Even if you haven't grown up watching the "twilight zone", you have almost certainly been influenced or seen something that is influenced by the seminar series of Rhat Serling's horror series. Aside to become very popular during his original five-season period from 1959-64 at CBS, the show gave its position in the union before it was renamed three separate TV revival in 1985, 2002 and 2019. There were also Cursed film "Dusk Zone" Since 1982 and the fact that the individual episodes have been referred, parodied and used for inspiration in everything from "children's play" to "Simpsons".

In the second case, you may remember a segment of "Treehouse of Horror IV" in 1993, titled "Terror of 5+1⁄2 Feet", in which Bart is threatened by Gremlin that he can only see while on the school bus. This was just one of the many renaming of "20,000 feet nightmare", and Classic episode "Dusk Zone", which was officially remedied twice (though none is at the top of the original). The "Simpsons" episode is closest to the original justice, but it is mostly because it is a successful parody made during the height of the golden era of the show. The original episode, however, shouldn't have made anyone laugh - though Starvala William Shatner was worried he would be.

"Nightmare of 20,000 feet" was directed by the great Richard Donner and aired on October 11, 1963, during the fifth and last season of the "Dusk Zone". Based on Richard Messson's story of the same name, the episode (also written by Mathson) follows Robert Wilson on Shatner, an an airline who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Wilson comes out of his window just to see Gremlin (actor/trick performer Nick Covat) damages the wing, but when he tries to warn the family and the plane, no one can see it. Of course, everyone assumes Wilson has another nervous breakdown, but he manages to steal a gun and open the exit door, removing Gremlin before being mixed on a stretcher after the plane landed. The final blow reveals damage to one of the engines, pointing out that Wilson did not hallucinated Gremlin. Although it may not sound all that humorous, Shatner seems worried that people will not understand his disturbing vignette all seriously.

During the 2024 interview with Television AcademyWilliam Shatner was asked about his experience working with Richard Donner on a 20,000 feet nightmare and revealed that he had already had a good relationship with the director when he came to film the episode. "I came from live television out of the New York, and Donner was a very fruitful director," he said. "I worked with him several times in front of live television. So we were more or less friends, pretty good acquaintances. So when he called, it was like an old friend, saying," Let's do this thing. "

As Shatner recalled, he felt in conflict after reading the script first. "I had two Uma," he said. "I mean, I can laugh. And when I saw the suit in which the Czechoslovak acrobat was dressed, I thought," Well, I hope this is not laughing. " This is good for laughter, at least. "It seems that from the" Czechoslovak acrobat ", Shatner referred to actor Nick Cavat, who donated a lawsuit to show Gremlin in the segment. In an interview for 2016 with AquariusShatner explained his worries about Gremlin specifically. "This man on the plane was actually a Czechoslovak acrobat in a fur suit," he said, "How would you buy for your child to go to a Halloween party, but no one talks about it.

Then, it is clear that the design of the Gremlin suit itself was Shatner's main concern about how the horror tone of the episode can be undermined. But that was not the end of the actor's worries.

During an interview with his television academy, William Shatner revealed that he was concerned about how "20,000 nightmare" would be admitted next to the recording of his last scene. He recalled the recording of the latest footage of the episode, with his image being taken to a stretcher and thinking "I hope everyone will take this thing as it was supposed to be (not to laugh at it." Star Trek Starvala seems to be concerned that Robert Wilson's obvious hallucinations would make the butt of a joke, instead of conveying the terror that the writer Richard Mattson intended.

Of course, things worked out as Shatner had hoped, with the actor even admitting that a "20,000 feet nightmare" has since become legendary about what one of the The worst episodes of the "twilight zone". As he said, "since we are talking about it more than 60 years later, it seems that my hope has come true."

Indeed, the episode and its dramatization of the fear of flying even surpassed the show on which it first appeared, becoming part of the culture independently. He was rematched for the latest segment of the Twilight Zone: The 1983 film with Johnon Litgov in the lead role, and again to restart Twilight Zone in 2019 at CBS All Access, this time with Adam's Adam's Adam. But even without these remake, the original episode would still enjoy the same notortion. In the same way"The Dusk Zone" remains relevant today, as it was in the 1960sThus, also a "20,000 feet nightmare" endured as an important cultural moment. The turnaround that ends here is that The original vision of the episode was Actually much more light.