The Twilight Zone: Season 5
1963 · 36 episodes · ★ 6.9
What Season 5 of The Twilight Zone
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.
Season 5 Episodes
5x01 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.
Directed by Joseph M. Newman · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Bill Mumy, Bobby Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, Jack Klugman
5x02 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.
Directed by Don Weis · Written by Richard Matheson · Starring Lee Marvin, Frank London, Chuck Hicks, Joe Mantell
5x03 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Directed by Richard Donner · Written by Richard Matheson · Starring William Shatner, Nick Cravat, Ed Kemmer, Christine White
5x04 A Kind of a Stopwatch
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Directing: John Rich · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Roy Roberts, Doris Singleton, Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye
5x05 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.
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman · Screenplay: Rod Serling · Starring: Mickey Rooney
5x06 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!
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian · Written by Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont · Starring June Foray, Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Mary LaRoche
5x07 The Old Man in the Cave
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr. · Written by Henry Slesar, Rod Serling · Starring James Coburn, John Craven, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd
5x08 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.
Directed by Don Siegel · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Constance Ford, Cedric Hardwicke, Ian Wolfe, John McLiam
5x09 Probe 7, Over and Out
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Directed by Ted Post · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Harold Gould, Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower
5x10 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.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Robert Bray, Warren Oates, Greg Morris, Randy Boone
5x11 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.
Directing: Bernard Girard · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke, Patrick O'Neal
5x12 Ninety Years Without Slumbering
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Directing: Roger Kay · Writers: George Clayton Johnson, Richard De Roy · Starring: Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, Carol Byron, John Pickard
5x13 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.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. · Starring: Betty Lou Gerson, Maggie McNamara, Hank Patterson, David Macklin
5x14 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.
Directed by: John Brahm · Screenplay: Earl Hamner, Jr. · Starring: Helen Westcott, Kevin Hagen, Edward Andrews, Totty Ames
5x15 The Long Morrow
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Directing: Robert Florey · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Mariette Hartley, Robert Lansing, George Macready, Edward Binns
5x16 The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Directed by Don Siegel · Written by Jerry McNeely, Henry Slesar · Starring Douglass Dumbrille, J. Pat O'Malley, Gail Kobe, Vaughn Taylor
5x17 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.
Directed by Abner Biberman · Written by Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin · Starring Suzy Parker, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long, Pamela Austin
5x18 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.
Directing: Joseph M. Newman · Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. · Starring: Shelley Fabares, Denver Pyle, Michael Forest, Irene Hervey
5x19 Night Call
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Directing: Jacques Tourneur · Writer: Richard Matheson · Starring: Gladys Cooper, Martine Bartlett, Nora Marlowe
5x20 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.
Directed by: Richard Donner · Screenplay: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Wally Cox, Ralph Taeger, Don Keefer, Sue Randall
5x21 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.
Directed by Elliot Silverstein · Written by Richard Matheson · Starring Diana Hyland, Marsha Hunt, Robert Hogan, Philip Ober
5x22 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...
Directing: Robert Enrico · Starring: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly
5x23 Queen of the Nile
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Directed by John Brahm · Written by Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont · Starring Celia Lovsky, Ann Blyth, Frank Ferguson, Lee Philips
5x24 What's in the Box
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Directed by Richard L. Bare · Written by Martin Goldsmith · Starring William Demarest, Joan Blondell, Sterling Holloway, Robert McCord
5x25 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.
Directed by Ida Lupino · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Robert Keith, Alan Sues, Milton Selzer, Willis Bouchey
5x26 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.
Directing: Abner Biberman · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Ivan Dixon, Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey
5x27 Sounds and Silences
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Directing: Richard Donner · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Penny Singleton, Francis De Sales, William Benedict, Michael Fox
5x28 Caesar and Me
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Directing: Robert Butler · Writer: Adele T. Strassfield · Starring: Jackie Cooper, Stafford Repp, Morgan Brittany, Sarah Selby
5x29 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.
Directing: Richard Donner · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: John van Dreelen, Martin Landau, Bob Kelljan
5x30 Stopover in a Quiet Town
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
Directed by Ron Winston · Written by Earl Hamner, Jr. · Starring Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone, Karen Norris
5x31 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.
Directing: Robert Butler · Writer: Martin Goldsmith · Starring: George Takei, Neville Brand
5x32 Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Directing: Ted Post · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Stanley Adams, John Mitchum, J. Pat O'Malley, John Dehner
5x33 The Brain Center at Whipple's
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Directed by Richard Donner · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Thalmus Rasulala, Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Ted de Corsia
5x34 Come Wander with Me
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Directing: Richard Donner · Writer: Anthony Wilson · Starring: Hank Patterson, Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, Jonathan Bolt
5x35 The Fear
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Directed by Ted Post · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Peter Mark Richman, Hazel Court
5x36 The Bewitchin' Pool Season Finale
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
Directed by Joseph M. Newman · Written by Earl Hamner, Jr. · Starring Jeffrey Byron, Tod Andrews, Mary Badham, Dee Hartford
Season 5 Cast
Robert McCordElectric Chair Guard (uncredited)5 episodes
Hank PattersonOld Man2 episodes
June ForayTalky Tina (voice)2 episodes
Warren OatesRichard Langsford2 episodes
Chuck HicksMover (uncredited)2 episodes
Constance FordBarbara PolkEpisode 1
Penny SingletonMrs. FlemingtonEpisode 1
Thalmus RasulalaTechnicianEpisode 1
Ivan DixonReverend AndersonEpisode 1
William DemarestJoe BrittEpisode 1
Roy RobertsMr. CooperEpisode 1
Peter Mark RichmanRobert FranklinEpisode 1
Celia LovskyViola DraperEpisode 1
Diana HylandAnne Henderson / Rider in BlackEpisode 1
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It is currently not available on any streaming platform in Spain.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Season 5 of The Twilight Zone have?
Season 5 of The Twilight Zone has 36 episodes.
When did season 5 of The Twilight Zone premiere?
Premiered on September 27, 1963.
Where to Watch Season 5 of The Twilight Zone?
It is not currently available on any subscription platform in Spain.
What is the best episode of Season 5?
According to the TMDB audience rating, episode 5x25, "The Masks", with a 8.4.