The Scary Door

August 29, 2010 10:15 PM

Lost Rod Serling Video Interview
posted by Artw (20 comments total)

i love this.
posted by empath at 10:20 PM on August 29, 2010

His two favorite episodes are The Invaders and Time Enough at Last.

Man, I love The Twilight Zone.
posted by disillusioned at 10:45 PM on August 29, 2010

do not forget the Sterling Rod film..'Twilite Pink' (1981)
posted by clavdivs at 11:19 PM on August 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

...reaches for his smokes...
posted by clavdivs at 11:20 PM on August 29, 2010

The Twilight Zone Introduction

Anyone else slightly wierded out by seeing him in colour and in an informal setting?
posted by Artw at 11:25 PM on August 29, 2010

Can't wait to see the series on Blu-ray this fall. Should look beautiful (well, the filmed ones, at least).
posted by inturnaround at 11:52 PM on August 29, 2010

Also, everyone should pronounce the word "robot" as ro-bit. That's the first command I'll make when I'm king of the world.
posted by inturnaround at 11:54 PM on August 29, 2010 [4 favorites]

This is awesome, thanks. Rod Serling was so far ahead of his time.

Anyone else slightly wierded out by seeing him in colour and in an informal setting?

The top of his face was a weird shade of red. Some effect of lighting + damaged film?
posted by cj_ at 12:20 AM on August 30, 2010

The top of his face was a weird shade of red. Some effect of lighting + damaged film?

It used to be a lot more acceptable to drink liquor with lunch.
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:41 AM on August 30, 2010

This is great. That wonderfully familiar voice. I grew up with the Twilight Zone series and recently I acquired all episodes and methodically re-watched them all; taking in much more than I did the first time (and subsequent re-runs).

I like his homage to Kubrick ("he would put us out of business in two days of shooting").

Nice find, Artw.
posted by rmmcclay at 1:39 AM on August 30, 2010

So sad that he died so young at fifty. You'd think that he had many more stories to get out.
posted by octothorpe at 4:49 AM on August 30, 2010

It used to be a lot more acceptable to drink liquor with lunch.

The good old days....

also: Rod Serling is The Man.
posted by jonmc at 5:01 AM on August 30, 2010

ROD SERLING WAS NEVER IN LOST.
posted by blue_beetle at 5:38 AM on August 30, 2010 [1 favorite]

So sad that he died so young at fifty

The quip at the beginning about smoking made me more than a little sad
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:46 AM on August 30, 2010

More Mr. Serling.
posted by phunniemee at 6:55 AM on August 30, 2010

Looks like those videos have all been pulled, which is a damn shame.
posted by Artw at 8:05 AM on August 30, 2010

It used to be a lot more acceptable to drink liquor with lunch.

that's changed?
posted by philip-random at 8:37 AM on August 30, 2010

I will keep that image of him smoking in my mind for sometime
His life long smoking habit was considered a likely cause of his death.
posted by robbyrobs at 9:25 AM on August 30, 2010

I also cringed when he quipped about god telling him to quit smoking. To be fair, apparently both his father and grandfather died young of heart disease, so there's a decent chance it was hereditary. But still.
posted by cj_ at 11:33 PM on August 30, 2010

MindFood: Bring Back 'The Twilight Zone'
posted by Artw at 4:34 PM on September 15, 2010