Season 5

Sep 27, 1963
36 Episodes
TMDB
69%

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

1

In Praise of Pip

Sep 27, 1963
26 min
62%

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

Oct 4, 1963
26 min
65%

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

Oct 11, 1963
26 min
82%

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

Oct 18, 1963
26 min
72%

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

Oct 25, 1963
26 min
63%

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

Nov 1, 1963
26 min
78%

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

Nov 8, 1963
26 min
77%

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

8

Uncle Simon

Nov 15, 1963
26 min
70%

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

Nov 29, 1963
26 min
71%

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

10

The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

Dec 6, 1963
26 min
61%

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

Dec 13, 1963
26 min
63%

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

Dec 20, 1963
26 min
60%

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

13

Ring-a-Ding Girl

Dec 27, 1963
26 min
68%

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

Jan 3, 1964
26 min
79%

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

Jan 10, 1964
26 min
75%

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

16

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Jan 17, 1964
26 min
75%

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

17

Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Jan 24, 1964
26 min
77%

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

Jan 31, 1964
26 min
59%

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

Feb 7, 1964
26 min
70%

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

20

From Agnes – With Love

Feb 14, 1964
26 min
64%

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

Feb 21, 1964
26 min
64%

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

Feb 28, 1964
26 min
79%

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

Mar 6, 1964
26 min
63%

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

24

What's in the Box

Mar 13, 1964
26 min
70%

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

25

The Masks

Mar 20, 1964
26 min
84%

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

Mar 27, 1964
26 min
71%

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

Apr 3, 1964
26 min
55%

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

28

Caesar and Me

Apr 10, 1964
26 min
60%

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

29

The Jeopardy Room

Apr 17, 1964
26 min
72%

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

Apr 24, 1964
26 min
73%

The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.

31

The Encounter

May 1, 1964
26 min
68%

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

May 8, 1964
26 min
74%

Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

33

The Brain Center at Whipple's

May 15, 1964
26 min
63%

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

34

Come Wander with Me

May 22, 1964
26 min
61%

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

35

The Fear

May 29, 1964
26 min
69%

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.

36

The Bewitchin' Pool

Jun 19, 1964
26 min
61%

Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.