The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
The Twilight Zone episode
Lea Waggner and Barry Atwater
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 22
Directed by	Ronald Winston
Written by	Rod Serling
Production code	173-3620
Original air date	March 4, 1960 (1960-03-04)
Guest appearances
Claude Akins as Steve Brand Barry Atwater as Les Goodman Jack Weston as Charlie Burt Metcalfe as Don Martin Amzie Strickland as unnamed neighbor Anne Barton as Mrs. Brand Jan Handzlik as Tommy Mary Gregory as Sally Lea Waggner as Mrs. Goodman Ben Erway as Pete Van Horn Sheldon Allman and Bill Walsh as the real aliens
Episode chronology
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1)
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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]