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"The Twilight Zone" Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)



Overview

User Rating:
9.2/10   517 votes
Director:
Richard Donner
Writers:
Richard Matheson (writer)
Rod Serling (creator)
Contact:
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Original Air Date:
11 October 1963 (Season 5, Episode 3)
Plot:
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
User Comments:
Far, far, far from the best TZ more

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Richard Matheson originally wanted Patricia Breslin to play Bob Wilson's wife. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: From the outside of the airplane, during a lightning flash, the cables that pull off the emergency escape door are visible. more
Quotes:
Bob Wilson: There's a man out there. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror IV (#5.5)" (1993) more

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4 out of 24 people found the following comment useful:-
Far, far, far from the best TZ, 21 September 2007
3/10
Author: rnp1975 from United States

For the life of me I've never understood the appeal of this. As a stand-alone story of irrationality (Wilson's or the world's, take your pick) it's OK.

But the best TZ episodes have an interior logic, a sense that even as you're agreeing with the people on screen "This can't be happening", you know that somehow, somewhere, it could.

This, however, is so simplistic and artificial - how long do you have to watch before realizing that no one else is going to see the creature? And more importantly, that the writer and director are so palpably engineering it that they might as well be visible - like boom shadows - on the screen.

Lame, lame, lame. The stars are for Shatner.

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