Once the airplane has landed, everyone believes that Robert has gone insane. He then steals a sleeping police officer's revolver, straps himself in to avoid being blown out of the aircraft, and opens the emergency exit door in an attempt to eliminate the gremlin as he shoots it. Robert pretends to down it with water, but does not swallow and secretly spits it out. In response to his repeated attempts to raise an alarm about the gremlin, the flight engineer comes out to evaluate the situation and the stewardess gives Robert a sedative to stop him from alarming other passengers. Robert realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but his more immediate concern is the gremlin tinkering with the wiring under one of the engine cowlings, which could cause the aircraft to crash. His credibility is further undermined by this being his first flight since suffering a nervous breakdown six months earlier, which also occurred on an aircraft. Robert admits the oddness of the gremlin avoiding everyone else's sight, but not his. Every time someone else looks out of the window, the gremlin hides itself, so Robert's claim seems crazy. He tries to alert his wife Julia and the stewardess. While traveling by airplane, Robert Wilson sees a gremlin on the wing. Wilson's plan, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone. Tonight, he's traveling all the way to his appointed destination, which, contrary to Mr. Wilson's flight was terminated by the onslaught of his mental breakdown. Wilson is about to be flown home-the difference being that, on that evening half a year ago, Mr. Wilson has just been discharged from a sanitarium where he spent the last six months recovering from a nervous breakdown, the onset of which took place on an evening not dissimilar to this one, on an airliner very much like the one in which Mr. Robert Wilson, thirty-seven, husband, father and salesman on sick leave. This is the first of six episodes to be directed by Richard Donner. In 2019, Keith Phipps of Vulture stated that the episode "doubles as such an effective shorthand for a fear of flying", making it endure in popular culture. The story follows a passenger on an airline flight who notices a hideous creature trying to sabotage the aircraft during flight.
It originally aired on October 11, 1963, and is one of the most well-known and frequently referenced episodes of the series. " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is the third episode of the fifth season American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson, first published in the short story anthology Alone by Night (1961). The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 5) Stock from " King Nine Will Not Return" and William Shatner with Nick Cravat (not in full costume) as the gremlin
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