Rod Serling Talks to Bob Crane about "The Shelter"

[alexjones2016]

Not as good as "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer.

But none the less Rod Serling is a good writer. Meyer is just great!

[LLLookAtYouHacker]

@alexjones2016

Moron. 

[alexjones2016]

@LLLookAtYouHacker God bless you

[cochranexyz]

It's SERLING, not STERLING. No t.

[AmericanSurvival101]

Hell on Earth is coming!! Its over folks!!!

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[Myytmovies]

sterling is a genius

not a fan of crane, but hopefully they find the killer

[zoodensha]

Very interesting discussion

[jscottupton]

For your consideration...

[50centgotshot9times]

rod sterling sounds like johnny depp

[QuorkEx]

An interesting interview. Thanks for putting it up.

[SuperOmnicron]

i forgot that Crane was a dj .... he was an interesting guy that had an unfortunate end.

[117Nomad]

Two or three thousand dollars to build a fallout shelter? Wow, those days are long gone...

[krugerfuchs]

i wish they were both still here

[dgb751]

i consider Rod to be a genius.

[fromthesidelines]

Rod ended "The Shelter" by having Dr. Bill Stockton {Larry Gates} soberly reflect on the fact that, in a crisis such as the one he and his neighbors just went through, "We're a bunch of wild, naked animals who put such a premium on staying alive, we'd gladly claw our neighbors to death, just for the privilege....we were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder....I wonder if we weren't destroyed, even without it".

[SuperOmnicron]

@fromthesidelines brilliant episode, and a very good writer and observer of humankind ....

[fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, Bob Crane's voice was briefly heard as a radio disc jockey in the episode "Static" {March 10, 1961}- he WAS a disc jockey for CBS' KNX affiliate in Los Angeles at the time. This excerpt from Crane's radio show was heard in October 1961, a month after "The Shelter" originally aired {September 29, 1961}. Bob later gave up his KNX show to become a regular on "THE DONNA REED SHOW" in the fall of 1963, then moved on to 'HOGAN'S HEROES".

[mistresskabuki]

I just love hearing his commentary for some of these episodes. This episode was particularly potent, I think.

[sjbosch56]

I don't know if it was the same panel discussion that Bob Crane referred to, but a Jesuit priest, Richard McBrien, was asked what would be a catholic response to a plea from someone begging to be let in to a bomb shelter. McBrien said that there was only once response a Christian could make is to give us up his place in the shelter.