Editing Rod Serling (section)

==Accolades==
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| rowspan=2|1955 || rowspan=3| [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s || [[8th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Best Original Teleplay Writing]] || "[[Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre)|Patterns]]" (''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'') || {{won}}
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| [[8th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Best Television Adaptation]] || "The Champion" (''Climax!'') || {{nom}}
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| rowspan=2|1956 || [[9th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Best Teleplay Writing]] || rowspan=2|"[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]" (''[[Playhouse 90]]'') || {{won}}
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| [[Peabody Awards]] || Personal Recognition for Writing || {{won}}
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| 1958 || rowspan=2| Primetime Emmy Awards || [[10th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Best Teleplay Writing]] || "[[The Comedian (Playhouse 90)|The Comedian]]" (''Playhouse 90'') || {{won}}
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| 1959 || [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series|Best Writing of a Single Dramatic Program One Hour or Longer]] || "[[A Town Has Turned to Dust (Playhouse 90)|A Town Has Turned to Dust]]" (''Playhouse 90'') || {{nom}}
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| 1960 || rowspan=3| Primetime Emmy Awards || [[12th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama]] || rowspan="4"|''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' || {{won}}
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| 1961 || [[13th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama]] || {{won}}
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| 1962 || [[14th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama]] || {{nom}}
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| 1962 || [[Golden Globe Awards]] || [[20th Golden Globe Awards#Best TV Producer.2FDirector|Best TV Producer/Director]] || {{won}}
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| 1963 || Primetime Emmy Awards || [[16th Primetime Emmy Awards#Writing|Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Adaptation]] || "It's Mental Work" (''[[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]'') || {{won}}
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===Posthumous honors===
* 1985: Inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees|title=Television Hall of Fame Honorees: Complete List| publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|Television Academy]] | access-date= November 1, 2016| archive-date= August 17, 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160817235606/http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees | url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1985: A star honoring Serling can be found at 6840 Hollywood Blvd. on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pearson|first1=Roberta|title=Star Trek and American Television|date=2014|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520959200|page=35}}</ref>
* 2001: Nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award and Winner of a Writer Guild Award for the reusing of his script for the re-make of "A Storm in Century".
* 2007: Ranked No. 1 on ''[[TV Guide]]'''s "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" list (the only non-fictitious person on the list)<ref>{{cite book|title=TV Guide Book of Lists|url=https://archive.org/details/tvguidebookoflis0000unse|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-3007-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/tvguidebookoflis0000unse/page/168 168]}}</ref>
* 2008: Inducted into the [[EMP Museum#Science Fiction Hall of Fame|Science Fiction Hall of Fame]]<ref name=hof2008/>