Sam is a Senior Writer for Collider. His love for movies, TV shows, and books stretches back to his early childhood and has grown exponentially with every passing year. Lucky for him, this love grew ...

Television writer Rod Serling, right, huddles with producer-director Fielder Cook, backstage at a New York rehearsal for a precedent-making telecast of Serling's "Patterns," on Television Theater.

The show was memorable not as a play but as a document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, ...

The Rod Serling drama “Patterns” is on DVD this week, along with other vintage titles. “Patterns” (Film Detective, 1956, b/w). Van Heflin stars in this excellent boardroom melodrama as an ambitious ...

Rod Serling was interested in writing meaningful drama that probed human nature and the ills of modern society. The problem with that: He chose to work in television — which, in the 1950s, worked hard ...

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Prods. has struck a deal with the estate of Rod Serling to develop an event series based on an unproduced screenplay by the renowned scribe and “Twilight Zone” host. “The Stops ...

Rod Serling was the most famous writer in the world. He was a wonderful writer, but his fame derived not so much from the words he put down on paper as from the fact that, almost by happenstance, he ...