• Air date: 27 Sep '63 36 episodes
      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 (36)
    • 1. In Praise of Pip

      27 Sep '63
      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.
    • 2. Steel

      04 Oct '63
      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.
    • 3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

      11 Oct '63
      No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.
    • 4. A Kind of a Stopwatch

      18 Oct '63
      The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
    • 5. The Last Night of a Jockey

      25 Oct '63
      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.
    • 6. Living Doll

      01 Nov '63
      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!
    • 7. The Old Man in the Cave

      08 Nov '63
      A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
    • 8. Uncle Simon

      15 Nov '63
      To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
    • 9. Probe 7 - Over and Out

      29 Nov '63
      The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
    • 10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

      06 Dec '63
      A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
    • 11. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

      13 Dec '63
      Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
    • 12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering

      20 Dec '63
      An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
    • 13. Ring-a-Ding Girl

      27 Dec '63
      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.
    • 14. You Drive

      03 Jan '64
      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.
    • 15. The Long Morrow

      10 Jan '64
      Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
    • 16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

      17 Jan '64
      A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
    • 17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You

      24 Jan '64
      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.
    • 18. Black Leather Jackets

      31 Jan '64
      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.
    • 19. Night Call

      07 Feb '64
      An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.
    • 20. From Agnes – With Love

      14 Feb '64
      A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
    • 21. Spur of the Moment

      21 Feb '64
      After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
    • 22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

      28 Feb '64
      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...
    • 23. Queen of the Nile

      06 Mar '64
      Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
    • 24. What's in the Box

      13 Mar '64
      A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
    • 25. The Masks

      20 Mar '64
      A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.