Nightmares at 20,000 Feet

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

Join Tom Elliot on a series of interconnected nightmares, when you board a plane to take the seat that we've reserved for you... next to the wing.

Tony Albarella, Vice President of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation and editor of As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet from Gauntlet Press joins Tom, to guide us through the dark skies of Richard Matheson's classic tale.

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0:00.0	Tonight I've reserved a seat for you on a most unusual flight.
0:18.0	This isn't some kind of Odyssey on Flight 33, although by the end of the trip you might wish
0:27.4	it was, because what you're about to experience is a series of interconnected nightmares.
0:36.9	And if you've taken your seat and buckled your seatbelt,
0:40.3	you're here for the long haul.
0:44.3	Can I get you something to drink, Mr. Elliot?
0:46.3	A golden delight on the rocks and a packet of mollies, please. Thank you.
0:51.3	Certainly, sir.
0:52.3	The captain of our flight is the great Richard Matheson, but even he could not have predicted
1:00.0	that when he birthed tonight's tale from his typewriter, that it would be adapted, remade,
1:07.0	parodied, and that every day airline passengers would turn to their traveling companions
1:13.6	and utter that immortal line.
1:17.6	There's some...
1:19.6	Thank you.
1:21.6	You're welcome, sir. Enjoy the rest of your flight.
1:24.6	And Richard Matheson's co-pilot this evening is also a pilot of some note.
1:31.7	The legendary director, Richard Donner.
1:35.8	So please, take your seat, but be warned.
1:41.0	The one that I've reserved for you is a window seat, and there's something on the wing.
1:53.0	You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension.
2:00.0	A dimension of sound and a dimension of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight,
2:04.9	a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas.
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