Rod Serling is best known as the narrator of The Twilight Zone. Serling, however, never intended to be the narrator of the series that he created. He always planned to be behind the scenes. Mostly by ...

The project that Orson Welles planned to film, in 1939, before turning his attention to “Citizen Kane” was a mystery called “Smiler with a Knife,” about a fascist plot to take over the United States.

Early home radios were frightful to operate. During the 1920s, consumer radios were powered by several batteries, the speaker was separate from the receiver, and the receiver contained a collection of ...