Shelter Skelter

"Shelter Skelter" is an episode of the 1980s revival of "The Twilight Zone".

Harry Dobbs (Joe Mantegna) is a family man obsessed with surviving a nuclear war. He has even built himself a fallout shelter in his basement. His wife, (Joan Allen) has taken the kids (one of them played by Danica McKellar) to visit her sister in another state, leaving him alone. Suddenly, without warning, a nuclear blast takes place. Believing that World War III has begun, he runs to the shelter. He survives on his wits alone as he is forced to turn away his friend Nick who arrived too late. Alone and unaware of what exists outside, he remains.

Outside, however, things are quite different. World War III has not in fact happened. The nuclear blast was an accident, with the incident bringing a shocked world back from the brink of nuclear war, and its crater has been contained under a memorial which has sealed inside it all of the debris and radiation. The memorial was built right on top of Dobbs' house.

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/shelter-skelter/episode/75296/summary.html Shelter Skelter episode page] at TV.com