Excerpt: Robert J. Serling, an aviation writer known for the best-selling novel “The President’s Plane Is Missing,” died on May 6 in Tucson, Ariz. He was 92 and a longtime Tucson resident.
His daughter, Jennifer Serling, confirmed the death.
Published by Doubleday in 1967, Mr. Serling’s novel concerns the predicament in which the vice president finds himself after Air Force One disappears. The book spent 21 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was made into a 1973 TV movie starring Buddy Ebsen.
Jerome Robert Serling was born on March 28, 1918, in Cortland, N.Y., and reared in Binghamton, N.Y. (He deplored the name Jerome and switched his first and middle names as a young man, his daughter said.)
As a youth, Mr. Serling acted out plays in the family backyard with his younger brother, Rod, who would grow up to create the television series “The Twilight Zone.” As an adult, Robert Serling was a technical adviser on “The Odyssey of Flight 33,” an episode of “The Twilight Zone” that centers on a commercial airliner that hurtles mysteriously back through time.
Current LINKcat holdings: Robert J. Serling's books.
Current LINKcat holdings: New York Times bestseller list, April 7, 1968.
The Twilight Zone - Odyssey of Flight 33
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One of Retiring Guy's favorite episodes.
Only THE EXHIBIONIST, but you read it four times.
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