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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - Definition and Overview
The Twilight Zone original series
season one
Fall 1959 – Summer 1960
List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes:
  1. Where Is Everybody?
  2. One for the Angels
  3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday
  4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
  5. Walking Distance
  6. Escape Clause
  7. The Lonely
  8. Time Enough at Last
  9. Perchance to Dream
  10. Judgment Night
  11. And When the Sky Was Opened
  12. What You Need
  13. The Four of Us Are Dying
  14. Third From the Sun
  15. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
  16. The Hitch-Hiker
  17. The Fever
  18. The Last Flight
  19. The Purple Testament
  20. Elegy
  21. Mirror Image
  22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
  23. A World of Difference
  24. Long Live Walter Jameson
  25. People Are Alike All Over
  26. Execution
  27. The Big Tall Wish
  28. A Nice Place to Visit
  29. Nightmare as a Child
  30. A Stop at Willoughby
  31. The Chaser
  32. A Passage for Trumpet
  33. Mr. Bevis
  34. The After Hours
  35. The Mighty Casey
  36. A World of His Own

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Contents
1 Details
2 Cast
3 Synopsis
4 Trivia
5 Themes
6 References

Details

Episode number:22

Season: 1

Production code: 173-3620

Original air date: March 4, 1960

Writer: Rod Serling

Director: Ronald Winston

Music: Original score by Rene Garriguenc, conducted by Lud Gluskin

Cast

Steve Brand:Claude Akins

Charlie: Jack Weston

Tommy: Jan Handlik

Mr. Goodman: Barry Atwater

Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

After the power goes off on Maple Street, the inhabitants start to believe there is some kind of alien invasion, and keep accusing each other of being an invader. Eventually, one of the inhabitants of Maple Street is shot and the street erupts into violent chaos. It turns out that nobody on Maple Street was an alien, and that the power outage and other strange events were caused by alien invaders watching from outside Maple Street.

Trivia

Filmed on MGM's Andy Hardy street.

Themes

Often cited as Serling's warning against McCarthyism and the mass hysteria it produces. Similar themes are explored in Four O' Clock and The Shelter.

References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

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