In 1994, Serling and his partner, Roland Seeman, developed and shot a half-hour series pilot in Bosnia to share how others have selflessly dedicated their lives to help others.

The purpose of the shoot was to create a pilot episode for a show concept profiling the lives and actions of Americans working for aid organizations around the world. Serling and Seeman set an initial goal to profile American Red Cross volunteer Diane Paul, based out of Zagreb, Croatia. During the shoot they met and included footage of Toby Wolf of the International Organization for Migration and Sonya Thompson, a representative of the US military whose job was to coordinate daily medivac... three real American Heroes:. people who have dedicated themselves to selflessly relieving the suffering of others.—Michael Q. Schmidt