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‘Twilight Zone’ Creator Rod Serling’s Dark Past ‘Created a Pathway’ to His Success, Daughter Reveals

Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling’s dark past 'created a pathway' for his career, his daughter Jodi Serling exclusively tells Closer of her dad's life.

Get back to the Though he was called “Hollywood’s angry young man,” The Twilight Zone ’s creator and narrator, Rod Serling, was warm and funny at home. Rod wrote for radio and then television, but it was The Twilight Zone — where he cast such stars as Jack Klugman and Burgess Meredith and introduced a young Robert Redford — that really struck a chord with viewers. The nostalgic idyll made its way into The Twilight Zone episode “Walking Distance,” about a man who returns to his childhood hometown only to discover that time has stood still.

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