Season 5

Season 5

1963-09-27
36 Episodes

Overview

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

In Praise of Pip

1. In Praise of Pip

1963-09-27

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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

1963-10-04

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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

1963-10-11

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

A Kind of a Stopwatch

4. A Kind of a Stopwatch

1963-10-18

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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

1963-10-25

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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

1963-11-01

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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

1963-11-08

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

Uncle Simon

8. Uncle Simon

1963-11-15

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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

1963-11-29

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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

1963-12-06

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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

1963-12-13

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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

1963-12-20

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

Ring-a-Ding Girl

13. Ring-a-Ding Girl

1963-12-27

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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

1964-01-03

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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

1964-01-10

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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

1964-01-17

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A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Number 12 Looks Just Like You

17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You

1964-01-24

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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

1964-01-31

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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

1964-02-07

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

From Agnes – With Love

20. From Agnes – With Love

1964-02-14

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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

1964-02-21

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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

1964-02-28

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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

1964-03-06

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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

1964-03-13

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

The Masks

25. The Masks

1964-03-20

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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

1964-03-27

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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

1964-04-03

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

Caesar and Me

28. Caesar and Me

1964-04-10

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A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

The Jeopardy Room

29. The Jeopardy Room

1964-04-17

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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

1964-04-24

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

The Encounter

31. The Encounter

1964-05-01

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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

32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves

1964-05-08

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

The Brain Center at Whipple's

33. The Brain Center at Whipple's

1964-05-15

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A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

Come Wander with Me

34. Come Wander with Me

1964-05-22

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A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

The Fear

35. The Fear

1964-05-29

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

The Bewitchin' Pool

36. The Bewitchin' Pool

1964-06-19

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