Jack Albertson's best known role is that of Ed Brown in the sitcom, Chico and the Man.

Larry Gates is best remembered as patriarch Harlan Lewis on TV's The Guiding Light.

Jack Albertson is also in "I Dream of Genie."

Jo Helton can also be seen in "On Thursday We Leave For Home."

John McLiam was also in "Miniature" and "Uncle Simon."

Mary Gregory is also in "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "The Lateness of the Hour."

Sandy Kenyon is also in "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and "Valley of the Shadow."

One of the few TZ episodes with no fantastical or supernatural elements.

Harlowe: As a little personal aside, I'd like to conclude this way.
Stockton: It'll probably be the best part of the speech.

Opening Narration
Narrator: What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone.

Jerry Harlowe: We could throw a nice big block party, just like old times! Anything to get back to normal! Right, Bill?
Dr. William Stockton: Normal? ...I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once; I don't anymore.
Jerry Harlowe: Oh, we'll pay for all the damages, Bill.
Dr. William Stockton: Damages? I wonder...if any of us has any idea what those "damages" really are. Maybe one of them was finding out what we're really like when we're "normal." The kind of people we are, just underneath the skin--and I mean all of us--a lot of naked, wild animals who put such a price on staying alive that they'll claw their own neighbors to death just for the privilege! We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder... if we weren't destroyed even without it.

Closing Narration
Narrator: No moral, no message, no prophetic tract. Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise in logic from the Twilight Zone.