The

The Whenever I hear that a new book is being released about the Twilight Zone,

one of the first questions that comes into my head is what does this add to the story and I don't mean that in a

negative way but I think it's a valid question because after 60 years what is there left to say

now that's probably rich coming from someone who hosts a twilight zone podcast but over that time we've had Mark Zichry's Twilight Zone companion,

we've had Unlocking the Door to a television classic by Martin Graham's Jr.

And we've had Douglas Brody's book, Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone,

to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

And they're just a few.

There are several more. And the good thing thing is for the most part they all add a little bit of a different thing to the whole conversation about the twilight zone but with each new one that becomes harder to do but what about books Sailing himself? Well the obvious first go-to

book is, as I knew him, my dad, Rod Sailing, by his daughter Anne Sailing. And if you think back

to when Anne was on the show, she spoke about how there were other biographies out there but she felt there were factual inaccuracies

and that was one of the reasons why she felt she needed to write her own book to kind of put those to rest.

Now ever since I had that conversation with Arne I think I've been

understandably wary of approaching other Rod Sailing biographies and at the end

of the day that book is so definitive that is there anything else left to learn?

Well it turns out that actually there is. Today I'm going to be speaking

to the author of a book called Unknown Sailing and Episodic History Volume 1 and the

subtitle is The Bradbury Kennedy Pentagon and World War II stories.

The author is Amy Boyle Johnson and I'll speak to her in a moment.

At the beginning of the book Amy acknowledges that she's not treading the same ground as

Anne Sailing, of course, how could she?

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