The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is the 22nd episode of Season 1 of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964). The episode originally aired on March 4, 1960, directed by Ron Winston (1932-1973) with screenplay by show creator, presenter, and executive producer Rod Serling (1924-1975). The episode stars Steve Brand played by Claude Akins (1926-1994), who returned to The Twilight Zone in 1962 to play William Fletcher in the Season 3 episode “The Little People.” Beyond The Twilight Zone, Akins had an extensive career in mid-20th Century TV and film. The episode also features Tony and Golden Globe nominee Jack Weston (1924-1996) as Charlie and G. B. Atwater (1918-1978) as Les Goodman. Atwater would go on to appear in such shows as Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and The Night Stalker.

The Twilight Zone was originally produced and distributed by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), which is owned by Paramount Global at the time of writing. The Twilight Zone was followed by a series of reboots and spinoffs, including Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), The Twilight Zone’s first TV revival (1985-1989), Rod Serling’s Lost Classics (1994), the UPN reboot (2002-2003) hosted by Forrest Whitaker (1961), and the 2019 CBS All Access streaming series, narrated and developed by Jordan Peele (1979).