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Season 5

Season 5

Season 5

Season 5

Season 5

  • Air date:1963-09-27
  • User score:
    6.9
  • Number of episodes:36
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.

List of Episodes

In Praise of Pip
S5E1
6.2

Air date: 1963-09-27

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E2
6.6

Air date: 1963-10-04

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E3
8.2

Air date: 1963-10-11

Runtime: 26 min

No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.

A Kind of a Stopwatch
S5E4
7.3

Air date: 1963-10-18

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E5
6.4

Air date: 1963-10-25

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E6
7.7

Air date: 1963-11-01

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E7
7.7

Air date: 1963-11-08

Runtime: 26 min

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

Uncle Simon
S5E8
7.1

Air date: 1963-11-15

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E9
7.1

Air date: 1963-11-29

Runtime: 26 min

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

The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
S5E10
6.4

Air date: 1963-12-06

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E11
6.2

Air date: 1963-12-13

Runtime: 26 min

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

Ninety Years Without Slumbering
S5E12
6.4

Air date: 1963-12-20

Runtime: 26 min

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

Ring-a-Ding Girl
S5E13
6.5

Air date: 1963-12-27

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E14
7.7

Air date: 1964-01-03

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E15
7.7

Air date: 1964-01-10

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
S5E16
7.4

Air date: 1964-01-17

Runtime: 26 min

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Number 12 Looks Just Like You
S5E17
8.0

Air date: 1964-01-24

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E18
5.9

Air date: 1964-01-31

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E19
7.0

Air date: 1964-02-07

Runtime: 26 min

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

From Agnes – With Love
S5E20
6.4

Air date: 1964-02-14

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E21
6.4

Air date: 1964-02-21

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E22
7.9

Air date: 1964-02-28

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E23
6.3

Air date: 1964-03-06

Runtime: 26 min

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

What's in the Box
S5E24
7.0

Air date: 1964-03-13

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Masks
S5E25
8.4

Air date: 1964-03-20

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E26
7.1

Air date: 1964-03-27

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E27
5.5

Air date: 1964-04-03

Runtime: 26 min

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

Caesar and Me
S5E28
6.0

Air date: 1964-04-10

Runtime: 26 min

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

The Jeopardy Room
S5E29
7.2

Air date: 1964-04-17

Runtime: 26 min

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
S5E30
7.3

Air date: 1964-04-24

Runtime: 26 min

Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars.

The Encounter
S5E31
6.8

Air date: 1964-05-01

Runtime: 26 min

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

Mr. Garrity and the Graves
S5E32
7.4

Air date: 1964-05-08

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Brain Center at Whipple's
S5E33
6.4

Air date: 1964-05-15

Runtime: 26 min

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

Come Wander with Me
S5E34
6.1

Air date: 1964-05-22

Runtime: 26 min

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

The Fear
S5E35
6.9

Air date: 1964-05-29

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Bewitchin' Pool
S5E36
6.1

Air date: 1964-06-19

Runtime: 26 min

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

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