Twilight Zone- "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"

Fifty years ago tonight, as I write this, on Oct 3, 1959  I was watching the very first show of the very first season of the best television program ever broadcast. Here is some narration at the end of one episode from Rod Serling the best closer there ever was.

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street - "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices To be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the frightened, thoughtless search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn."

Years later when Rod Serling came to San Diego State he autographed my first little script entitled "Whatever happened to Tranquility Base?" He said, "Is it any good?" Tongue tied I could only answer "Yeah".  By the way whatever happened to Tranquility Base?