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Rod Sterling

Doo-Doo Doo-Doo

Arts, Culture & Media

Errant kid-carrying balloons, planes that overshoot the runway by 150 miles — these days, preternatural occurrences are the stuff of cable news. But 50 years ago, viewers tuned in to ‘The Twilight Zone’ to get their weekly eeriness fix. Before the ‘The Twilight Saga,’ and before ‘Paris Hilton’s My New BFF’ became the creepiest show […]

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