Personal Demons (The Twilight Zone)

"**Personal Demons**"
"Personal Demons"
The Twilight Zone 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 appearances
	Martin Balsam: Rockne O'Bannon ; Joshua Shelley: Herman Gold ; Clive Revill: Agent ; : Widow ; Penny Baker: Pam ; : Gary ; : Creature #1 ; Billy Curtis: Creature ; : Creature ; : Creature ; : Creature ; : Creature ; Jerry Maren: Creature
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"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 writer Rockne O'Bannon, who is hounded by diminutive clawed creatures which only he can see. Rockne S. O'Bannon is a real screenwriter, who also wrote this segment. Because it is a part of the twist ending, the screenwriting credit appears at the end of the segment instead of in the opening credits.

Plot[]

Rockne O'Bannon is a television writer who feels he has fallen into a rut and yearns to have just one more genuinely original idea. He begins seeing mysterious, hooded creatures in his neighborhood. No one else can see them, even though they can perceive the damage the creatures do to Rockne's car and apartment and the establishments he visits. The creatures appear in increasingly greater numbers, and Rockne stops writing because he can no longer concentrate with the creatures constantly hounding him.

One night the creatures break into his apartment. Rockne asks what they want and what it will take to get them to leave him alone. The creatures answer, "Write about us." Rockne sits at his typewriter and begins writing, and as he puts words on paper the creatures vanish one by one.

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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"
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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" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "The Wall" "Cat and Mouse" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Love Is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Special Service" "Father and Son Game"

Personal Demons (The Twilight Zone)

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