monsters are due on maple street
The
Monsters Are Due on
ROD SERLING
CHARACTERS
Narrator
Tommy
Steve Brand
Don Martin
Myra Brand, Steve’s wife
Woman
Voice One
Voice Two
Voice Three
Voice Four
Voice Five
Pete Van Horn
Charlie
Sally, Tommy’s mother
Man One
Les Goodman
Ethel Goodman, Les’s wife
Man Two
Figure One
Figure Two
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Maple Street
ACT ONE
(Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various
heavenly bodies stand out in sharp, sparkling relief. The camera moves slowly across the heavens until it passes the horizon and stops on a sign that reads “Maple Street.” It is daytime. Then we see the street below. It is a quiet, tree-lined, small-town
Ameri can street. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders, talking across from house to house. Steve Brand is polishing his car, which is parked in front of his house.
His neighbor, Don Martin, leans against the fender watching him. An ice-cream vendor riding a bicycle is just in the process of stopping to sell some ice cream to a couple of kids. Two women gossip on the front lawn. Another man is watering his lawn with a garden hose. As we see these various activities, we hear the Narrator’s voice.)
Narrator. Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer.
A tree-lined little world of front-porch gliders, hopscotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor.
(There is a pause, and the camera moves over to
a shot of the ice-cream vendor and two small boys who are standing alongside just buying ice cream.)
Narrator. At the sound of the roar and the flash of the light, it will be precisely six-forty-three
p.m. on Maple Street.
(At this moment Tommy, one of the two boys buying
ice cream from the vendor, looks up to listen to a tremendous screeching roar from overhead.
A flash of light plays on the faces of both boys and then moves down the street and disappears.
Various people leave their porches or stop what they are doing to stare up at the sky.
Monsters Are Due on
ROD SERLING
CHARACTERS
Narrator
Tommy
Steve Brand
Don Martin
Myra Brand, Steve’s wife
Woman
Voice One
Voice Two
Voice Three
Voice Four
Voice Five
Pete Van Horn
Charlie
Sally, Tommy’s mother
Man One
Les Goodman
Ethel Goodman, Les’s wife
Man Two
Figure One
Figure Two
136
Maple Street
ACT ONE
(Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various
heavenly bodies stand out in sharp, sparkling relief. The camera moves slowly across the heavens until it passes the horizon and stops on a sign that reads “Maple Street.” It is daytime. Then we see the street below. It is a quiet, tree-lined, small-town
Ameri can street. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders, talking across from house to house. Steve Brand is polishing his car, which is parked in front of his house.
His neighbor, Don Martin, leans against the fender watching him. An ice-cream vendor riding a bicycle is just in the process of stopping to sell some ice cream to a couple of kids. Two women gossip on the front lawn. Another man is watering his lawn with a garden hose. As we see these various activities, we hear the Narrator’s voice.)
Narrator. Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer.
A tree-lined little world of front-porch gliders, hopscotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor.
(There is a pause, and the camera moves over to
a shot of the ice-cream vendor and two small boys who are standing alongside just buying ice cream.)
Narrator. At the sound of the roar and the flash of the light, it will be precisely six-forty-three
p.m. on Maple Street.
(At this moment Tommy, one of the two boys buying
ice cream from the vendor, looks up to listen to a tremendous screeching roar from overhead.
A flash of light plays on the faces of both boys and then moves down the street and disappears.
Various people leave their porches or stop what they are doing to stare up at the sky.