Product Details

• Actors: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, James Turley
• Writers: Rod Serling
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301628470
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,226 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Monsters on Maple Street" is awesome., August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Twilight Zone (Time Enough At Last/The Monsters are Due on Maple Street) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of Serling's best stories put on film. It is very insightful of how human nature can lead to the destruction of communities, self and others. He shows that when something is different from the norm is introduced into our lives we immediately become fearful and suspicious of all others around us.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maple Street is one of the best episodes ever...., September 25, 1998

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This review is from: Twilight Zone (Time Enough At Last/The Monsters are Due on Maple Street) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Monsters on Maple Street" is one of the all time outstanding Twilight Zone episodes. For those who feel a hunger for stories that possess depth and intelligence not found in contemporary television, you are in for a real treat. This should be required viewing for television executives today. An added pleasure is counting all the young actors that later developed famous acting acreers. END

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street 1KC, February 7, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Twilight Zone (Time Enough At Last/The Monsters are Due on Maple Street) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

" The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Rod Serling, a screenplay writer for MGM in the 1950's wrote many famous science fiction teleplays, movies, Broadway shows, and television entertainment shows. Serling has won multiple Emmy awards for his work. He wrote 92 twilight zone episodes that were aired on CBS. They became one of America's most recognized, and most popular television series.
Some of Serling's most famous writings include: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Time Enough at Last". "Time Enough at Last" was written in 1959. I do not know when "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" was written but I assume it was around 1959.
Rod Serling died on June 28th, 1975. He died during a coronary bypass operation in Rochester, New York. Rod Serling's stories of aliens and super natural happenings are entertaining for all to this day. His name will live on in science fiction history forever.
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", a teleplay and television entertainment show, was written by Serling in the nineteen fifties'. I love how Serling describes les Goodman's car starting up with no one in it (673). This event brings chaos and unproven assumptions. Other things, such as flickering lights, happen all down Maple Street. They are mostly all blamed on Les Goodman because of his insomnia. These things bring complete and utter chaos.
Confusion breaks free when all of the lights and appliances down Maple Street turn off and stop working (668-669). This advances the plot to confusion. Chaos doesn't come until Les Goodmans' car starts up with no one inside. People turn wild as new and crazy things happen down Maple Street. Sound effects in this section of the teleplay are screams, crying, and gunfires.
Other crazy things happen down Maple Street. Lights flicker, appliances turn on and off, and again chaos starts up (683). Mostly these things are blamed on Les Goodman. They think he is an alien because his insomnia sometimes wakes him up. So to occupy himself he takes walks at night and claims to be looking at stars. But the families all down Maple Street think he is looking for his alien friends. This foreshadows who is behind all of the chaos and confusion.
I thought Rod Serling's teleplay, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", was very realistic when referring to human nature. Even though it is believed that alien or outer space life forms are not real. The car starting then produces this assumption.
I thought it was interesting how Serling never gave a definite ending to "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". He never gives a definite ending to the teleplay. I just assumed the chaos went on until every human life on Maple Street was dead or confused for their lifetime. Even though I am not into science fiction writings, I really enjoyed "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". I would call this science fiction movie and teleplay one of the best from the 1950's.