Season 5

Season • Sep 27, 1963–Jun 19, 1964

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. S5E1 - In Praise of Pip

    In Praise of Pip

    26 min • Sep 27, 1963 (63 years ago)

    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. S5E2 - Steel

    Steel

    26 min • Oct 4, 1963 (63 years ago)

    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. S5E3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    26 min • Oct 11, 1963 (63 years ago)

    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. S5E4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch

    A Kind of a Stopwatch

    26 min • Oct 18, 1963 (62 years ago)

    The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.

  5. S5E5 - The Last Night of a Jockey

    The Last Night of a Jockey

    26 min • Oct 25, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E6 - Living Doll

    Living Doll

    26 min • Nov 1, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E7 - The Old Man in the Cave

    The Old Man in the Cave

    26 min • Nov 8, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  8. S5E8 - Uncle Simon

    Uncle Simon

    26 min • Nov 15, 1963 (62 years ago)

    To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.

  9. S5E9 - Probe 7, Over and Out

    Probe 7, Over and Out

    26 min • Nov 29, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  10. S5E10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

    The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

    26 min • Dec 6, 1963 (62 years ago)

    A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

  11. S5E11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

    A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

    26 min • Dec 13, 1963 (62 years ago)

    Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

  12. S5E12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

    Ninety Years Without Slumbering

    26 min • Dec 20, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  13. S5E13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl

    Ring-a-Ding Girl

    26 min • Dec 27, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E14 - You Drive

    You Drive

    26 min • Jan 3, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E15 - The Long Morrow

    The Long Morrow

    26 min • Jan 10, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  16. S5E16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

    The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

    26 min • Jan 17, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

  17. S5E17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

    Number 12 Looks Just Like You

    26 min • Jan 24, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E18 - Black Leather Jackets

    Black Leather Jackets

    26 min • Jan 31, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E19 - Night Call

    Night Call

    26 min • Feb 7, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  20. S5E20 - From Agnes – With Love

    From Agnes – With Love

    26 min • Feb 14, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.

  21. S5E21 - Spur of the Moment

    Spur of the Moment

    26 min • Feb 21, 1964 (62 years ago)

    After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.

  22. S5E22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    26 min • Feb 28, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E23 - Queen of the Nile

    Queen of the Nile

    26 min • Mar 6, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  24. S5E24 - What's in the Box

    What's in the Box

    26 min • Mar 13, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  25. S5E25 - The Masks

    The Masks

    26 min • Mar 20, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black

    I Am the Night - Color Me Black

    26 min • Mar 27, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E27 - Sounds and Silences

    Sounds and Silences

    26 min • Apr 3, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  28. S5E28 - Caesar and Me

    Caesar and Me

    26 min • Apr 10, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

  29. S5E29 - The Jeopardy Room

    The Jeopardy Room

    26 min • Apr 17, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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. S5E30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town

    Stopover in a Quiet Town

    26 min • Apr 24, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  31. S5E31 - The Encounter

    The Encounter

    26 min • May 1, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.

  32. S5E32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves

    Mr. Garrity and the Graves

    26 min • May 8, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  33. S5E33 - The Brain Center at Whipple's

    The Brain Center at Whipple's

    26 min • May 15, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

  34. S5E34 - Come Wander with Me

    Come Wander with Me

    26 min • May 22, 1964 (62 years ago)

    A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

  35. S5E35 - The Fear

    The Fear

    26 min • May 29, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  36. S5E36 - The Bewitchin' Pool

    The Bewitchin' Pool

    26 min • Jun 19, 1964 (62 years ago)

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