The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
- Episode aired Mar 4, 1960
- TV-PG
- 25m
On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Mrs. Goodman
- (as Lea Waggner)
- Alien
- (as William Walsh)
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
- Ice-Cream Vendor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe location used for Maple Street was later reused as the abandoned town in Stopover in a Quiet Town (1964).
- GoofsWhen the neighbors go over to talk to Les Goodman about his car starting, as he walks onto his porch, you can see his address is 321, and there is a porch light. When he starts to explain his insomnia, you can see there are just holes on the front of the house where the address and light were. Then, as night falls and his wife brings his a glass of milk on the porch, the address and light are there again.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Closing Narration] The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited from Forbidden Planet (1956)
Then all kinds of strange things start happening. Power going on and off and all kinds of finger pointing is started. Could one of these neighbors not be what they seem?
Claude Akins for once not a cruel and psychotic villain tries to be the voice of reason. Counterbalancing Akins is Jack Weston who starts throwing suspicion in every direction.
The story fresh from the paranoid McCarthy 50s is a warning about not rushing to judgment and giving way to panic. We could use a little of that today, wisdom from Rod Serling in a timeless classic.
Almost like Vladimir Putin watched this show.
- bkoganbing
- Oct 24, 2018
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1