Overview of 'The Twilight Zone' Season 5

The Twilight Zone (1959)

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Writing:

Rod Serling
George Clayton Johnson
Richard Matheson

Stars:

Release Date: 1959-10-02
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5

8.9/10

8.4/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 25

Season 5 Episode List

Episode 1 - In Praise of Pip
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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.
Episode 2 - Steel
Release Date: 1963-10-04
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.
Episode 3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Release Date: 1963-10-11
No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.
Episode 4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch
Release Date: 1963-10-18
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Episode 5 - The Last Night of a Jockey
Release Date: 1963-10-25
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.
Episode 6 - Living Doll
Release Date: 1963-11-01
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!
Episode 7 - The Old Man in the Cave
Release Date: 1963-11-08
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Episode 8 - Uncle Simon
Release Date: 1963-11-15
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
Episode 9 - Probe 7, Over and Out
Release Date: 1963-11-29
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Episode 10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
Release Date: 1963-12-06
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Episode 11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Release Date: 1963-12-13
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Episode 12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Release Date: 1963-12-20
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Episode 13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl
Release Date: 1963-12-27
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.
Episode 14 - You Drive
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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.
Episode 15 - The Long Morrow
Release Date: 1964-01-10
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Episode 16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Release Date: 1964-01-17
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Episode 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Release Date: 1964-01-24
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.
Episode 18 - Black Leather Jackets
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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.
Episode 19 - Night Call
Release Date: 1964-02-07
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Episode 20 - From Agnes – With Love
Release Date: 1964-02-14
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Episode 21 - Spur of the Moment
Release Date: 1964-02-21
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
Episode 22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Release Date: 1964-02-28
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...
Episode 23 - Queen of the Nile
Release Date: 1964-03-06
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Episode 24 - What's in the Box
Release Date: 1964-03-13
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Episode 25 - The Masks
Release Date: 1964-03-20
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.
Episode 26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Release Date: 1964-03-27
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.
Episode 27 - Sounds and Silences
Release Date: 1964-04-03
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Episode 28 - Caesar and Me
Release Date: 1964-04-10
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Episode 29 - The Jeopardy Room
Release Date: 1964-04-17
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.
Episode 30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town
Release Date: 1964-04-24
Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars.
Episode 31 - The Encounter
Release Date: 1964-05-01
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Episode 32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Release Date: 1964-05-08
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Episode 33 - The Brain Center at Whipple's
Release Date: 1964-05-15
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Episode 34 - Come Wander with Me
Release Date: 1964-05-22
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Episode 35 - The Fear
Release Date: 1964-05-29
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Episode 36 - The Bewitchin' Pool
Release Date: 1964-06-19
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.