Wharton crowd-sourced the pilot of their series The Last Stop "...inspired by the ground-breaking television work of Rod Serling, David Lynch, and Charlie Brooker."

Review:
Twilight Zone Xscape Room in Binghamton
introduces players to Rod's life beyond TZ

Twilight Zone Escape Room in Binghamton, NY

Coming Soon!

A familiar board game enters unusual territory

Rod Serling’s Revenge: Michael Anton's thoughtful
2009 article on what made Twilight Zone special.

Congratulations to Baiyina Richardson, 2018 winner of the
Rod Serling Memorial Foundation scholarship!
Baiyina Richardson, 2018 Rod Serling Memorial Foundation scholarship winner

Baiyina Richardson, 2018 Rod Serling Memorial Foundation scholarship winner

Baiyina will study Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Binghamton.
View her art and its meaning here. Photo by Emmet Chilton-Sugerman

The Twilight Zone has special meaning for a twelve year-old
Colorado boy who is fighting a rare disease.

Blogger Paul at Shadow and Substance had a memorable time at SerlingFest 2018.

Check out his
photos and insights!

Want to learn more about about The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling? Michael Lynn keeps the faith by teaching adult classes at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Randy Cepuch wrote an effective advertising campaign for old Twilight Zone episodes by simply listing all the stars who appeared in the Zone before their fame. Cool!

1958 Mercury Montclair in "The Hitch-Hiker"

1959 Mercury Montclair in "The Hitch-Hiker" & 4 others in
www.historicvehicle.org article: 5 favorite Twilight Zone Cars

Planet of the Apes graphic novel of Rod Serling's original script

New graphic novel of Rod Serling's ORIGINAL Planet of the Apes script, featuring
apes living in a modern urban environment, was considered too expensive to film.

The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia
offers new insights about familiar material.

Social Justice from the Twilight Zone:
Rod Serling as Human Rights Activist
from Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal
of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Speaking With Serling
Science Fiction Grandmaster James Gunn discusses
his unfinished interview with the creator of The Twilight Zone

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