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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 “But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.” ― Richard Matheson, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
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"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is an episode of the The Twilight Zone.
From the CBS Video Library cover:
Opening Narration Episode Summary
Bob Wilson is a salesman on an airplane for the first time since his nervous breakdown six months ago. Bored, he looks out onto the wing of the plane, and is astonished to see a gremlin on the wing of the plane, tentatively approaching the window from the outside. Wilson closes his window curtain, and soon opens it again. When he reopens his curtain, he is shocked to see the gremlin with its face pressed against the window, staring at him. When he notifies the stewardess, the gremlin vanishes. Wilson looks outside again shortly after, and is horrified when he sees the gremlin is back and is starting to tamper with one of the engines on the wing. Every time someone else looks out the window, the gremlin immediately jumps out of view, so no one believes Wilson's seemingly outrageous claim. Bob realizes his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium. But, also, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will seriously damage the plane's engine and cause it to crash. Bob steals a sleeping policeman's revolver and opens the window marked, "Auxiliary Exit", and is sucked halfway out the window. This catches the gremlin's attention. The evil creature begins charging at Wilson, but is shot fatally. Once the plane lands, Bob is whisked away in a straitjacket, with a final shot revealing evidence of his claims: the unusual damage to the plane's engine nacelle - yet to be discovered by mechanics.
Cast
•Rod Serling (Narrator)
Production Companies
•Cayuga Productions •Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with)
Distributors
•Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
This episode would be remade as a part of the 1983 anthology movie "Twilight Zone: The Movie". In it, John Lithgow portrays John Valentine, a man who has a fear of flying. While sitting in his seat, John sees the gremlin destroying a wing of the plane and tries to get other people to believe him to no avail. Unlike the episode, after John takes the...
Notes
1.CBS Video Library: Twilight Zone #0310 "Walking Distance/Nightmare at 20,000 Feet/The Midnight Sun/The Purple Testament" ; UPC: 000310060008, EAN: ?, ASIN: ?; Format: NTSC, VHS, Collector's Edition (1987)
Rain can be seen trickling straight down Bob's window, indicating that the "plane" is not moving. In flight the rain would be blown straight back. At the speed these old planes flew, you would only see tiny trickles of water, even in very heavy rainstorms. Quotes. Bob Wilson: There's a man out there.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Richard Donner
- 1963-10-11
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet " is the third episode of the fifth season American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson, first published in the short story anthology Alone by Night (1961). It originally aired on October 11, 1963, and is one of the most ...
"The Twilight Zone" Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (TV Episode 1963) - * [last lines] * Narrator: [Closing 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 ...
A great memorable quote from the Twilight Zone: The Movie movie on Quotes.net - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Segment 4): John Dennis Johnston - Co-Pilot
Quotes. Bob Wilson : There's a man out there. Bob Wilson : I realize what this sounds like. Do I look insane? Julia Wilson : No, darling, no. Bob Wilson : I know I had a mental breakdown. I know I had it in an airplane. I know it looks to you as if the same thing is happening again, but it isn't. I'm sure, it isn't.
