A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the Golden Age of television. Long before "The Twilight Zone" (1959), he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, both later turned into films (Patterns (1956) and Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)). Even The Twilight Zone featured forays into controversial grounds like racism, Cold War paranoia and the horrors of ...[Read Story]