Strange and puzzling occurrences on a heretofore quiet and peaceful suburban street cause the residents who live on it to become suspicious of each other to the point where they start turning on one another.
Director Ron Watson not only firmly grounds the chilling and gripping premise in a totally plausible everyday small town reality, but also ably crafts a strong and unsettling mood of mounting dread, unease, and paranoia. The fine acting by the bang-up cast keeps things humming, with especially stand-out contributions from Claude Akins as pragmatic voice of reason Steve Brand, Barry Atwater as the defensive Les Goodman, Jack Warden as hot-headed troublemaker Charlie Farnsworth, and Jan Handzlik as excitable and over-imaginative kid Tommy. Rod Serling's pungent script makes a frightening central point on how man's capacity for fear, anger, bias, and prejudice can lead to his own downfall and ruination as well as demonstrates with terrifying lucidity how a few unusual and inexplicable events can easily escalate into a catastrophe. One of this show's most powerful and disturbing half hours.
Director Ron Watson not only firmly grounds the chilling and gripping premise in a totally plausible everyday small town reality, but also ably crafts a strong and unsettling mood of mounting dread, unease, and paranoia. The fine acting by the bang-up cast keeps things humming, with especially stand-out contributions from Claude Akins as pragmatic voice of reason Steve Brand, Barry Atwater as the defensive Les Goodman, Jack Warden as hot-headed troublemaker Charlie Farnsworth, and Jan Handzlik as excitable and over-imaginative kid Tommy. Rod Serling's pungent script makes a frightening central point on how man's capacity for fear, anger, bias, and prejudice can lead to his own downfall and ruination as well as demonstrates with terrifying lucidity how a few unusual and inexplicable events can easily escalate into a catastrophe. One of this show's most powerful and disturbing half hours.