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The Twilight Zone: Season 5

Poster for The Twilight Zone Season 5

36 episodes · premiered Sep 27, 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.

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