In 1959, Rod Serling, a New Yorker turned Hollywood screenwriter, was the brooding type: a man that could not be satisfied. It was in his own darkness — of having achieved acclaim as well as fame, only to have TV sponsors and executives pull it all out from under him — that he dreamed up The Twilight Zone.
See and hear Serling in an interview with Mike Wallace just before the The Twilight Zone‘s first broadcast.
