Personal Demons (The Twilight Zone)

"Personal Demons"
The Twilight Zone (1985 series) episode
Scene from Personal Demons
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 18b
Directed by	Peter Medak
Written by	Rockne S. O'Bannon
Original air date	February 14, 1986
Guest actors
Martin Balsam : Rockne O'Bannon Joshua Shelley : Herman Gold Clive Revill : Agent Marlena Giovi : Widow Penny Baker : Pam Stephen Flanigan : Gary Tommy Madden : Creature #1 Billy Curtis : Creature Gary Friedkin : Creature Kevin Thompson : Creature Don Frishman : Creature Lou Carry : Creature Jerry Maren : Creature

"Personal Demons" is the second segment of the eighteenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Martin Balsam plays the character Rockne O'Bannon in this episode. Rockne S. O'Bannon is a real screenwriter who also wrote this episode.

Plot

Rockne O'Bannon is a famous script writer, but few people know the truth: he has writer's block and has not had an original idea in twenty years. When he complains to his neighbor about this, the man advises him to retire, but Rockne cannot bring himself to do that until he writes one more story. Unfortunately, he has no ideas to write about - until he begins seeing mysterious, hooded creatures in his neighborhood.

At first, he is able to escape the creatures, which no one else can see, but one night they destroy his car and break into his apartment, surrounding him. Rockne asks what they want from him, and the creatures inform him that they want to be written about. If Rockne will write a story about them, they will leave him alone and never return. Presented with the story idea he had been so desperate for, Rockne begins writing, and as he puts words on paper, the creatures begin to vanish, one by one.

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The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "The Wall" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "Cat and Mouse" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Special Service" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Father and Son Game"