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The Mike Wallace Interview featuring Rod Serling (1959)

Paul Eres

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Public domain interview with Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone. Uploaded because we indie game developers can learn a lot from the parallels with early TV and the censorship and commercialization and the fight against it.

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20 Comments

@miket727 5 years ago

Intelligent, articulate, gifted, and creative man. Love his work.

@jonfleck8687 7 years ago

Picture if you will. An amazing orator. A writer. A creator. Devoid of recognition of his own thematic representation of excellence. Sitting in a chair, answering questions. He takes a journey that will lead him to a thoroughly adequate response to the questions he knows he must answer. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.

@stevenveganightowl12 5 years ago (edited)

Rod Serling just blew me away, way ahead of his time. Rod was fighting censorship and creating "Twilight Zone", this guy was the real deal.

@alecfoster4413 8 years ago

A courageous, brilliant, free-thinking, independent mind. I miss him.

@johnprovince5304 10 years ago

He described his own work as "temporarily adequate". He had no idea how great he really was.

@rockahbilly76 6 months ago

One of Wallace's best interviews. Rod was a true visionary.

@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush 7 years ago

Good God this man was a genius and he was brilliant. I admire him so much

@kenwilliamsvoice 5 years ago

I love how fluent their speech patterns were in the 50s. The words just flow. No half thoughts. Starts and stops. Ums, ahs. I could listen to Rod's smooth voice all day.

@brianyoung7854 5 years ago

Rod was a genius , well spoken , socially aware and so ahead of his time .

@lucasskywalker 12 years ago

Rod Serling...a real man.

@vintagestrings6 7 years ago

With Rod Serling, every letter-syllable counts. What an amazing mind.

@marshallholland2248 10 months ago

1:12 so crazy how the moment he starts speaking, you hear the iconic cadence and tone from all of those twilight zone monologues

@dariamorgendorffer1573 12 years ago

I love that Rod Serling was clever enough to hide his social commentary behind the guise of a fun and entertaining science fiction show and that he was able to get away with it. Great interview.

@jamesthompkins7404 12 years ago

Rod Serling is my all time favorite, he was about 60 years ahead of his time.

@oblivious108 3 years ago

Wow, this man was battling the same fights that's going on to this day. What a pioneer.

@thetuguar 6 years ago

"I've never written beneath myself, I've never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I've probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them, that have been on, I'll take my lick, they're mine, and that's the way I wanted them."

That's the most healthy way of looking at things for those who create art, any art. Wonderfully put.