Series SeasonSeason 5 episodes1963

The Twilight Zone

Season 5

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

Each episode has its own detail page.

Episode 126 min1963-09-27

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.

Episode 226 min1963-10-04

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.

Episode 326 min1963-10-11

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.

Episode 426 min1963-10-18

A Kind of a Stopwatch

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

Episode 526 min1963-10-25

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.

Episode 626 min1963-11-01

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!

Episode 726 min1963-11-08

The Old Man in the Cave

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

Episode 826 min1963-11-15

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.

Episode 926 min1963-11-29

Probe 7, Over and Out

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

Episode 1026 min1963-12-06

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.

Episode 1126 min1963-12-13

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.

Episode 1226 min1963-12-20

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

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

Episode 1326 min1963-12-27

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.

Episode 1426 min1964-01-03

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.

Episode 1526 min1964-01-10

The Long Morrow

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

Episode 1626 min1964-01-17

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Episode 1726 min1964-01-24

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.

Episode 1826 min1964-01-31

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.

Episode 1926 min1964-02-07

Night Call

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

Episode 2026 min1964-02-14

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.

Episode 2126 min1964-02-21

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.

Episode 2226 min1964-02-28

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...

Episode 2326 min1964-03-06

Queen of the Nile

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

Episode 2426 min1964-03-13

What's in the Box

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

Episode 2526 min1964-03-20

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.

Episode 2626 min1964-03-27

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.

Episode 2726 min1964-04-03

Sounds and Silences

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

Episode 2826 min1964-04-10

Caesar and Me

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

Episode 2926 min1964-04-17

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.