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"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is the 22nd episode in the first season of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series. It originally aired on March 4, 1960, on CBS. In 2009, TIME named it one of the ten best Twilight Zone episodes. [1]
In an updated version of the original series episode The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, an unexpected power and water failure prompts the residents (Andrew McCarthy, Titus Welliver, Kristi Angus, and Peter Williams) of a quiet suburban neighborhood to grow increasingly suspicious of their new neighbors and accuse them of being terrorist ...
Episodes such as "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" offered specific commentary on current events and social issues. Other stories, such as " The Masks ", " I Dream of Genie ", or " Mr. Denton on Doomsday " were allegories , parables , or fables that reflected the moral and philosophical choices of the ...
The intruder frantically warns that his partner, Gresham, is dead; and that the planet is inhabited by a race of giants impossible to defeat. The ship is marked U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1. The invaders were astronauts from Earth; the woman in the small farmhouse belongs to a race of humanoids native to another planet. She destroys the ...
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21 Jump Street – composed by Liam Sternberg; performed by Holly Robinson; 227 ("There's No Place Like Home") – Ray Colcord, performed by Marla Gibbs; 24 – Sean Callery; 240-Robert – Mike Post and Pete Carpenter; 3-2-1 Contact – Tom Anthony; 3-2-1 Penguins! ("3–2–1 Penguins! Theme Song") – Kurt Heinecke; 30 Rock – Jeff Richmond
Travisl 03:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC the ones on Maple street were the aliens and the residents the residents were the monsters. with the twilight zone as a state of mind you can assume how scary this was —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.238.35.72 21:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Serling, who wrote the episode, reused the theme for a later teleplay, "The Different Ones", for his series Night Gallery. "The Different Ones" takes place in a futuristic world where a disfigured hermit teenage boy is sent on a NASA rocket to a planet where the inhabitants are revealed to look like him. During the transfer he meets a ...