Season 5

1963 · 36 episodes · 15h 36m in all · 6.9/10

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.

1. In Praise of Pip
27 Sept 1963 · 26 min · 6.2/10
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
4 Oct 1963 · 26 min · 6.5/10
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
11 Oct 1963 · 26 min · 8.2/10
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
18 Oct 1963 · 26 min · 7.2/10
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
25 Oct 1963 · 26 min · 6.3/10
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
1 Nov 1963 · 26 min · 7.7/10
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
8 Nov 1963 · 26 min · 7.7/10
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
8. Uncle Simon
15 Nov 1963 · 26 min · 7.0/10
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
29 Nov 1963 · 26 min · 7.1/10
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
6 Dec 1963 · 26 min · 6.1/10
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
13 Dec 1963 · 26 min · 6.3/10
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
20 Dec 1963 · 26 min · 6.1/10
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
27 Dec 1963 · 26 min · 6.8/10
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
3 Jan 1964 · 26 min · 7.8/10
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
10 Jan 1964 · 26 min · 7.3/10
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
17 Jan 1964 · 26 min · 7.5/10
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
24 Jan 1964 · 26 min · 7.7/10
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
31 Jan 1964 · 26 min · 5.8/10
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 Feb 1964 · 26 min · 7.1/10
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
20. From Agnes – With Love
14 Feb 1964 · 26 min · 6.2/10
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
21 Feb 1964 · 26 min · 6.4/10
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
28 Feb 1964 · 26 min · 8.0/10
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 Mar 1964 · 26 min · 6.4/10
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
24. What's in the Box
13 Mar 1964 · 26 min · 6.9/10
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
25. The Masks
20 Mar 1964 · 26 min · 8.4/10
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
27 Mar 1964 · 26 min · 7.1/10
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
3 Apr 1964 · 26 min · 5.5/10
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
28. Caesar and Me
10 Apr 1964 · 26 min · 6.3/10
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
29. The Jeopardy Room
17 Apr 1964 · 26 min · 7.2/10
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
24 Apr 1964 · 26 min · 7.4/10
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
31. The Encounter
1 May 1964 · 26 min · 6.8/10
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
8 May 1964 · 26 min · 7.4/10
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
15 May 1964 · 26 min · 6.4/10
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
34. Come Wander with Me
22 May 1964 · 26 min · 6.1/10
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
35. The Fear
29 May 1964 · 26 min · 6.9/10
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
36. The Bewitchin' Pool
19 Jun 1964 · 26 min · 6.1/10
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.