David Bianculli

It includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free black people, the people excluded from the declaration, all men are created equal.

We'll talk about how that war, which he says was also civil war, echoes today.

I hope you can join us.

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For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm David Bianculli.

Rod Serling's most famous anthology series premiered in 1959 and was canceled in 1964.

But even those born too late to watch it on CBS during its original five-season run were very familiar with it decades later.

Local stations showed reruns in syndication, and kids would rush to their TV sets to watch it in the afternoons or sneak to watch it late at night.

Eventually, cable TV entered the mix, with networks like the Sci-Fi Channel presenting New Year's marathons of old Twilight Zone episodes, introducing Rod and his captivating ideas to an even newer generation of viewers.

But today, the TV universe is fragmented.

You still can watch every episode of the classic Twilight Zone on Paramount+.

But how many people, even those who subscribe to that streaming service, know it's there?

And Serling was anything but a one-hit, one-show wonder.

By the time he began hosting the Twilight Zone, he already had won three Emmys in a row for writing the live Golden Age dramas Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and The Comedian.

And after The Twilight Zone, he wrote the screenplays for Seven Days in May and Planet of the Apes.