television 1963 Twilight Zone episode warned how fascism spreads Ellsworth Toohey

speeches Dick Van Dyke re-reads the Rod Serling speech he read at a 1964 MLK civil rights rally Gareth Branwyn

christmas Rod Serling's 1964 retelling of 'A Christmas Carol' Rusty Blazenhoff

rod serling On Dick Cavett Show Rod Serling discusses his lack of creative control on Night Gallery (1972) Mark Frauenfelder

writers Rod Serling talks to college students about the craft of writing Gareth Branwyn

science fiction Rod Serling: human rights activist as science fiction showrunner Cory Doctorow

music Fantasy Park, 50 years on: BBC documentary about the greatest rock festival that never was Rob Beschizza

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old-fashioned facts Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video) Carla Sinclair

Entertainment Bad writing becomes an art form in annual contest for world's worst prose Ellsworth Toohey

music 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in new Coldplay video Mark Frauenfelder

twilight zone Was the title for the Twilight Zone lifted from this obscure 1957 zombie movie? Mark Frauenfelder

vivarium Vivarium is a horror movie that features suburbia as the monster Carla Sinclair

Mike Wallace interviews Rod Serling in 1959 Mark Frauenfelder

books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow

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video Watch Christopher Nolan's 1997 short horror film "Doodlebug" Andrea James

tv Every time Rod Serling said "Twilight Zone" synced up Rob Beschizza

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