Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

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film segment short story television episode

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is a famous horror story (and classic Twilight Zone episode) about a terrified airplane passenger who believes he sees a creature sabotaging the wing mid-flight.

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Label	Occurrences
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet canonical	5
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)	3
The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"	2
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1963 episode)	1
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1983 segment)	1
Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 2019 episode)	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film segment ⓘ short story ⓘ television episode ⓘ television episode ⓘ
adaptationOf	Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)
adaptedAs	Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1963 episode) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1983 segment) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 2019 episode)
antagonist	gremlin-like creature ⓘ
author	Richard Matheson ⓘ
basedOn	Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)
character	Bob Wilson ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Robert Pittack ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticalReputation	classic Twilight Zone episode ⓘ
director	George Miller ⓘ Richard Donner ⓘ
editor	George T. Clemens ⓘ
episodeNumberInSeason	3 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn	Alone by Night ⓘ Shock III ⓘ
genre	horror fiction ⓘ horror film segment ⓘ horror television ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ science fiction television ⓘ
host	Rod Serling ⓘ
influenced	popular culture depictions of gremlins on airplanes ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
leadActor	John Lithgow ⓘ William Shatner ⓘ
mainCharacter	Robert Wilson ⓘ
musicBy	Marius Constant ⓘ
narrationBy	Rod Serling ⓘ
notableElement	depiction of fear of flying ⓘ gremlin on airplane wing ⓘ
notableFor	portrayal of a passenger questioning his sanity during a flight ⓘ
originalAirDate	1963-10-11 ⓘ
originalNetwork	CBS ⓘ
partOf	The Twilight Zone: The Movie ⓘ surface form: Twilight Zone: The Movie
partOfSeries	The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes) ⓘ surface form: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
plotFocus	airplane passenger sees creature on wing ⓘ
productionCompany	CBS ⓘ surface form: CBS Television Network
publicationType	anthology contribution ⓘ
season	5 ⓘ
setting	commercial airplane in flight ⓘ
theme	fear of flying ⓘ mental illness and perception ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ
writer	Richard Matheson ⓘ

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Richard Matheson → notableWork → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

Richard Matheson → wrote → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes) → hasNotableEpisode → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → adaptedAs → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1963 episode)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → adaptedAs → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1983 segment)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → adaptedAs → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 2019 episode)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → adaptationOf → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → basedOn → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1963 episode)

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet → basedOn → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1983 segment)

this entity surface form: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (short story)

A Kind of Stopwatch → precededBy → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

William Shatner → notableWork → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

The Twilight Zone: The Movie → segment → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

The Twilight Zone: The Movie → segmentBasedOn → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"