The UCLA Film and Television Archive continues
its look at the career of
Rod Serling—with special attention to his work outside of
Twilight Zone and
Night Gallery—through September 19. Coming up are his celebrated
Requiem for a Heavyweight (and "The Man in the Funny Suit," which focuses on the making of
Requiem) as well as
Planet of the Apes; lesser known is
The Yellow Canary (1963), in which Pat Boone plays a musician whose son is kidnapped. In addition, the archive showed
Let Us Continue, a U.S. Information Agency short film written by Serling in the wake of the JFK assassination that profiled President Lyndon Johnson and his public policy interests. Also on view was the 1969 pilot for "The New People" (which bears a resemblance to
Lost) written by Serling and starring Richard Kiley.
Update. Television Obscurities discusses an
alternative version of
The New People pilot.
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