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Episode 3

The Shelter

The Shelter

1961
TV Episode
25m
A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter. (imdb)

Directed by:

Lamont Johnson
Lamont-Johnson
33 total credits
Credits include: Shogun Assassin, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Lipstick, The Last American Hero and Please Murder Me

Writer:

Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone

Starring:

Jack Albertson
Jack-Albertson
42 total credits
Credits include: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Sword in the Stone, The Fox and the Hound, Miracle on 34th Street and The Poseidon Adventure
,
Larry Gates
Larry-Gates
26 total credits
Credits include: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, In the Heat of the Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Some Came Running and The Sand Pebbles
,
Joseph Bernard
Joseph-Bernard
7 total credits
Credits include: Death at Love House, White Film, The Shelter, Lost Flight and Drawings on Africa

Country:

USA

Language:

English

The Shelter

1961
TV Episode
25m
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25 Aug 2025
70
48th
An episode solely powered by menace, much like another episode from Season 1.
12 Oct 2023
95
91st
Less well-known than The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, but perhaps even more haunting in its depiction of humanity's tendency towards self-interest and mass hysteria.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Lamont Johnson
Lamont-Johnson
33 total credits
Credits include: Shogun Assassin, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Lipstick, The Last American Hero and Please Murder Me

Writer:

Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone

Starring:

Jack Albertson
Jack-Albertson
42 total credits
Credits include: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Sword in the Stone, The Fox and the Hound, Miracle on 34th Street and The Poseidon Adventure
,
Larry Gates
Larry-Gates
26 total credits
Credits include: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, In the Heat of the Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Some Came Running and The Sand Pebbles
,
Joseph Bernard
Joseph-Bernard
7 total credits
Credits include: Death at Love House, White Film, The Shelter, Lost Flight and Drawings on Africa

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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