The Twilight Zone — Season 5
36 episodesFirst aired 27 September 1963
The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964. It featured the same intro as the fourth season, but reverted to the original half-hour format.
E1In Praise of Pip
6.2Sept 196326m
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
E2Steel
6.5Oct 196326m
A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.
E3Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
8.3Oct 196326m
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
E4A Kind of a Stopwatch
7.2Oct 196326m
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
E5The Last Night of a Jockey
6.3Oct 196326m
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
E6Living Doll
7.6Nov 196326m
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
E7The Old Man in the Cave
7.7Nov 196326m
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
E8Uncle Simon
7.0Nov 196326m
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
E9Probe 7, Over and Out
7.1Nov 196326m
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
E10The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
6.1Dec 196326m
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
E11A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
6.3Dec 196326m
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
E12Ninety Years Without Slumbering
6.0Dec 196326m
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
E13Ring-a-Ding Girl
6.8Dec 196326m
A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.
E14You Drive
7.9Jan 196426m
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
E15The Long Morrow
7.5Jan 196426m
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
E16The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
7.5Jan 196426m
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
E17Number 12 Looks Just Like You
7.7Jan 196426m
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
E18Black Leather Jackets
5.9Jan 196426m
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.
E19Night Call
7.0Feb 196426m
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
E20From Agnes – With Love
6.4Feb 196426m
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
E21Spur of the Moment
6.4Feb 196426m
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
E22An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
7.9Feb 196426m
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...
E23Queen of the Nile
6.3Mar 196426m
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
E24What's in the Box
7.0Mar 196426m
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
E25The Masks
8.4Mar 196426m
A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.
E26I Am the Night - Color Me Black
7.1Mar 196426m
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
E27Sounds and Silences
5.5Apr 196426m
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
E28Caesar and Me
6.0Apr 196426m
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
E29The Jeopardy Room
7.2Apr 196426m
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
E30Stopover in a Quiet Town
7.3Apr 196426m
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
E31The Encounter
6.8May 196426m
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
E32Mr. Garrity and the Graves
7.4May 196426m
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
E33The Brain Center at Whipple's
6.3May 196426m
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
E34Come Wander with Me
6.1May 196426m
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
E35The Fear
6.9May 196426m
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
E36The Bewitchin' Pool
6.1Jun 196426m
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
