269. "Twilight Zone" 60th Anniversary Panel with Gary Gerani, Nick Parisi and Anne Serling

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

To mark the 60th anniversary of the original "Twilight Zone," Gilbert and Frank welcome historian Gary Gerani, author NickParisi and Rod Serling's daughter Anne Serling, to discuss one of the most groundbreaking programs in television history -- and the man behind it. Also: Desi Arnaz leads the way, Ray Bradbury lends a hand, Richard Matheson joins the team and Anne reveals her dad's favorite TZ actors. PLUS: "Rod Serling's Night Gallery"! The brilliance of Bernard Herrmann (and Jerry Goldsmith)! Gilbert sends up Ed Wynn! Buster Keaton enters the Twilight Zone! And the panel picks their most underrated TZepisodes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I am Griffin Dunn and I have just opened my veins for the past two hours to Gilbert
0:13.5	Gottfried for his amazing colossal podcast.
0:16.3	I told him things I'm so ashamed of.
0:18.5	You must listen.
0:19.5	Bye.
0:20.5	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:50.4	With my co-host Frank Santopadre and our engineer Frank Ferdarosa.
0:57.0	Well, we had so much success with our recent Marx Brothers panel that we're trying something
1:04.3	similar this week to mark the 60th anniversary of a TV series that made it stay view way
1:13.7	back in 1959 and a show we've talked about extensively on this podcast, a little program
1:23.7	called The Twilight Zone.
1:27.7	All the screenwriter, trading card, king and former podcast guest Gary Gerrani has written
1:36.7	extensively about The Twilight Zone most notably in his essential 1977 book Fantastic
1:47.4	Television.
1:48.4	He's also provided audio commentaries for The Twilight Zone Blu-ray editions on episodes
1:56.6	including Living Doll, The Howling Man, Night of the Meek, Eye of the Beholder, Writer
2:05.0	Editor and Author Nicholas Parisi served on the board of the Rod Surling Memorial Foundation
2:14.4	dedicated to preserving and promoting Rod Surling's legacy and is the author of a terrific
2:24.2	comprehensive volume on Surling's prolific career.
2:30.4	2018's Rod Surling, his life work and imagination and finally and Surling is a teacher, lecturer,
2:43.4	writer who has adopted two of her father's teleplays into short stories, one for the angels
2:53.7	and the changing of the guard.
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