Rod Speaks Out
Speeches, Interviews, Opinion Pieces
Bob Crane Interviews Rod Serling
The Bob Crane Show: interview with Rod Serling as aired on KNX-CBS Radio on December 11, 1961. Yes, that Bob Crane, pre-Hogan. Subject: "The Shelter."
Can a TV Writer Keep His Integrity?
TV Guide circa 1965: Rod Serling and Reginald Rose debate censorship of their work, beginning in person and continuing by mail, refereed by Edith Efron.
Writing for Television Discussions
Ithaca College, NY, circa 1972: Rod Serling and a half dozen of his Ithaca College writing students made a Q&A video. It's now viral on [...]
Congress remains in the Twilight Zone
"You listen to what is said in Congress and wonder how some of those men got there. Well, obviously, they got there by dropping out [...]
Rod Serling’s Final Interview
March 4, 1975: Not knowing that he has less than four months to live, Rod weighs in eerily on awards, prejudice, censorship, compulsion, immortality, (not) [...]
Rod Serling’s Commencement Speech at Ithaca College, 1972
Rod Serling warns of overxposure to perpetual office-seekers, the posturing push-button products of politics built out of plastic and cigar smoke.
Rod Serling Rips Loyalty Oaths, the Vietnam War, and Social Inequity
"If you want to prove that God is not dead... first prove that man is alive." —Rod Serling, urging his audience to be intent on [...]
Rod Serling’s 1968 Commencement Address at BHS
Rod Serling's Speech to Binghamton Central High School Graduates Sunday, January 28, 1968 Graduates, ladies and gentlemen, faculty, friends and old acquaintances, unless you've reached [...]
Rod Serling: Don’t Ignore Evil
Serling consigns white backlash "...to its proper place, and that would have to be in a city dump some place outside of Pomona." [...]
Rod Serling Rips TV Censorship
May 1, 1964: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin There has been progress made in the quality of television programming, but some of the industry’s worst problems—like [...]
Why is TV the Whipping Boy?
Other mass media have the same faults but escape criticism By Rod Serling This article, tenth in TV Guide's "Television As I See It" series, [...]
Roasting Rod Serling
Mike Wallace tunes up for 60 Minutes in this 1959 interview Some background from the webmaster: Censorship flourished in the Fifties as an outgrowth of [...]
Angry Young Man? Serling Too Busy
By JAMES HEAVEY, Binghamton Sunday Press, August 15, 1959 A suddenly non-controversial Rod Serling said in Binghamton last night that he's outlived the role of [...]
Introduction to the 1957 Bantam Paperback “Patterns”
...a lengthy but riveting account of the blood, sweat, and tears it took to make it in television. by Rod Serling About Writing for [...]
