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"The Twilight Zone" Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
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11 October 1963
(Season 5, Episode 3)
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A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in. | add synopsis
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A TV Classic. One of the best Twilight Zone episodes.
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Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | William Shatner | ... | Bob Wilson |
 | Christine White | ... | Julia Wilson |
| Ed Kemmer | ... | Flight Engineer (as Edward Kemmer) |
| Asa Maynor | ... | Stewardess |
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25 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Revealing mistakes: From the outside of the airplane, during a lightning flash, the cables that pull off the emergency escape door are visible.
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Narrator: [narration] The flight of Mr. Robert Wilson has ended now, a flight not only from point A to point B, but also from the fear of recurring mental breakdown. Mr. Wilson has that fear no longer... though, for the moment, he is, as he has said, alone in this assurance. Happily, his conviction will not remain isolated too much longer, for happily, tangible manifestation is very often left as evidence of trespass, even from so intangible a quarter as the Twilight Zone.
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Narrator: [narration] The flight of Mr. Robert Wilson has ended now, a flight not only from point A to point B, but also from the fear of recurring mental breakdown. Mr. Wilson has that fear no longer... though, for the moment, he is, as he has said, alone in this assurance. Happily, his conviction will not remain isolated too much longer, for happily, tangible manifestation is very often left as evidence of trespass, even from so intangible a quarter as the Twilight Zone.
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Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (#26.10)" (2009)
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"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" directed by Richard Donner one of his first works, is just wonderful it features William Shattner as a panic stricken man on an airplane. This episode is wonderfully done, and well remembered for one of the Twilight Zone's best and is well known over the years in pop culture memory. The plot has the Shattner character as a man that's just recently gotten out of rehab, because he had suffered a mental and nervous breakdown, and getting on a plane will almost certain test his limits. In fact his last breakdown was due to a flight. And boy does his imagination take a turn for the worst when he sees outside on the wing of the plane a furry like creature! This creature stares him in the face! The big question is it really real, or just a test of imagination, because he's the only one to see it. Really a well done episode mostly remembered for Shattner and the terror on a plane with a creature on the wing, this episode just plays with your mind and imagination so well.