Steve sarcastically confirms this, but only manages to make matters worse. Another neighbor, Don, mentions that Steve has built a ham radio, which Charlie then claims no one has ever seen. Steve suggests Charlie go home and go to bed. Steve tries to defuse the situation and prevent it from becoming a witch-hunt, but tensions remain high.Īs darkness descends, Charlie begins keeping watch over Les Goodman's house. Les, defending himself as a resident of Maple Street for five years, claims to suffer from insomnia, admonishes his neighbors that they should take caution and not panic. As they all gather, one woman brings up Les' late nights spent standing in the garden looking up at the sky, as if waiting or looking for something. Charlie says Les had always been an oddball, and suggests they go over and investigate, while Steve urges them to be calm and not act like a mob. 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, 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. They gather in the street to discuss the situation.
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The residents soon discover that their power went off, affecting stoves, lawnmowers, cars, phones, even portable radios.
Everyone notices, but they assume that it is a meteor and quickly resume their activities.
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Maple Street is full of children playing and adults talking 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. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series.
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" 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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