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"The Twilight Zone" (1959)Original Air Date:
29 September 1961 (Season 3, Episode 3)Plot:
A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Simplistic Today: Probably Pretty Startling Back Then moreCast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Larry Gates | ... | Dr. Stockton |
| Joseph Bernard | ... | Marty Weiss |
| Jack Albertson | ... | Jerry Harlowe |
| Peggy Stewart | ... | Grace Stockton |
| Sandy Kenyon | ... | Frank Henderson |
| Michael Burns | ... | Paul Stockton |
| Jo Helton | ... | Mrs. Harlowe |
| Moria Turner | ... | Mrs. Weiss |
| Mary Gregory | ... | Mrs. Henderson |
| John McLiam | ... | Man |
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The "Twilight Zone" always made a point of putting people into situations and then seeing what made them tick. This is about a man who has taken the government's warning to heart and built a fallout shelter for his family with predictable results. The episode begins with a birthday party where there is a range of personalities, all joking, having a good time. There is also a refreshing ethnic mix. This must have been a bit daring for the time. Of course, when a real attack is suspected, all hell breaks loose and the "true" nature of people emerges. This is a nice companion piece to "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." Desperation is what it's all about. It's a great example of how you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The denouement is strained and painful to watch, but it's probably pretty realistic. I recall that a man in my home town built a fallout shelter. I found out later that it is still there, being used as a storage shed. That "duck and cover" mentality seems almost amusing today, but I would be that some were envious of him in those days.