This, coupled with the fact that Les didn't rush outside when things started, makes the neighbors suspect that Les may be an alien. As he is walking over to join the other residents, the car starts by itself. The adults are incredulous, assuring him that the cause is natural.Īnother resident, Les Goodman, tries unsuccessfully to start his car. Tommy adds that in the story, the aliens are living as a family that appears to be human but who are actually scouts, and the power outage that they cause is meant to isolate the neighborhood. Tommy has read a story of an alien invasion causing similar issues, and says that the monsters do not want anyone to leave the street. His neighbors, Steve Brand and Charlie Farnsworth, decide to go into town to investigate further, but Tommy, a neighborhood boy, urges them not to go. Pete Van Horn, hammer slung in his bib overalls, volunteers to walk over to Floral Street, the next street over, to see if it is affected as well. The residents soon discover that their power went off, affecting stoves, lawnmowers, cars, phones, even portable radios, and they gather in the street to discuss the situation. Everyone notices, but they shrug it off as a passing meteor and quickly resume their activities. One late-summer afternoon, Maple Street is full of children playing and adults talking, and doing yardwork when a shadow passes over, accompanied by a roar and a flash of light. Maple Street in the last calm and reflective moment –before the monsters came. This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon. The narration continues after the neighbors wonder if what flew overhead was a meteor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be precisely 6:43 P.M. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor. In 2009, TIME named it one of the ten best Twilight Zone episodes. It originally aired on March 4, 1960, on CBS. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series. " The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is episode 22 in the first season of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1)
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