episode #123 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
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episode #123 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Air Date: 10/11/63 written by Richard Matheson Directed by Richard Donner
One of the most famous TZ episodes, in which William Shatner plays a passenger aboard an airliner during a stormy night flight. He soon sees what he determines to be a gremlin on the airplane's wing, fiddling with one of the plate covers. Of course, only he sees the creature; everyone else, including his wife, thinks that he's indulging in some wild imagination. It doesn't help that Shatner's character suffered a nervous breakdown recently.
After all this time, the gremlin suit looks pathetically bad to me. Even back then, they could have come up with something better > the creature looks like a guy dressed in a whacky bear/sheep outfit, with a Halloween mask added on. Overall though, the episode is intense - Shatner is on the edge in this one, always on the verge of hysteria or outright insanity. One line of dialog I always found mystifying - at one point, Shatner tells one of the crew that there's a man on the wing. Now, it looks silly maybe but certainly not like a man. I suppose even in his near-hysterics, Shatner felt that saying something other than "a man" would sound foolish. BoG's Score: 8 out of 10
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one of the 3 original episodes which were remade for the Twillight Zone Movie in 1983. In the remake, John Lithgow played the main character.
One of the most famous TZ episodes, in which William Shatner plays a passenger aboard an airliner during a stormy night flight. He soon sees what he determines to be a gremlin on the airplane's wing, fiddling with one of the plate covers. Of course, only he sees the creature; everyone else, including his wife, thinks that he's indulging in some wild imagination. It doesn't help that Shatner's character suffered a nervous breakdown recently.
After all this time, the gremlin suit looks pathetically bad to me. Even back then, they could have come up with something better > the creature looks like a guy dressed in a whacky bear/sheep outfit, with a Halloween mask added on. Overall though, the episode is intense - Shatner is on the edge in this one, always on the verge of hysteria or outright insanity. One line of dialog I always found mystifying - at one point, Shatner tells one of the crew that there's a man on the wing. Now, it looks silly maybe but certainly not like a man. I suppose even in his near-hysterics, Shatner felt that saying something other than "a man" would sound foolish. BoG's Score: 8 out of 10
one of the 3 original episodes which were remade for the Twillight Zone Movie in 1983. In the remake, John Lithgow played the main character.
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