The Twilight Zone
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 • Episode 3
Season 5 • Episode 3
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
