Top 13 Twilight Zone Rod Serling Intro Appearances 

You know you're screwed when Rod Serling appears out of nowhere and begins to narrate your life

Whoever came up with this idea, for him to just interject in the scene without being acknowledged was a genius.

Rod Serling is as cool as the other side of the pillow.

The way he just fucking emerges from the bushes is hilarious.

When I was a kid watching TZ, he scared the living hell outta me. Now that I'm an adult, he's the coolest and I geek out for him.

Rod Serling will always be the king of fourth wall breakers.

When Rod Serling appears, there is no going out of the Twilight Zone

Me lying in bed instead of studying* Closet door opens* Rod Serling appearing out of a once emptied closet - " the lonely heart of an academic falls victim to the loudness of silence. Amidst his need to perpetuate his field of study, he lies to himself and says he will start tomorrow. Little does he know, the teacher posted the new time in space in which the test will take place. Will this man, a student of academics, arise to face an old challenge or will he sleep himself into an abyss of failure in which he will soon come to awaken with a few hours notice? Find out next time, on the Twilight Zone.

when I watched episodes of the twilight zone, I was always impressed by this man's charisma and elegance.

Chris Hansen wishes he had this finesse

Drax: I am the Invisible Man Rod Serling: Sit down, be humble.

Rod is one of my favorite people. Prolific writer, ahead of his time. Progressive powerful person in the 1950's. True believer. Great historical figure.

Rod Serling is an absolute classic. There has never been any better wisdom fiction than his. He is one of the major influences in my life. Rest in peace philosopher and friend of humanity, Mr. Rod Serling.

60+ years later still the best show in TV history.

Had Rod lived longer, he would have been right there with Spielberg and Lucas. I promise you.

Pure genius. A man who seen a lot then decided to give something to society to not only ponder upon but to help them think deeply on topics that can affect them societally, personally, and even beyond the realm of reason. The Twilight Zone was a great gift given to many generations by a truly great visionary, Rod Serling

Mr. Serling sure knew how to make an entrance.

Rod Serling : he’ll soon enter, the twilight z......... random person: hey who the hell are you. People screaming 😱

Rod serling will always be the greatest TV legend of the 1960's.

I was sad that they stopped doing this "Rod Serling emerges from on-set" thing but happy for the time they did it, it was funny every time for me

Am I the only one who found these random appearances amusing.....

Anytime I watched these I would think how hilarious would it be if one of the people just stopped what they were doing and just asked him "who are you talking to?"

That mirror part was a trip.....

3:20 and 4:02 seem like they would be great James Bond intro scenes. Just the music, mystery and iconic camera angles are enough to have me sold.

0:33 - Love the early 1960's T-Bird that Rod is leaning on. Of course ANYTHING with Rod Serling in it is awesome.

Rod: Looks like I'll be taking an unexpected journey into the Twi-- 4:38

The absolute BEST narrator EEEVVVVEEERRRRR! 💯

I remember when Dan Aykroyd played Rod Serling on SNL doing the intro!! But nothing is better than Mr. Serling!!

Number 1 was a very scary Twilight Zone episode. The little girl in another dimension as discovered only through a wall behind a bed

I could easily watch a 2 hour movie of just him rambling.

they shoulda put the *MIDNIGHT SUN* appearance no#2 that was a good one!

It's a shame these stopped in the later seasons

I watched this series as a kid when it was first being made. I so very much enjoyed R.S. and his intros and outros...they way they were done. And now older and hopefully wiser...I enjoy these and the series even more. Such a great series.. one of the best ever...but too far above the average viewer today to comprehend and appreciate.

Do the eyebrow flex, the attitude follows

One of the Top Ten TV shows in history!

:59 seconds if I'm outside that elevator and it opens to Rod standing there I'm immediately running lol. No time for the brilliant intro 🏃

he just a legend

When people smoked on tv!

Submitted for your approval, the once humble writer, now equipped with a timeslot that in his eye, requires his appearance in front of the lense. The storyteller with aspirations of grandeur now equipped with a platform which can edit his peers work and make and cost him many friends. Only today, Mr. Serling will be informed that his show will continue in a one hour timeslot. The kind of hellish test he would normally concieve for the Twilight Zone.

Genius, pure genius!

This is fantastic

Great work, 13! All excellent choices. The intro for "The Dummy" is another favorite of mine, similar in theme to the "Nick of Time" intro.

What a Legend

Imagine if your car breaks in the middle of the woods and tries to call somebody when all of a sudden you see rod sterling walk out from behind a tree *that’s where you loose your mind*

#8 Rod looks so suave and bad ass in that pose

This is Awesome

The pool table part made me lose my shit 😂😂

*Rod can appear on almost everywhere, even on an angry volcano.*

I love how you got "Colonel Bat Guano" in there at the end (if that really is his name)

I think #9 is my most favorite of Serling’s appearances. The way he ominously appears on the tv screen and can freeze time is so chilling. That said, the whole plot expository device of him appearing also does a great job of adding tension, especially considering his appearances are at random and this gives him an almost supernatural vibe. As if he’s a powerful observer ruminating on the follies of man.

Serling’s on-screen narration of “A Game of Pool” is my favorite overall

Rod Serlings the man. Tales from the crypt had the crypt keeper, CreepShow has the Creep. Twilight Zone has Rod, and he's cooler than all of em.

Moral Kombat? Dude, Rod Serling coined it!

The intro's and closing are classic. I wish they had done the entire intro's instead of a short medley though.

I loved when he did this - my favorite is from "Midnight Sun" when two women not only see and hear him they become outright frightened by his words.

Excellent.....truly excellent....a delightful choices of intros and the best way to end the vid....THE VERY BEST closing. NICELY DONE!!!

The best intro you picked was actually a scene at the end of the episode but I agree, it's my favorite Rod appearance for sure. I also liked "Room for one more" where he comes out of the Morgue.

These intros are cool but when I read books that contains 20 pages back to back of these kinds of introductions to characters I’m so done xD

A Thing About Machines should be #1. It's just so meta, in a TV on a TV! What You Need also needs to be here, it has the best line in any intro. The one about the chip on his shoulder the size of the national debt. 😁

the real g man

I Love It a Lot. :-D

Number two is an excellent episode...

I need to watch the series

He's a legend

Every time I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone, I feel Rod Serling is missing.

Best ending ever! In more ways than one!

The unseen pilot of The Twilight Zone was narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Rod Serling wanted either him or actor Richard Egan to be narrator but neither was available. Orson Welles was offered the spot but wanted too much money. And that's why Rod Serling became the tour guide to The Twilight Zone. 👾

my mother says she met rod serling on a plane once when she was a kid, it scared the shit out of her lol.

I'm using number 6 as a ringtone

He's one for the ages loved the twlightzone

Why can't we have movies like this again🤔👈

When my dad had a heart attack and loaded him into the ambulance, He was expecting the EMT to say " do you want to see something really scary!"

Rod Serling and John Facenda were the best narrators in history. Morgan Freeman is no slouch either.

Irony is when Rod Serling tees off someones story and plight. But as we saw in the Outro at 4:16, even the immortal Rod couldn't always escape uncanny irony!

When rod serling brought up Mortal Kombat it made me just wanting to play mortal Kombat as scorpion and sub zero.

Johnathan Harris (i e Dr. Zackary Smith) of Lost in Space fame makes memorable appearance as a sleazy physician in TZ episode, Twenty two.

Legend, all the way

0:44 Rod Serling’s Spider-Man powers

Rod Sterling would be a legit SCP titled "the narrator"

Great use of TZ music between intros!

3 packs of cigarettes a day and dead at age 50. i hate cigarettes

It would've been interesting to see Rod Serling write an episode of "Sapphire&Steel".

Imagine being a construction worker heading to the elevator after you finish a job and fuckin' Rod Serling shows up in the elevator. Worker: "You here for the millionaire or me?" Serling: "The millionaire, you're not due until next week." Worker: "Thanks ma- wait, what?"

Here is a question... Is Rod Sterling the God of the Twilight universe? He moves through the world as he pleases. He knows the beginning and end of every story , and is not affected by the universe

You know I always feel there’s an edge in his voice when he talks about Bartlett Finchley from a Thing about Machines. I’ve often wondered if he based him on someone he didn’t like.

Chile 🇨🇱 la gente no me cree cuando digo que Carlos Pinto intentaba imitar estas apariciones en Mea Culpa

It would've been awesome if he had actually physically appeared in the series.

Donned the dramatic openings before Chris Hansen Lol

I wish you would have done the whole intro for each.

I’ve been a serious twilight zone fan for my whole life and I just now found out it’s Serling and not Sterling

The entrance I loved was when the maid gets thrown down a huge flight off stairs and it is revealed that she, along with the rest of the butlers and maids are roberts. As they march in unison off screen, the last oke to appear was Rod Serling. I cant remember the name of the episode though.

Whenever one thinks of the Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner, they think of the one with the gremlin on the wing of the plane. But how they forget the one with the fortune telling machine. I believe the latter is by far the better episode. I also prefer the original title to number 3 ... A Private World of Darkness. The common title gives too much away, which is not a trait of the Zone.

He's like an Evil Tom Scott in this way, innit?

In the description, I noticed that they didn't give the name of the outro episode. I had to do a little searching because I didn't recognize it and didn't remember an episode where the characters interacted with Rod. The title is A World Of His Own, season 1, episode 36.

cool as the under belly of a glacier

It would interesting if you added the tower of terror pre show, because rod serling was in the most pre show

What episode is the outro from?

Look at that suite he wears. Classic. 😁👈

Seems to me that some of the music cues are very similar to those found in classic Trek episodes

Barton Finchley - Barton Fink?