The Twilight Zone Season 5

(1963) September - June | # of Episodes : 36

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8.4

Series Details

Seasons: 5

Total Episodes: 156

Creators: Rod Serling

Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Oct 2, 1959

Recent Air Date: Jun 19, 1964

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-PG

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Production Companies: Cayuga Productions , CBS Productions

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Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rod Serling

Self - Host

Age : 50 | Popularity : 5%

Episodes

Episode 1

27 September 1963 - 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.

Episode 2

04 October 1963 - 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.

Episode 3

11 October 1963 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

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

Episode 4

18 October 1963 - A Kind of a Stopwatch

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

Episode 5

25 October 1963 - 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.

Episode 6

01 November 1963 - 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!

Episode 7

08 November 1963 - The Old Man in the Cave

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

Episode 8

15 November 1963 - 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.

Episode 9

29 November 1963 - Probe 7, Over and Out

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

Episode 10

06 December 1963 - 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.

Episode 11

13 December 1963 - 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.

Episode 12

20 December 1963 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

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

Episode 13

27 December 1963 - 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.

Episode 14

03 January 1964 - 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.

Episode 15

10 January 1964 - The Long Morrow

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

Episode 16

17 January 1964 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Episode 17

24 January 1964 - 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.

Episode 18

31 January 1964 - 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.

Episode 19

07 February 1964 - Night Call

An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.

Episode 20

14 February 1964 - 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.

Episode 21

21 February 1964 - 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.

Episode 22

28 February 1964 - 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...

Episode 23

06 March 1964 - Queen of the Nile

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.

Episode 24

13 March 1964 - What's in the Box

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

Episode 25

20 March 1964 - The Masks

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

Episode 26

27 March 1964 - 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.

Episode 27

03 April 1964 - Sounds and Silences

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

Episode 28

10 April 1964 - Caesar and Me

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

Episode 29

17 April 1964 - 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.