Season 5
36 episodes · 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.
1In 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.
2Steel
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.
3Nightmare 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.
4A Kind of a Stopwatch
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
5The 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.
6Living 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!
7The Old Man in the Cave
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
8Uncle Simon
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
9Probe 7, Over and Out
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
10The 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.
11A 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.
12Ninety Years Without Slumbering
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
13Ring-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.
14You 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.
15The Long Morrow
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
16The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
17Number 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.
18Black 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.
19Night Call
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
20From 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.
21Spur of the Moment
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
22An 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...
23Queen of the Nile
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
24What's in the Box
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
25The 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.
26I 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.
27Sounds and Silences
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
28Caesar and Me
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
29The 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.
30Stopover in a Quiet Town
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
31The Encounter
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
32Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
33The Brain Center at Whipple's
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
34Come Wander with Me
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
35The Fear
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
36The Bewitchin' Pool
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.