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Episode 719: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval


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On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the creator of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling. Serling was a visionary who changed the very medium of television. He survived some of the worst warfare in the Pacific theater in WWII, and when he returned home, he was a changed man. He wrote of justice and dreamed of worlds without war, racism, and the worst that humanity had to offer. But it was the 1960s, so the only way to do it was to hide it all in the guise of science fiction and horror. This brilliant, singular mind brought some of the greatest moments of scripted television to life and narrated it all like a cigarette smoking Man in Black baller while he did so.
 
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https://www.biography.com/writer/rod-serling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/rod-serling-about-rod-serling/702/
https://rodserling.com/rod-serling/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59288/8-bizarre-facts-about-rod-serling-and-twilight-zone
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/rod-serling-5465.php
https://www.metv.com/lists/15-fascinating-facts-about-rod-serling
Animated Video: https://aeon.co/videos/rod-serling-on-how-imagination-turns-science-fiction-into-fact
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