Season 5

The Twilight Zone

Season 5

โ€œYou are about to enter another dimension.โ€

1959tvEnded5 Seasons ยท 156 Ep
Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDrama

Created by: Rod Serling

Network: CBS

Season aired: 1963-09-27

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Overview

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

About This Season

The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30โ€“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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Episodes ยท 36

1โ€“30
In Praise of Pip
1

In Praise of Pip

26m1963-09-27โ˜… 6.2

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.

Steel
2

Steel

26m1963-10-04โ˜… 6.5

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.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
3

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

26m1963-10-11โ˜… 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.

A Kind of a Stopwatch
4

A Kind of a Stopwatch

26m1963-10-18โ˜… 7.2

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

The Last Night of a Jockey
5

The Last Night of a Jockey

26m1963-10-25โ˜… 6.3

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.

Living Doll
6

Living Doll

26m1963-11-01โ˜… 7.8

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!

The Old Man in the Cave
7

The Old Man in the Cave

26m1963-11-08โ˜… 7.7

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

Uncle Simon
8

Uncle Simon

26m1963-11-15โ˜… 7

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

Probe 7, Over and Out
9

Probe 7, Over and Out

26m1963-11-29โ˜… 7.1

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

The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
10

The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

26m1963-12-06โ˜… 6.1

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

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
11

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

26m1963-12-13โ˜… 6.3

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

Ninety Years Without Slumbering
12

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

26m1963-12-20โ˜… 6

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

Ring-a-Ding Girl
13

Ring-a-Ding Girl

26m1963-12-27โ˜… 6.8

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.

You Drive
14

You Drive

26m1964-01-03โ˜… 7.9

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.

The Long Morrow
15

The Long Morrow

26m1964-01-10โ˜… 7.5

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

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
16

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

26m1964-01-17โ˜… 7.5

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Number 12 Looks Just Like You
17

Number 12 Looks Just Like You

26m1964-01-24โ˜… 7.7

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.

Black Leather Jackets
18

Black Leather Jackets

26m1964-01-31โ˜… 5.9

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.

Night Call
19

Night Call

26m1964-02-07โ˜… 7

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

From Agnes โ€“ With Love
20

From Agnes โ€“ With Love

26m1964-02-14โ˜… 6.4

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

Spur of the Moment
21

Spur of the Moment

26m1964-02-21โ˜… 6.4

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

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
22

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

26m1964-02-28โ˜… 7.9

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...

Queen of the Nile
23

Queen of the Nile

26m1964-03-06โ˜… 6.3

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

What's in the Box
24

What's in the Box

26m1964-03-13โ˜… 7

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

The Masks
25

The Masks

26m1964-03-20โ˜… 8.4

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.

I Am the Night - Color Me Black
26

I Am the Night - Color Me Black

26m1964-03-27โ˜… 7.1

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.

Sounds and Silences
27

Sounds and Silences

26m1964-04-03โ˜… 5.5

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

Caesar and Me
28

Caesar and Me

26m1964-04-10โ˜… 6

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

The Jeopardy Room
29

The Jeopardy Room

26m1964-04-17โ˜… 7.2

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.

Stopover in a Quiet Town
30

Stopover in a Quiet Town

26m1964-04-24โ˜… 7.3

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

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