Season 5
Season 5

Season 5

The Twilight Zone

36 episodes27/09/1963★ 6.9

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

In Praise of Pip
S5 · E1 · 27/09/1963 · 26 min

In Praise of Pip

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.

★ 6.2 · 13 votes
Steel
S5 · E2 · 04/10/1963 · 26 min

Steel

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.

★ 6.5 · 11 votes
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
S5 · E3 · 11/10/1963 · 26 min

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

★ 8.2 · 38 votes
A Kind of a Stopwatch
S5 · E4 · 18/10/1963 · 26 min

A Kind of a Stopwatch

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

★ 7.2 · 13 votes
The Last Night of a Jockey
S5 · E5 · 25/10/1963 · 26 min

The Last Night of a Jockey

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.

★ 6.3 · 11 votes
Living Doll
S5 · E6 · 01/11/1963 · 26 min

Living Doll

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!

★ 7.7 · 20 votes
The Old Man in the Cave
S5 · E7 · 08/11/1963 · 26 min

The Old Man in the Cave

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

★ 7.7 · 11 votes
Uncle Simon
S5 · E8 · 15/11/1963 · 26 min

Uncle Simon

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

★ 7.0 · 11 votes
Probe 7, Over and Out
S5 · E9 · 29/11/1963 · 26 min

Probe 7, Over and Out

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

★ 7.1 · 11 votes
The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
S5 · E10 · 06/12/1963 · 26 min

The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

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

★ 6.1 · 12 votes
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
S5 · E11 · 13/12/1963 · 26 min

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

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

★ 6.3 · 10 votes
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
S5 · E12 · 20/12/1963 · 26 min

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

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

★ 6.1 · 11 votes
Ring-a-Ding Girl
S5 · E13 · 27/12/1963 · 26 min

Ring-a-Ding Girl

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.

★ 6.8 · 13 votes
You Drive
S5 · E14 · 03/01/1964 · 26 min

You Drive

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.

★ 7.8 · 11 votes
The Long Morrow
S5 · E15 · 10/01/1964 · 26 min

The Long Morrow

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

★ 7.3 · 12 votes
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
S5 · E16 · 17/01/1964 · 26 min

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

★ 7.5 · 11 votes
Number 12 Looks Just Like You
S5 · E17 · 24/01/1964 · 26 min

Number 12 Looks Just Like You

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.

★ 7.7 · 15 votes
Black Leather Jackets
S5 · E18 · 31/01/1964 · 26 min

Black Leather Jackets

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.

★ 5.8 · 10 votes
Night Call
S5 · E19 · 07/02/1964 · 26 min

Night Call

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

★ 7.1 · 12 votes
From Agnes – With Love
S5 · E20 · 14/02/1964 · 26 min

From Agnes – With Love

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

★ 6.2 · 10 votes
Spur of the Moment
S5 · E21 · 21/02/1964 · 26 min

Spur of the Moment

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

★ 6.4 · 10 votes
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
S5 · E22 · 28/02/1964 · 26 min

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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...

★ 8.0 · 17 votes
Queen of the Nile
S5 · E23 · 06/03/1964 · 26 min

Queen of the Nile

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

★ 6.4 · 10 votes
What's in the Box
S5 · E24 · 13/03/1964 · 26 min

What's in the Box

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

★ 6.9 · 11 votes
The Masks
S5 · E25 · 20/03/1964 · 26 min

The Masks

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.

★ 8.4 · 19 votes
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
S5 · E26 · 27/03/1964 · 26 min

I Am the Night - Color Me Black

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.

★ 7.1 · 11 votes
Sounds and Silences
S5 · E27 · 03/04/1964 · 26 min

Sounds and Silences

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

★ 5.5 · 13 votes
Caesar and Me
S5 · E28 · 10/04/1964 · 26 min

Caesar and Me

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

★ 6.3 · 12 votes
The Jeopardy Room
S5 · E29 · 17/04/1964 · 26 min

The Jeopardy Room

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.

★ 7.2 · 11 votes
Stopover in a Quiet Town
S5 · E30 · 24/04/1964 · 26 min

Stopover in a Quiet Town

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

★ 7.4 · 16 votes
The Encounter
S5 · E31 · 01/05/1964 · 26 min

The Encounter

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

★ 6.8 · 12 votes
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
S5 · E32 · 08/05/1964 · 26 min

Mr. Garrity and the Graves

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

★ 7.4 · 10 votes
The Brain Center at Whipple's
S5 · E33 · 15/05/1964 · 26 min

The Brain Center at Whipple's

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

★ 6.4 · 10 votes
Come Wander with Me
S5 · E34 · 22/05/1964 · 26 min

Come Wander with Me

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

★ 6.1 · 10 votes
The Fear
S5 · E35 · 29/05/1964 · 26 min

The Fear

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

★ 6.9 · 13 votes
The Bewitchin' Pool
S5 · E36 · 19/06/1964 · 26 min

The Bewitchin' Pool

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

★ 6.1 · 10 votes

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