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The Shelter ()

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  • Season 3
  • Episode 3
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.
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Dr. Bill Stockton
Joseph Bernard ...
Marty Weiss
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Jerry Harlowe
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Grace Stockton
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Frank Henderson
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Paul Stockton
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Martha Harlowe
Moria Turner ...
Mrs. Weiss
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Mrs. Henderson
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Lamont Johnson ... (directed by)

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Rod Serling ... (written by)
 
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Buck Houghton ... producer (produced by)

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George T. Clemens ... director of photography

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Jason H. Bernie ... film editor

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Philip Barber ... (as Phil Barber)
George W. Davis

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H. Web Arrowsmith ... (set decoration)

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Ralph W. Nelson ... production manager

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E. Darrell Hallenbeck ... assistant director

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Bill Edmondson ... sound
Franklin Milton ... sound

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Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
Robert Drasnin ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Jerry Goldsmith ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
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  • CBS (1961) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
  • Image Entertainment (2011) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)

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Dr. Bill Stockton has prepared well for any eventuality. He's built a bomb shelter for himself, his wife and his child. His neighbors, on the other hand, have done nothing to prepare. During a dinner party, there is an emergency announcement on the radio that unidentified objects have been sighted en route to the US and they may be under attack. As the Stocktons prepare to use their shelter their neighbors panic asking to be let into the shelter with them. Stockton refuses, leading to an angry confrontation. Written by garykmcd

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  • The Shelter (United States)
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Trivia Early in the story, Paul tells the adults that their TV set has gone blank and that the viewers have been told to tune into the CONELRAD stations. CONELRAD - which stood for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation - was a Civil Defense radio system that went into effect on December 10, 1951. Under CONELRAD, most AM radio stations and all FM radio and TV stations in the United States would go off the air in the event of a national emergency. Selected AM stations would then air official information and instructions to the public on the 640 and 1240 frequencies on the AM dial. Radios sold in the United States from 1953 to 1963 were required to display the triangular Civil Defense symbol on their dials at those frequencies. Effective August 5, 1963, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), under which most AM, FM, and TV stations would remain on the air in the event of an emergency, but would switch over to official news and information. On January 1, 1997, EBS was replaced by the current Emergency Alert System (EAS), which is essentially EBS plus cable TV and satellite TV and radio. See more »
Goofs The large jug Bill carries is full of water, then empty. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Chapter 6: JFK - To the Brink (2012). See more »
Soundtracks Happy Birthday to You See more »
Quotes Jerry Harlowe: Hey that's a great idea, block party, anything to get back to normal, huh?
Dr. Bill Stockton: Normal? I don't know. I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once. I don't anymore.
Jerry Harlowe: I told you we'd pay for the damages, Bill.
Dr. Bill Stockton: Damages? I wonder. I wonder if anyone of us has any idea what those damages really are. Maybe one of them is finding out what we're really like when we're normal; the kind of people we are just underneath the skin. I mean all of us: a bunch of naked wild animals, who put such a price on staying alive that they'd claw their neighbors to death just for the privilege. We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder if we weren't destroyed even without it.
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