Direction: Rod Serling
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Rod Serling. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
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
Plot 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...
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8.0
4K 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
Plot 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...
6.9
166 votes
6.9
166 votes
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Paul Lynch · Peter Medak · Ryszard Bugajski
Cast William Atherton · Jenny Agutter · Martin Balsam · Jeffrey Tambor
Plot A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
2002 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John T. Kretchmer · Brad Turner · Allan Kroeker
Cast Forest Whitaker · Jeremy Piven · Zeljko Ivanek · Jeffrey Combs
Plot What began in 1959 with the great Rod Serling continues into the 21st century with a new host, Forest Whitaker, with completely new stories. Although there are minor similarities to...
6.2
648 votes
6.2
648 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
Plot 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....
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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.
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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,...
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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
Plot 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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Night Gallery: Spectre in Tap-Shoes (TV)
1972 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc
Cast Sandra Dee · Dane Clark · Christopher Connelly · Russell Thorson
Plot After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.
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Night Gallery: Something in the Woodwork (TV)
1973 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Edward M. Abroms
Cast Rod Serling · Geraldine Page · Leif Erickson · Paul Jenkins
Plot Spurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objection.
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