Nightcrawlers (The Twilight Zone)
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Nightcrawlers is an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Details
Episode number: 4
Season: 1
Original air date: October 18, 1985
Writer: Philip DeGuere, from a short story of the same name by Robert R. McCammon, first published in the 1984 collection Masques
Director: William Friedkin
Music: original score by Mel Saunders and the Grateful Dead, featuring Huey Lewis on harmonica
[edit] Cast
Price: Scott Paulin
Dennis Wells: James Whitmore Jr.
[edit] Synopsis
A Vietnam veteran who fled and abandoned his unit is endowed with the power of mind over matter. While he sleeps, ghostlike soldiers materialize, destroy the diner where he is staying and eventually kill him, before vanishing again. We learn that there are four other vets with similar powers.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode lacks both an opening and closing narration.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
Back to: The New Twilight Zone, Episode List, Season 1
