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"The Twilight Zone" The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960)
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"The Twilight Zone" (1959)Original Air Date:
4 March 1960 (Season 1, Episode 22)Plot:
On a peaceful city street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stokes the residents' paranoid to disastrous intensity. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Paranoia Personified moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Rod Serling | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Steve Brand | |
| Barry Atwater | ... | Les Goodman | |
| Jack Weston | ... | Charlie Farnsworth | |
| Jan Handzlik | ... | Tommy | |
| Amzie Strickland | ... | Woman | |
| Burt Metcalfe | ... | Don Martin | |
| Mary Gregory | ... | Sally | |
| Jason Johnson | ... | Man | |
| Anne Barton | ... | Myra Brand | |
| Leah Waggner | ... | Mrs. Goodman (as Lea Waggner) | |
| Joan Sudlow | ... | Old Woman | |
| Ben Erway | ... | Pete Van Horn | |
| Lyn Guild | ... | Mrs. Farnsworth | |
| Sheldon Allman | ... | Alien |
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Filming Locations:
Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAFun Stuff
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Narrator: 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 its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. moreFAQ
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Another of the truly classic episodes. It is set on an everyman street in an everyman town. This is on purpose because it's made to show how everyone is a friendly neighbor, washing cars, mowing lawns, doing that day to day stuff. All of a sudden, the power goes out. Not the usual transformer malfunction, but power to everything, even gas engines. It makes no sense to them. Then a boy makes a fatal mistake. He relates a science fiction story and gets them all worked up. Soon they are turning on each other. One engine starts and that person is seen as a threat. They think the monsters are within their mini-culture. It then escalates until each of them begins to believe terrible things about their recently loving friends. A shooting occurs and the world turns into chaos.
I guess a criticism of this would be that it is really simplistic and contrived. How would you get people to act predictably. There are way too many variables, way too many possibilities that could go wrong. Of course, we need to suspend the disbelief to allow it to captivate us. It's one of the most famous of the Twilight Zones and is even anthologized in high school textbooks.