The Shadow Man
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"The Shadow Man"
The Twilight Zone episode

scene from The Shadow Man
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 10a
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Original air date November 29, 1985
Guest stars
Heather Haase : Liana Ames
Jonathan Ward : Danny
Jeff Calhoun : Shadow Man
Kathleem Coyne : Mother
Tricia Bartholome : Redhead Girl
Julia Hendler : Girl with Braces
Melissa Moultrie : Janie
Chris Gosch : Boy #1
Marc Bentley : Boy with Glasses
Jason Presson : Eric
Michael Rich : Peter
Amy O'Neill : Blonde Girl
Episode chronology
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List of Twilight Zone episodes
"The Shadow Man" is the first segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Contents [hide]
1 Opening narration
2 Synopsis
3 Syndication
4 See also
5 External links
[edit]Opening narration

“ When you're thirteen years old, you're supposed to be beyond those childhood fears of things that go bump in the night. Supposed to be. But for Danny Hayes, those fears are about to rear up before him, from the shadows...of the Twilight Zone. ”
[edit]Synopsis

Danny Hayes, a nerdy kid regularly picked on by a bully named Eric, is once again tricked and frightened by Eric about Danny's interest in a girl. At home, Danny is lectured by his mother about sleeping with all the lights, television and radio on. A mysterious entity comes out from under his bed and tells Danny that he is the shadow man and that he will never harm the person under whose bed he lives. Then the shadow leaves.
The next day, Danny tries to tell his friend Peter about it, but Peter dismisses it. At school, Danny hears about two children who were attacked by what witnesses say was a shadowy man. That night, Danny falls asleep but wakes up to the shadow man, who once again states how he will not hurt Danny and then leaves. Danny tries to take a picture of him but the flash doesn't work. The next day, Danny continues telling Peter about what happened and Peter continues to dismiss it. Danny overhears that Leann, the girl he has a crush on, needs help in algebra, so he goes to her house to help. She is impressed that he would come out with all the shadow man attacks going on.
Suddenly Danny becomes the big man on campus with loads of fair-weather friends. His real friend, Peter, after hearing of an attack near his home, begins to believe what Danny was saying and confronts him about it. Danny, knowing what he knows, just brushes it off and even schedules a fight with Eric, the bully. Eric shows up, but so does the shadow man. Eric runs off but Danny, unafraid, stays. The shadow man begins choking Danny, who asks in shock why the shadow man is choking him. The shadow man states his credo about never harming the person under whose bed he lives, but then says he is a shadow man from someone else's bed.
[edit]Syndication

This episode was stretched into a half-hour run time for syndication, as recently shown on the Chiller TV network.
[edit]See also

List of The Twilight Zone episodes
[edit]External links

TV.com - The Twilight Zone (1985) episode: The Shadow Man
Internet Movie Database article
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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"
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"
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