Bob Wilson

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Bob Wilson is the anxious airline passenger in the classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who believes he sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
television character
airlineStatus passenger
appearsIn The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED
appearsInEpisode Nightmare at 20,000 Feet NERFINISHED
appearsInSeason The Twilight Zone season 5 NERFINISHED
basedOn character in the short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
characterTrait anxious
nervous flier
paranoid
conflictWith airplane gremlin
createdBy Richard Matheson NERFINISHED
episodeDirector Richard Donner NERFINISHED
firstAppearance Nightmare at 20,000 Feet NERFINISHED
firstAppearanceYear 1963
franchiseLegacy inspired later adaptations of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
genre psychological horror
supernatural fiction
hasSpouse Ruth Wilson NERFINISHED
medium television
mentalHealthStatus recently recovered from a nervous breakdown
modeOfTransport airplane
narrativeRole protagonist of the episode
notableFor believing a gremlin is sabotaging the plane
seeing a gremlin on the wing of an airplane
notableScene attempts to warn the crew about the gremlin
breaks a window with a gun to confront the gremlin
occupation salesman
partOfSeries The Twilight Zone (original series) NERFINISHED
portrayedAs only passenger who sees the gremlin
portrayedBy William Shatner NERFINISHED
setting commercial airliner in flight
themeInvolvement fear of flying
stigma around mental illness
unreliable perception
travelsWith Ruth Wilson NERFINISHED

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