Knowing they all can’t fit inside the shelter doesn’t stop them from trying to bust it open (and ensuring that nobody ends up protected). “We’d have a whole mob to contend with,” one neighbor forewarns, “a whole bunch of strangers.” Ironically, these people don’t realize that they have already degenerated into a mob themselves, acting irrationally and violently amidst their fear. One of them, Frank, exhibits an ugly anti-Semitic streak, railing against “foreigners” like his friend Marty Weiss, “pushy, grabby semi-Americans.” The line between self and other gets sharply etched when the idea of obtaining a pipe (to use as a battering ram) from a man on an adjacent street is raised, the group bristles at the thought of letting anyone else know about the existence of the shelter. Turned away, the desperate neighbors quickly turn on each other. And thus the fallout begins before any bomb drops. Regretfully, the doctor cannot oblige them, since the shelter is designed for three people only (Stockton, his wife Grace, and son Paul). Soon thereafter, Doctor Stockton’s frantic friends and neighbors return, begging him to admit them into the bomb shelter in the cellar of his home (the very refuge they previously ridiculed him for building). A state of yellow alert is promptly declared, and citizens are advised to take shelter. 8 DVD along with " Third from the Sun", " To Serve Man" and " The Fugitive".In this 1961 episode from season 3 of The Twilight Zone, a birthday party for a beloved doctor is interrupted by a sobering report on the radio: the government has detected unidentified objects rocketing towards the U.S. This episode is included on the Image Entertainment Vol. Often thought of as among the finest episodes. It discusses how people can show their true colors in a pressure situation and become savages if it means that they have a chance to save their own life. This episode is essentially a more realistic version of " The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". On our show next week, " The Passersby." This one is for Civil War buffs, the mystics amongst you, or any and all who would want a brief vacation in The Twilight Zone. Next week, we move back in time to April, 1865 - the aftermath of the Civil War, and a strange dusty road that leads to a most unbelievable adventure. Tonight's very small exercise in logic from the Twilight Zone. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remained civilized. No moral, no message, no prophetic tract. The neighbors apologize for their behavior yet Stockton wonders if they have destroyed each other without a bomb. Just then, a final Civil Defense broadcast announces that the objects have been identified as harmless satellites and that no danger is present. The once-friendly neighbors don't accept this they break down the shelter door with an improvised battering ram. Stockton offers his basement to the guests, but the shelter itself has sufficient air, provisions, and space for only three people (the Stocktons themselves). All of the previous cordiality is now replaced with soaring desperation pent-up hostility, searing racism, and other suppressed emotions boil to the surface. The same gathering of friends becomes hysterical and now wants to occupy the shelter. In these times, everybody knows what that means: nuclear attack.Īs panic ensues, the doctor locks himself and his family into his shelter. Suddenly, a Civil Defense (CONELRAD) announcement overheard by young Paul, is made that unidentified objects have been detected heading for the United States. Everyone is especially friendly and jovial, even when mention is made of Bill's late-night work on a fallout shelter which he has built in his basement. Moreover, Bill has repeatedly administered to the health and well being of each one of said guests and/or delivered their children. Bill is well-known and liked by this gathering he attended the State University with Marty, Frank, and Jerry. Also at the party are Jerry Harlowe, Bill's brother-in-law Frank Henderson and Marty Weiss, Bill and Jerry's former roommates and the wives and children of Jerry, Frank, and Marty.
At the residence of physician Bill Stockton, he enjoys a birthday party being thrown for him by his wife Grace and their son Paul. It is a typical evening in a typical suburban community. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. What you are about to watch is a nightmare.
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