The Twilight Zone - Season 5

First aired: 9/27/1963 36 episodes

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.

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Episodes

1. In Praise of Pip

Aired: 9/27/1963

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

Aired: 10/4/1963

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

Aired: 10/11/1963

No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.

4. A Kind of a Stopwatch

Aired: 10/18/1963

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

Aired: 10/25/1963

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

Aired: 11/1/1963

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

Aired: 11/8/1963

A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

8. Uncle Simon

Aired: 11/15/1963

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

Aired: 11/29/1963

The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.

10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

Aired: 12/6/1963

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

Aired: 12/13/1963

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

Aired: 12/20/1963

An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.

13. Ring-a-Ding Girl

Aired: 12/27/1963

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

Aired: 1/3/1964

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

Aired: 1/10/1964

Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.

16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Aired: 1/17/1964

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Aired: 1/24/1964

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

Aired: 1/31/1964

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

Aired: 2/7/1964

An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

20. From Agnes – With Love

Aired: 2/14/1964

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

Aired: 2/21/1964

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

Aired: 2/28/1964

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

Aired: 3/6/1964

A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

24. What's in the Box

Aired: 3/13/1964

A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.

25. The Masks

Aired: 3/20/1964

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

Aired: 3/27/1964

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

Aired: 4/3/1964

A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.

28. Caesar and Me

Aired: 4/10/1964

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

29. The Jeopardy Room

Aired: 4/17/1964

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.