TV Guide: Rod Serling

Listing: Twilight Zone

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:30:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 05:30 AM SCI FI

Listing: Valley of the Shadow

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 03:00 PM SCI FI Ed Nelson plays a newspaper reporter who stumbles into a small town where residents have extraordinary powers, which they insist remain hidden from the outside world. Dorn: David Opatoshu. Ellen: Natalie Trundy. Connelly: Jacques Aubuchon. Girl: Suzanne Cupito. Gas Station Attendant: Sandy Kenyon.

Listing: The Bard

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 02:00 PM SCI FI Jack Weston plays an aspiring TV writer who inadvertently conjures up the ghost of William Shakespeare (John Williams), and takes credit for the Bard's brilliant teleplay. Burt Reynolds plays method actor Rocky Rhodes. Shannon: John McGiver. Sadie: Doro Merande. Hugo: Henry Lascoe. Dolan: William Lanteau. Bramhoff: Howard McNear. Secretary: Marge Redmond. Bus Driver: Clegg Hoyt.

Listing: The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 01:00 PM SCI FI Reginald Rose (“12 Angry Men”) wrote this tale of a middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) whose idyllic childhood memories are jolted when he visits his old neighborhood. Laura: Nan Martin. Leonard: Phillip Pine. Mr. Judson: Vaughn Taylor. Hermy: Jerry Davis. Host: Rod Serling.

Listing: The New Exhibit

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 12:00 PM SCI FI Martin Balsam plays a museum caretaker who stores wax figures of five notorious murderers in his basement. And then bodies start piling up. Emma: Maggie Mahoney. Ferguson: Will Kuluva. Jack the Ripper: David Bond. Hicks: Bob Mitchell. Landru: Milton Parsons.

Listing: Printer's Devil

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 11:00 AM SCI FI In his fourth and final series appearance, Burgess Meredith plays a linotypist who saves a dying newspaper by reporting on disasters---before they happen. Winter: Robert Sterling. Franklin: Ray Teal. Jackie: Patricia Crowley. Andy: Charles Thompson. Landlady: Doris Kemper.

Listing: Death Ship

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 10:00 AM SCI FI In his third series appearance, Jack Klugman plays one of three astronauts who find their lifeless look-alikes in a crashed spaceship on a distant planet. Mason: Ross Martin. Carter: Fredrick Beir. Ruth: Mary Webster. Jeannie: Tammy Marihugh. Kramer: Ross Elliott. Mrs. Nolan: Sara Taft.

Listing: Mute

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 09:00 AM SCI FI A telepathic mute girl (a preteen Ann Jillian) is the only survivor of a fire.

Listing: He's Alive

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 08:00 AM SCI FI Dennis Hopper stars as a neo-Nazi leader whose struggle for supporters is assisted by advice from a mysterious stranger with tips on attracting followers. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (“Cool Hand Luke,” “The Amityville Horror”). Ganz: Ludwig Donath. Stranger: Curt Conway. Frank: Paul Mazursky. Stanley: Barnaby Hale. Nick: Howard Caine. Gibbons: Jay Adler. Bartender: Wolfe Barzell. Heckler: Bernard Fein. Host: Rod Serling.

Video: Rack, The -- (Movie Clip) Certain Emotional Problems

TCM — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:36:15 -0500

Released Korean War P.O.W Ed Hall (Paul Newman) gets an initial debriefing from Maj. Phillips (Barry Atwater) in an early scene from The Rack, 1956, based on a Rod Serling teleplay.

Video: Matt Dillon - March 11, 2005

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:57:18 -0500

Spring Break Cold Opening: Girls waiting for their flight to leave for spring break discuss their very unsafe vacation plans (Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Chris Parnell, Paula Pell). Matt Dillon Monologue: Matt Dillon gives the Oscar speech he had ready in case he won. Doppelganger: An SNL Digital Short. Will Forte, Andy Samberg and Seth Meyers are co-workers who spend lunchtime looking for their look-alikes (Horatio Sanz). Weekend Update: Forte Sings: Will Forte explains the differences between Sunni and Shiite in song. Two A-Holes at a Travel Agency: Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig want to take a trip (Matt Dillon). How to Order Sushi like a CEO: Matt Dillon simplifies sushi-eating (Maya Rudolph). Vincent Price St. Patrick s Day: Vincent Price (Bill Hader) hosts a St. Patrick s Day Special. Guests include Katherine Hepburn (Kristen Wiig), Rod Serling (Matt Dillon) and Don Knotts (Darrell Hammond).

Video: Face of Ice

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:24:03 -0500

Dr. Rhodes investigates the case of Anna Celek, a recent victim of amnesia, who in astral projection witnessed the fatal shooting of a motorcyclist. Anna refuses to stay with husband Victor, whom she no longer knows, and fears. Before Rhodes takes Anna to stay with her brother George, he picks up and impression of the cyclist, his visor encrusted in ice.

Video: The Shadow In the Well

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:24:01 -0500

Michael Rhodes is asked to help Lisa Wolf, who is frightened by an image of her recently drowned husband whom she believes she accidentally killed. Rhodes is strongly opposed by Linchou, brother of deceased Daniel Wolf, when he goes to the Wolf mansion run by Lisa's dominating mother-in-law. When Rhodes sees another manifestation of Daniel, he notices rope burns on his hands that denote Lisa's innocence.

Video: Whisper of Evil

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:59 -0500

Michael Rhodes races against time to find Monique, the sister of Alice Bennington, whose life depends on a successful kidney transplant. Alice, who has been separated from her sister since early childhood, has been frightened by a vivid impression of Monique as the participant in a satanic ritual.

Video: Echo of Distant Scream

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:57 -0500

Menaced by a rearing white ghost horse while riding near her ranch, Paula Norris calls he friend Michael Rhodes to investigate. Rhodes, opposed by Paula's boyfriend, Glen Tuttle, and her trainer, Anson Biege, succeeds in getting her to see a vision of a terrified young girl, a red ribbon in her dark hair, with the white horse. His life is a stake as he gets close to the truth.

Video: Eye of the Haunted

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:54 -0500

Michael Rhodes, in love with teacher Daina Parker, sees a huge shadow pursuing her in a psychic impression just before finding her dead. While Rhodes investigates such clues as a piece of magnetic tape and an aural impression of sitar music, guilty Wayne Bennett sees Terry Parker, Diana's look-alike sister, and believes she is a ghost. Mrs. Bennett, a fortune teller, assures her son that the can dispel a ghost with a silver bullet.

Video: Witch, Witch, Burning Bright

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:53 -0500

Michael Rhodes is summoned to a New England Village by his uncle, Martin Fletcher, who is being threatened by a specter in Salem witch era garb. Rhodes arrives at Bayport, where his family has owned land for 300 years, and meets Martin's neighbors, Judith Eaton and her daughter Damaris - the girl in Rhodes' vision. Judith believes Damaris is a witch like previous Eatons.

Video: With This Ring, I Thee Kill

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:48 -0500

A dying man, Henry Webster, describes for Michael Rhodes his visions of an iron mask and flashing sword and asks him to protect his daughter, Marguerite, who plans to marry Clayton Ross. Rhodes meets young Ross, who appears to be strangely attached to the old mansion of silent star Edmund Breakstone he seem to have bought recently. His suspicions of Ross grow as he investigates the mansion's history.

Video: Can a Dead Man Strike from the Grave

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:43 -0500

Elizabeth Danbury seeks Dr. Rhodes' help for her husband Edwin, who sees visions of a tryst killing and who plays piano masterfully when in a trance-like state. While at Edwin's home where Elizabeth's sister Helen and the latter's daughter Stephanie, a talented young musician, also live, Rhodes Experiences Edwin's vision - with himself as the young victim of the shooting.

Video: The Man Who Died At 3 & 9

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:37 -0500

Michael Rhodes' life is at stake when he interferes with a mysterious telepath taking over the psyche of diplomat Paul Crowley. Crowley, a key figure at an approaching diplomatic conference, is increasingly subjected to blank time lapses and visions of woman begging his help in a flood. When Rhodes begins to test Crowley, the unknown telepath attacks him psychically.

Video: The House That Cried Murder

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:33 -0500

Gail Sumner's visions of bathtub murder in her leased mansion and of herself in a '50s model car sinking in a lake bring her to psychic investigator Michael Rhodes. Dr. Rhodes finds an unusual metal object at the lake that he later sees as the hood ornament on 1950 sedan that he and Gail see crashing through a window towards them. Then Rhodes learns that Frances Dahlgren, former owner of the mansion, supposedly drowned accidentally in the tub during a party a number of years earlier.

Video: Lady, Lady, Take My Life

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:23:30 -0500

Psychic investigator, Michael Rhodes, conducts experiments to determine which member of a scientific group willed an abusive official's death. Psychic sensitive Annette Gordon and four scientists attempting telepathic communication with an astronaut in space are interrupted by Mr. Walker, the official, who orders them from Clay Institute. General hostility is expressed towards him before his strange death, caused by one of the group according to Annette. Dr. Rhodes' tests indicate the group's collective will was involved in Walker's demise.

Video: Requiem for a Heavyweight - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:10 -0500

Anthony Quinn is an aging boxer trying to escape a crooked manager (Jackie Gleason) in Rod Serling's drama Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962).

Video: June 28, 1975

Hulu — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:29:35 -0500

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Video: In The Presence Of Mine Enemies

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:16:42 -0500

Rod Serling's sobering drama, originally shown on Playhouse 90, is re-made in this made-for-cable movie. The setting is the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, where Jews are either carted off to Nazi death camps or left to die in the disease-ridden squalor of the streets. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Rabbi Heller, a father who is struggling to retain his commitment to peace in the face of the horrors he sees around him. Heller stands his moral ground while watching his daughter Rachel targeted by a German soldier and his son transformed into a hateful ex-prisoner. Director Joan Micklin Silver effectively re-creates the claustrophobic feel of the Ghetto and music group Dead Can Dance provides the emotive score. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide.

Video: Executive Suite

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:48:00 -0500

Cameron Hawley's novel {-Executive Suite} appeared around the same time as two other tales of big-business intrigue, the 1954 film A Woman's World and the 1955 Rod Serling teleplay Patterns. Elements of all three properties inevitably overlap. In Executive Suite, a furniture-store executive dies suddenly, resulting in a power play between five of his vice presidents. Julia O. Tredway (Barbara Stanwyck), daughter of the company founder and mistress of the president, must choose between solid family man McDonald Walling (William Holden), blackmail-prone Josiah Walter Dudley (Paul Douglas), ruthless Loren Phineas Shaw (Fredric March), duplicitous George Nyle Caswell (Louis Calhern), and eternal corporate bridesmaid Frederick Y. Alderson (Walter Pidgeon). Only Walling, the most honest of the bunch, refuses to campaign for the presidential chair. Despite the presence of the A-list leads and of supporting actors Shelley Winters, Dean Jagger, and Nina Foch, Executive Suite is a true ensemble effort, with everyone c

Video: Twilight Zone: The Movie

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:02:12 -0500

Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate stories--each by a different director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller. In one, a bigot is taught a lesson when he is transported to experience the lives of three different victims of prejudice and intolerance. Another takes a trip to an old-age home where the arrival of a special man turns some of the residents into youthful people once again. In the third, a woman befriends a timid young child who turns out to be a maniacal brat with bizarre powers. The final segment shows how a man with an aversion to flying has a rough time when he panics and then sees a strange creature on the wing outside his window seat. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide.

Video: Day Of The Dead

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:23 -0500

Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have taken refuge in an underground missile silo and argue and yell at each other like players in a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode. Among the survivors are Sarah (Lori Cardille) -- a scientist who is trying to reverse the process whereby the dead turn into flesh-eating, irrational zombies -- and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) -- an out-of-his-mind psychologist who wants to capture the zombies and turn them into domestic help. Things heat up when the military tries to take over the scientific experiments. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide.

Video: Frequency

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:43:51 -0500

Known more for his dark, psychological crime thrillers Primal Fear (1996) and Fallen (1998), director Gregory Hoblit surprisingly created this Frank Capra-meets-Rod Serling-style fantasy that mixes several genres of storytelling into a likable stew. James Caviezel stars as John Sullivan, a New York police detective who has never recovered from the death of his father Frank (Dennis Quaid), a firefighter who died heroically when John was a boy. Experimenting with his dad's beloved ham radio one summer night, extreme sunspot activity allows John to contact Frank 30 years in the past. Since he's able to warn Frank away from danger, his father's death never occurs. Then the unthinkable happens: John's altered future is one in which his mother Julia (Elizabeth Mitchell) has been murdered by a serial killer. Now John in the present and Frank in the past must try to solve the riddle of the killer's identity and change the time line again. Frequency was written by Toby Emmerich, the brother of actor Noah Emmerich, who