PD and former BJ entertainment critic Mark Dawidziak is part of a triumvirate discussing Rod Serling on Cosmoetica poet/entertainment critic Dan Schneider’s online show.

Emmy winning filmmaker Mark Olshaker and Anne Serling-Sutton, Rod’s daughter, joined the conversation.

Ohio’s Mark credited Serling and Mark Twain (naturally) for sucking him into being a writer.

Serling wrote the ground-breaking “Twilight Zone” TV series that scared the beejeebees out of you but the Jew from Syracuse also stirred your thinking about social issues.

It probably didn’t hurt that Serling was a student at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a bastion of liberalism where I’ve seen Shakespeare plays in the tiny outdoor amphitheatre.

The Twain/Serling double hook obviously worked well: “Mark Twain’s Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Romance, Health and Happiness,” recently published, is Dawidziak’s 12^th book.

To watch the video, click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pu-0l3y-oE