Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation is deciding whether to hold an in-person SerlingFest this October in Binghamton, New York, similar to our past events. The preliminary plan is to hold a three-day festival, Friday through Sunday, Oct 15-17. The specific activities and guests are uncertain, but one of these days would likely be devoted to a festival of rarely seen Rod Serling TV series and films, while another day would be devoted to things like author signings, readings, pr...esentations and performances. We realize that more information would be needed for anyone to make a firm commitment, but we need to assess the general interest in such an event - especially considering the ongoing COVID situation. Please take a minute to respond to our survey, and post your thoughts here on our page. Thanks! https://www.allcounted.com/s?did=wpvmdjzl0mauv&lang=en_US

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Today, we wish a very happy birthday to our friend, Tom Elliot, host of the unparalleled The Twilight Zone podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com//the-twilight-zone-/id392364162). Thanks for everything you do to keep Rod’s legacy alive.

We miss you, Rod Serling! Rod Serling left us on June 28, 1975 at the age of 50. In this image he is seen in the world he created, Twilight Zone, which resona...ted with audiences as he portrayed the search for truth and cures for the human condition in fantasy and sci-fi themes. While Twilight Zone personified him, Serling created or wrote for many other shows, among them Night Gallery, a color update to many of the Twilight Zone themes. But his last performance was among the strangest, an otherworldly radio performance called Fantasy Park. Fantasy Park was a 48-hour-rock concert carried on nearly 200 radio shows on Labor Day Weekend 1975. It featured many of the biggest acts of the time, including a Beatles reunion. The only catch was it was imaginary, a theatre of the mind for the 70’s, using recordings of live albums and snippets of crowd noise and other audio effects. Serling was recruited to record the host segments, and he wrote disclaimers for the show such as this one: Hello, this is Rod Serling, and welcome back to Fantasy Park- the crowds here today are unreal. This is Fantasy Park, the greatest live concert never held. Robert M. Thompson created this Vintage TV Art image for the classic Twilight Zone series. For more, see us here: www.vintagetvart.com www.ebay.com/str/vintagetvart www.etsy.com/store/vintagetvart Own a piece of television history! #rodserling #twilightzone #nightgallery #fantasypark

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, Oh, he was a writer. That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

A bit over two centuries ago, June 16, 1816, Mary Shelley on the left invented Science Fiction when she wrote Frankenstein. About 150 years later Lucille Bal...l on the right championed a script nobody wanted, paid for the pilot and fought the money people back enough for Star Trek to get made. (She also had a hand in Westinghouse Desilou Playhouse which gave Rod Serling the big break he needed to get The Twilight Zone produced.) The mother of science fiction, and the godmother of modern science fiction, we salute you.