Directors Guillermo del Toro and Jeannot Szwarc talk about Rod Serling's Night Gallery with host Jim Benson on the TV Time Machine podcast. Guillermo del Toro is a legendary horror director (Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Cabinet of Curiosities) and Jeannot Szwarc directed twenty-two episodes of the classic Rod Serling horror series that aired on NBC from 1970-1973.

Guillermo Del Toro and Jeannot Szwarc talk Rod Serling's Night Gallery on TV Time Machine

Today on the TV Time Machine, we welcome Taylor White and Scott Skelton, as we discuss the all-new book about the making of the classic horror television series, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour. 

Mr. White is the founder and proprietor of Creature Features, which specializes in publishing a variety of TV, movie, and horror genre books, and Mr. Skelton, along with your host, has co-authored three books based on Rod Serling's Night Gallery--An After-Hours Tour; The Art of Darkness, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour-- Second Edition.

Over the next segment, the three of us will discuss the creation of this all-new, 824-page tome, featuring hundreds of all-new color and black and white photographs, dozens of brand-new interviews with Night Gallery cast and crew, and we'll also talk about the Kickstarter campaign for Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An-After Hours Tour, now currently in progress.

So please join us on the TV Time Machine, as we take our own private tour, with Taylor White and Scott Skelton, through Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.

Jim Benson Scott Skelton Taylor White discuss their New Rod Serling's Night Gallery Book

In this audio edition of the TV Time Machine, we welcome Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Executive Producer of Washington. Ms. Goodwin is a world-renowned Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author of many Presidential biographies including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgerald’s and the Kennedy’s, and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Over the next segment, Doris Kearns Goodwin will talk about Washington, a three night Documentary Miniseries chronicling the life and career of our nation’s first President, airing on The History Channel. Again, for those of you intrepid enough to cross the Delaware, feel free to take a three-day weekend, as we declare our independence from the present, in order to visit a revolutionary past!

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