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Season 5
September 27, 1963

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.

01. In 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.

26min
September 27, 1963

02. Steel

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.

26min
October 4, 1963

03. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

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

26min
October 11, 1963

04. A Kind of a Stopwatch

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

26min
October 18, 1963

05. The 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.

26min
October 25, 1963

06. Living 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!

26min
November 1, 1963

07. The Old Man in the Cave

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

26min
November 8, 1963

08. Uncle Simon

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

26min
November 15, 1963

09. Probe 7, Over and Out

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

26min
November 29, 1963

10. The 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.

26min
December 6, 1963

11. A 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.

26min
December 13, 1963

12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering

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

26min
December 20, 1963

13. Ring-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.

26min
December 27, 1963

14. You 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.

26min
January 3, 1964

15. The Long Morrow

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

26min
January 10, 1964

16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

26min
January 17, 1964

17. Number 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.

26min
January 24, 1964

18. Black 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.

26min
January 31, 1964

19. Night Call

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

26min
February 7, 1964

20. From 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.

26min
February 14, 1964

21. Spur of the Moment

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

26min
February 21, 1964

22. An 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...

26min
February 28, 1964

23. Queen of the Nile

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

26min
March 6, 1964

24. What's in the Box

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

26min
March 13, 1964

25. The 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.

26min
March 20, 1964

26. I 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.

26min
March 27, 1964

27. Sounds and Silences

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

26min
April 3, 1964

28. Caesar and Me

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

26min
April 10, 1964

29. The 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.

26min
April 17, 1964

30. Stopover in a Quiet Town

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

26min
April 24, 1964

31. The Encounter

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

26min
May 1, 1964

32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves

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

26min
May 8, 1964

33. The Brain Center at Whipple's

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

26min
May 15, 1964

34. Come Wander with Me

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

26min
May 22, 1964

35. The Fear

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

26min
May 29, 1964

36. The Bewitchin' Pool

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

26min
June 19, 1964