The Twilight Zone - Season 5

The Twilight Zone - Season 5

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.
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Episodes36
DatesSep 27, 1963 - Jun 19, 1964
Previous Season

Episodes

In Praise of Pip
Season 5Episode 130 min

In Praise of Pip

When a small time bookie who is down on his luck decides to show a little mercy to a young man who placed a losing bet with him, his life ultimately hangs in the balance with his boss. It is at this time that he learns that his son was wounded while serving in Vietnam. Ultimately realizing he has little time left, he makes a deal with God to let his son live.

Sep 27, 1963
Steel
Season 5Episode 230 min

Steel

In 1974, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. With his next and possibly last fight approaching and his robot in need of repair, he resorts to one last desperate gamble.

Oct 4, 1963
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5Episode 330 min

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

While traveling on a plane, a man who recently was treated for a nervous breakdown is convinced that a monster is outside, intent on destroying the plane. However, his wife and the flight attendants are hesitant to believe him.

Oct 11, 1963
A Kind of a Stopwatch
Season 5Episode 430 min

A Kind of a Stopwatch

A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.

Oct 18, 1963
The Last Night of a Jockey
Season 5Episode 530 min

The Last Night of a Jockey

A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.

Oct 25, 1963
Living Doll
Season 5Episode 630 min

Living Doll

When a man's stepdaughter gets a new, talking doll, he gets rattled when it lets its negative feelings toward him known to only him.

Nov 1, 1963
The Old Man in the Cave
Season 5Episode 730 min

The Old Man in the Cave

In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town.

Nov 8, 1963
Uncle Simon
Season 5Episode 830 min

Uncle Simon

The long-suffering niece of a grumpy inventor finds no peace after his passing.

Nov 15, 1963
Probe 7 - Over and Out
Season 5Episode 930 min

Probe 7 - Over and Out

When Astronaut Colonel Cook crash lands on another planet, he promptly contacts his commanding officer, looking for a way back home. However, he is promptly told that nuclear war has destroyed earth, and as a result is stranded where he's at. It doesn't take long for him to discover that he's not the only one in the same predicament.

Nov 29, 1963
The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
Season 5Episode 1030 min

The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms

Three National Guardsmen (Ron Foster, Randy Boone, and Warren Oates) exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle.

Dec 6, 1963
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Season 5Episode 1130 min

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.

Dec 13, 1963
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Season 5Episode 1230 min

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

An old man (Ed Wynn) believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.

Dec 20, 1963
Ring-a-Ding Girl
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Ring-a-Ding Girl

When movie star Bunny Blake receives an opal ring from her hometown fan club, she sees it as an omen to go there for the town's annual picnic instead of flying to Rome to shoot a movie. Upon arriving in town, Bunny's older sister is both annoyed and curious as to why Bunny is so adamant about the picnic being called off. However, she soon learns the reason why is due to a plane crash that she has a connection to.

Dec 27, 1963
You Drive
Season 5Episode 1430 min

You Drive

While driving home from work one afternoon, an office manager named Oliver Pope accidentally hits a young child on a bike with his car. The following morning, as his wife reads the morning paper, it is reported that the child isn't expected to survive and a business rival of Oliver was arrested for the crime. Oliver then thinks he got away with the hit and run, but his car won't let him have the other man take the blame.

Jan 3, 1964
The Long Morrow
Season 5Episode 1530 min

The Long Morrow

An astronaut returns from a 30 year mission to find that his girlfriend hasn't aged at all.

Jan 10, 1964
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Season 5Episode 1630 min

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Salvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love of Leah Maitland.

Jan 17, 1964
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Season 5Episode 1730 min

Number Twelve Looks Just Like You

An unattractive young woman attempts to resist the pressure to transform into a beautiful woman and conform to new societal standards, where in a future society where everyone looks the same and lives for an extended length of time.

Jan 24, 1964
Black Leather Jackets
Season 5Episode 1830 min

Black Leather Jackets

A trio of aliens, dressed as "hoodlums" in black leather jackets, arrive in a small town, look to eradicate all life on Earth so their kind can expand on a new planet. However, one of the aliens falls in love with a local girl and is hesitant to go along with his friends' plans and ultimately tries to talk her into leaving town with him.

Jan 31, 1964
Night Call
Season 5Episode 1930 min

Night Call

When an elderly, disabled woman starts to receive phone calls in the middle of the night, she is shocked at discovering they are from the ghost of a deceased beau.

Feb 7, 1964
From Agnes - With Love
Season 5Episode 2030 min

From Agnes - With Love

Computer programmer James Elwood is called in to fix the world's most powerful computer – codenamed Agnes – and soon turns to Agnes for help in wooing a coworker named Millie. However, Agnes soon becomes jealous of James's feeling toward Millie and promptly begins sabotaging their relationship.

Feb 14, 1964
Spur of the Moment
Season 5Episode 2130 min

Spur of the Moment

An engaged heiress gets terrorized by a middle-aged woman on horseback, in an attempt to get her to call off her upcoming wedding. However, it appears that an old beau is more successful in getting the young woman to call off the wedding than her older self.

Feb 21, 1964
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Season 5Episode 2230 min

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

An adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's tale, Union Soldiers set out to hang Confederate prisoner Peyton Farquhar, but things don't go as planned when the rope breaks as Farquhar falls and apparently escapes in the river below.

Feb 28, 1964
Queen of the Nile
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Queen of the Nile

Planning on writing an article about a famous actress, a cynical journalist is intrigued as to how she is able to stay so young. As their interview progresses, he soon discovers her secret includes an ancient Egyptian scarab and the help of not so willing strangers.

Mar 6, 1964
What's in the Box
Season 5Episode 2430 min

What's in the Box

A cab driver who is constantly fighting with his wife gets his tv set repaired and see's something happen that starts to drive him out of his mind.

Mar 13, 1964
The Masks
Season 5Episode 2530 min

The Masks

A dying man, not liked by his daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren, invites them for a visit while hosting a Mardi Gras party. Realizing how greedy they are, he makes a proposition to them: wear ugly masks during his party, and he'll leave them his fortune - no questions asked. However, after they meet his conditions, the heirs soon discover they are unable to remove their grotesque masks.

Mar 20, 1964
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Season 5Episode 2630 min

I Am the Night - Color Me Black

On the morning when a man is set to be hung for killing a bigoted neighbor, the sun fails to rise. The local newspaperman in town take this as an omen, proving that an innocent man is about to pay for a crime he committed in self-defense, due to possible laziness on the part of the sheriff while investigating the murder, and the deputy perjuring himself at the trial.

Mar 27, 1964
Sounds and Silences
Season 5Episode 2730 min

Sounds and Silences

A boorish man with an obsession of loud noises drives his wife to leave him, and as a result, gets institutionalized when the smallest, most innocent sounds start sounding so magnified that cause him to go insane.

Apr 3, 1964
Caesar and Me
Season 5Episode 2830 min

Caesar and Me

A struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.

Apr 10, 1964
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5Episode 2930 min

The Jeopardy Room

When a KGB Major is trying to defect, an assassin plots a unique death unless he finds a way disarm the bomb that is hidden in his hotel room in a three hour time frame. If he fails, a sniper will shoot him from a nearby hotel room.

Apr 17, 1964
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Season 5Episode 3030 min

Stopover in a Quiet Town

When Bob and Millie Frazier wake up in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar town after drinking too much at a party the previous night, they try to remember what happened between when they left the party to when they woke up. Things then get complicated when they hear a mysterious child laughing in the distance and ultimately discover that they are unable to leave.

Apr 24, 1964
The Encounter
Season 5Episode 3130 min

The Encounter

When a World War II veteran is cleaning out his attic, a Japanese American gardener comes by to inquire about having his lawn cut. The pair soon gets locked in the attic and have to come to terms with past prejudices that was brought to the forefront during that fateful time in history.

May 1, 1964
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Season 5Episode 3230 min

Mr. Garrity and the Graves

A peddler arrives in an Old West town and claims that he has the ability to raise the dead... and he won't use it, for a price.

May 8, 1964
The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season 5Episode 3330 min

The Brain Center at Whipple's

When a heartless manufacturing CEO decides to completely automate his factory, he decides to ignore the pleas of those around him to not follow through with his plans. As a result, his board of directors decide to force Mr. Whipple to take an early retirement and replace him with a robot. As a result, he goes down to a nearby bar to lament his reversal of fortune, only to find the foreman he laid off drinking away the same sorrows.

May 15, 1964
Come Wander with Me
Season 5Episode 3430 min

Come Wander with Me

When singer Floyd Burney travels to a small, backwoods community looking for an authentic folk song to become his next hit song, he gets more than he bargained for when he meets a beautiful girl who was destined to share a song with him.

May 22, 1964
The Fear
Season 5Episode 3530 min

The Fear

Upon Trooper Franklin's arrival at a remote cabin to check on the occupant, a big city fashion editor looking to relax from the hustle and bustle of big city life, the pair seem to be stalked by giant aliens.

May 29, 1964
The Bewitchin' Pool
Season 5Episode 3630 min

The Bewitchin' Pool

Two children escape their bickering parents through a portal in the bottom of their swimming pool to a magical land watched over by a kindly old woman the children call Aunt T.

Jun 19, 1964

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