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The Big Picture Since 1959, The Twilight Zone has dazzled, confused, frightened, and convicted audiences around the world. The original Rod Serling series reinvented the mass appeal of the anthology, and all subsequent revivals have fought with varying degrees of success to recapture that same magic. But one episode has been remade on multiple occasions throughout The Twilight Zone's history, standing far above the rest.
In the short story version, Wilson is a businessman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In fact, he was a man contemplating suicide via the handgun in his pack when he first begins to see a creature on the side of the plane. "But of course you couldn't do that on television," Matheson told Marc Scott Zicree when interviewed for The Twilight Zone Companion.
This time around, Matheson again adapted his own work , with John Lithgrow playing the overly-sweaty, panic attack-induced passenger named John Valentine. Valentine, unlike William Shatner's Bob Wilson, travels alone on his flight and has a much harder time adapting to the highs and lows of air travel. But when he sees a hideous creature on the wing of the plane, just as they go through a lightning storm, well, the familiar tale begins again.
Related Rod Serling Took a Shot at Classic Westerns With This ‘Twilight Zone’ Episode Rod Serling is one sneaky fellow. Unlike the previous two nightmares, "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" doesn't center on a man facing down a gremlin hell-bent on crashing the plane. Instead, as Sanderson listens to the podcast on his mysterious MP3 player, he discovers "The Mystery of Northern Goldstar Flight 1015," which is said to disappear about an hour into its flight time.
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