Cast: Rod Serling
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Rod Serling. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 55
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik
Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman
Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.
8.0
4K votes
8.0
4K votes
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (TV Series)
1966 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States
Direction Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Philippe Cousteau · Patrick Watson · Joe Thompson
Cast Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Rod Serling
Synopsis TV Series (1966–1976). 37 Episodes. In the series, we see the scientific expeditions of the renowned sea explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of his ship, the Calypso. They go around the globe exploring various regions of the underwater world...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Night Gallery (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney
Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price
Synopsis Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such...
6.9
166 votes
6.9
166 votes
Night Gallery (TV)
1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg
Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall
Synopsis In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first involves a black sheep nephew (Roddy McDowall) who murders his...
6.5
203 votes
6.5
203 votes
The Twilight Zone: Probe 7, Over and Out (TV)
1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Ted Post
Cast Richard Basehart · Antoinette Bower · Barton Heyman · Harold Gould
Synopsis Colonel Cook stranded on another planet with no hope for rescue meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.
6.4
55 votes
6.4
55 votes
Night Gallery: Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven (TV)
1971 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Jeff Corey · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Marty Allen · Ross Martin · Barbara Rush · Rene Auberjonois
Synopsis A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down...
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Night Gallery: The Dead Man/The Housekeeper (TV)
1970 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Douglas Heyes · John Meredyth Lucas
Cast Carl Betz · Jeff Corey · Louise Sorel · Michael Blodgett
Synopsis Dr. Redford's patient John Fearing can mimic any disease's symptoms, and is having an affair with Mrs. Redford. / Cedric Acton, a student of the black arts, plans to replace his cruel wife Carlotta's soul with that of a kind...
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Night Gallery: Make Me Laugh/Clean Kills and Other Trophies (TV)
1970 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Walter Doniger · Steven Spielberg
Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Tom Bosley · Jackie Vernon · Raymond Massey
Synopsis A fading comic asks a miracle worker's help in making people laugh. / Big game hunter Colonel Archie Dittman pressures his meek son to take up the sport or be disinherited.
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Night Gallery: The Waiting Room/Last Rites for a Dead Druid (TV)
1972 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Bill Bixby · Steve Forrest · Carol Lynley · Albert Salmi
Synopsis Gunslinger Sam Dichter rests in a saloon with outlaws who await their punishment. / Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him.
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Night Gallery: Die Now, Pay Later (TV)
1973 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Timothy Galfas
Cast Will Geer · Slim Pickens · Rod Serling
Synopsis Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.
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Night Gallery: The Diary/A Matter of Semantics/Big Surprise/Professor Peabody's Last Lecture (TV)
1971 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jerrold Freedman · William Hale · Jack Laird
Cast Patty Duke · Virginia Mayo · David Wayne · Cesar Romero
Synopsis A strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future. / Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request. / Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. / Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian...
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Legend of Lake Titicaca (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau)
1969 · Documentary · 50 min. · France
Direction Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Roger Brenot
Cast Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Rod Serling
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Night Gallery: Pickman's Model/The Dear Departed/An Act of Chivalry (TV)
1971 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeff Corey · Jack Laird
Cast Bradford Dillman · Louise Sorel · Steve Lawrence · Maureen Arthur
Synopsis Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home. / A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery. / When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.
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Night Gallery: You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please (TV)
1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Jack Laird
Cast Ozzie Nelson · Harriet Hilliard · Roger Davis · Michael Lerner
Synopsis Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet. / A photographer meets a vampire.
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Night Gallery: Room for One Less (TV)
1973 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jack Laird
Cast Lee J. Lambert · James Metropole · Rod Serling
Synopsis In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another...
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Night Gallery: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes//The Hand of Borgus Weems (TV)
1971 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Gene R. Kearney · John Meredyth Lucas
Cast Clint Howard · Michael Constantine · Sue Lyon · Joseph Campanella
Synopsis A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the...
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Night Gallery: Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Satisfaction Guaranteed (TV)
1971 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jerrold Freedman · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Vincent Price · E.G. Marshall · Imogene Coca · Desi Arnaz Jr.
Synopsis Fleeing thief Doran hides in the funeral home of odd Mr Soames. / A wife uses bricks and mortar to help her ill husband. / A college professor administers a chilling oral exam with a dystopian twist. / Witches prepare...
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Night Gallery: The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes (TV)
1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Gary Lockwood · Joan Van Ark · Chuck Connors · Ralph Manza
Synopsis Newly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is taken to a mysterious elite hotel, where he's to fight an old boxing champ that no one has ever beaten.
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Night Gallery: Green Fingers/The Funeral/The Tune in Dan's Cafe (TV)
1972 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · John Meredyth Lucas · David Rawlins
Cast Joe Flynn · Cameron Mitchell · Pernell Roberts · Werner Klemperer
Synopsis Nasty land developer Mike Saunders is ready to destroy a widow with a green thumb to get her land. / Morton Silkline arranges a late funeral for an unusual client, Ludwig Asper. / A jukebox in a diner repeatedly plays...
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Night Gallery: The Return of the Sorcerer (TV)
1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Vincent Price · Tisha Sterling · Bill Bixby · Rod Serling
Synopsis Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.
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