It's Been 50 Years Ago

since that classic series, The Twilight Zone, premiered on CBS television. Here is an article about this great show.

It's been called "sci-fi," but the show really wasn't; it was a fantasy series which dealt with many serious themes that could not have been handled during that era if they had been done in a realistic format.

War, aging, and especially death were some of the "heavy" themes the show explored.

Here is another recent article about TZ and Serling.

His widow, Carol Kramer Serling, keeps his memory alive. She met him when she was 17 and he was 21. They married in 1948. In this old article from 1987, she describes what it was like to live around somebody who was nothing short of a workaholic.

Rod smoked himself and worked himself to death.

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