Rod Serling Memorial Foundation’s president Nick Parisi compiled a list all publicly available works of Rod Serling for his book on the prolific writer and producer.
We all know that The Twilight Zone has been released commercially in every possible format, from VHS Tape to Blu Ray disc. And most will likely know that all three seasons of Rod Serling’s second most famous series, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, is also readily available on DVD. And we hope that most visitors to this site are aware that Rod’s “lost” Western series, THE LONER, was “found” at last, and released in its entirety on DVD. But what about a dozen other television series to which Rod contributed scripts? And while the most successful feature film that Rod ever wrote (well, co-wrote), PLANET OF THE APES, has never been difficult to find, what about his lesser known feature film work?
Courtesy of Nicholas Parisi’s ROD SERLING: HIS LIFE, WORK, AND IMAGINATION, following is a list of every Serling-scripted production that is known to exist and to be obtainable in one format or another. Some of these titles have been commercially released. Some can even be found on YouTube. And several are known to circulate amongst rare film collectors. While we cannot vouch for any of these websites, a few places that are worth browsing are: www.robertsvideos.com; www.oldies.com; www.thefilmcsa.com; and www.classicmoviesdvd.com.
Happy hunting!
For a complete list of Rod’s produced teleplays, screenplays, and radio scripts, please check out Nick’s book, available at Amazon.
| Date of Initial Broadcast / Release |
Title_____ | Series Title_____ |
| December 20, 1950 | “Christmas for Sweeney” | Stars Over Hollywood |
| January 10, 1952 | “The Last Performance” | Shadow of the Cloak |
| January 29, 1952 | “No Gods to Serve” | The Storm |
| August 3, 1952 | “The Carlson Legend” | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| August 17, 1952 | “I Lift My Lamp” | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| March 8, 1953 | “Horace Mann’s Miracle” | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| June 21, 1953 | “Man against Pain” | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| August 18, 1953 | “Nightmare at Ground Zero” | Suspense |
| November 11, 1953 | “A Long Time till Dawn” | Kraft Television Theatre |
| June 7, 1954 | “The Strike” | Studio One |
| September 2, 1954 | “The Case of Operation Death” | The Telltale Clue |
| November 18, 1954 | “Summer Memory” | Ford Television Theatre |
| December 7, 1954 | “Knife in the Dark” | Danger |
| January 12, 1955 | “Patterns” | Kraft Television Theatre |
| March 24, 1955 | “Garrity’s Sons” | Ford Television Theatre |
| April 1955 (unaired) | “The Smallest Revolution” | The Challenge (proposed) |
| April 12, 1955 | “The Rack” | United States Steel Hour |
| March 27, 1956 | Patterns | FEATURE FILM |
| April 9, 1956 | “The Arena” | Studio One |
| October 4, 1956 | “Forbidden Area” | Playhouse 90 |
| October 11, 1956 | “Requiem for a Heavyweight” | Playhouse 90 |
| November 2, 1956 | The Rack | FEATURE FILM |
| February 14, 1957 | “The Comedian” | Playhouse 90 |
| March 20, 1958 | Saddle the Wind | FEATURE |
| May 22, 1958 | “Bomber’s Moon” | Playhouse 90 |
| June 19, 1958 | “A Town Has Turned to Dust” | Playhouse 90 |
| November 24, 1958 | “The Time Element” | Desilu Playhouse |
| January 22, 1959 | “The Velvet Alley” | Playhouse 90 |
| May 18, 1960 | “In the Presence of Mine Enemies” | Playhouse 90 |
| May 16, 1962 | Incident in an Alley | FEATURE FILM |
| October 16, 1962 | Requiem for a Heavyweight | FEATURE FILM |
| May 15, 1963 | The Yellow Canary | FEATURE FILM |
| October 4, 1963 | “A Killing at Sundial” | The Chrysler Theatre |
| December 18, 1963 | Let Us Continue | Documentary Film |
| December 20, 1963 | “It’s Mental Work” | The Chrysler Theatre |
| February 12, 1964 | Seven Days in May | FEATURE FILM |
| December 28, 1964 | Carol for Another Christmas | ABC Television Movie |
| January 22, 1965 | “Exit from a Plane in Flight” | The Chrysler Theatre |
| May 13, 1966 | “The Hate Syndrome” | Insight |
| June 15, 1966 | Assault on a Queen | FEATURE FILM |
| December 13, 1966 | The Doomsday Flight | Television Movie |
| September 22, 1969 | “Pilot” | The New People |
| July 19, 1972 | The Man | FEATURE FILM |
| March 19, 1976 | The Time Travelers (story by) | Television Movie |
