Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Episode name: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Episode number: 22 Season: 1 Original airdate: March 4, 1960 Writer: Rod Serling Director: Ronald Winston Notable cast members: Claude Akins, Jack Weston Episode Summary: After the power goes off on Maple Street, the inhabitants start to believe there is some kind of alien invasion, and keep accusing each other of being an invader. Eventually, one of the inhabitants of Maple Street is shot and it turns out nobody on Maple Street was a martian, the power cut and other strange events were caused by aliens outside of Maple Street. Trivia: Back to: The Twilight Zone, Episode List This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.