The Twilight Zone — Season 5
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About this season
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.
Episodes (36)
1. In Praise of Pip
6.2Aired 27 September 1963 • 26 min
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.
2. Steel
6.5Aired 4 October 1963 • 26 min
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.
3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
8.2Aired 11 October 1963 • 26 min
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
4. A Kind of a Stopwatch
7.2Aired 18 October 1963 • 26 min
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
5. The Last Night of a Jockey
6.3Aired 25 October 1963 • 26 min
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.
6. Living Doll
7.8Aired 1 November 1963 • 26 min
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!
7. The Old Man in the Cave
7.7Aired 8 November 1963 • 26 min
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
8. Uncle Simon
7.0Aired 15 November 1963 • 26 min
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
9. Probe 7, Over and Out
7.1Aired 29 November 1963 • 26 min
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
6.1Aired 6 December 1963 • 26 min
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
11. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
6.3Aired 13 December 1963 • 26 min
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
6.0Aired 20 December 1963 • 26 min
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
6.8Aired 27 December 1963 • 26 min
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.
14. You Drive
7.9Aired 3 January 1964 • 26 min
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.
15. The Long Morrow
7.5Aired 10 January 1964 • 26 min
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
7.5Aired 17 January 1964 • 26 min
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
7.7Aired 24 January 1964 • 26 min
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.
18. Black Leather Jackets
5.9Aired 31 January 1964 • 26 min
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.
19. Night Call
7.0Aired 7 February 1964 • 26 min
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
20. From Agnes – With Love
6.4Aired 14 February 1964 • 26 min
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
21. Spur of the Moment
6.4Aired 21 February 1964 • 26 min
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
7.9Aired 28 February 1964 • 26 min
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...
23. Queen of the Nile
6.3Aired 6 March 1964 • 26 min
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
24. What's in the Box
7.0Aired 13 March 1964 • 26 min
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
25. The Masks
8.4Aired 20 March 1964 • 26 min
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.
26. I Am the Night - Color Me Black
7.1Aired 27 March 1964 • 26 min
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.
27. Sounds and Silences
5.5Aired 3 April 1964 • 26 min
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
28. Caesar and Me
6.0Aired 10 April 1964 • 26 min
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
29. The Jeopardy Room
7.2Aired 17 April 1964 • 26 min
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.
30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
7.3Aired 24 April 1964 • 26 min
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
31. The Encounter
6.8Aired 1 May 1964 • 26 min
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
7.4Aired 8 May 1964 • 26 min
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
6.3Aired 15 May 1964 • 26 min
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
34. Come Wander with Me
6.1Aired 22 May 1964 • 26 min
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
35. The Fear
6.9Aired 29 May 1964 • 26 min
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
36. The Bewitchin' Pool
6.1Aired 19 June 1964 • 26 min
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.