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The Twilight Zone Season 5

September. 27,1963

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The Twilight Zone

1959 / TV-PG

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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.

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Rod Serling

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The Twilight Zone Season 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 36 - The Bewitchin' Pool

First Aired: June. 19,1964

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

Episode 35 - The Fear

First Aired: May. 29,1964

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

Episode 34 - Come Wander with Me

First Aired: May. 22,1964

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

Episode 33 - The Brain Center at Whipple's

First Aired: May. 15,1964

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

Episode 32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves

First Aired: May. 08,1964

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

Episode 31 - The Encounter

First Aired: May. 01,1964

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

Episode 30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town

First Aired: April. 24,1964

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

Episode 29 - The Jeopardy Room

First Aired: April. 17,1964

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 28 - Caesar and Me

First Aired: April. 10,1964

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

Episode 27 - Sounds and Silences

First Aired: April. 03,1964

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

Episode 26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black

First Aired: March. 27,1964

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 25 - The Masks

First Aired: March. 20,1964

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 24 - What's in the Box

First Aired: March. 13,1964

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

Episode 23 - Queen of the Nile

First Aired: March. 06,1964

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

Episode 22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

First Aired: February. 28,1964

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 21 - Spur of the Moment

First Aired: February. 21,1964

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

Episode 20 - From Agnes – With Love

First Aired: February. 14,1964

A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.

Episode 19 - Night Call

First Aired: February. 07,1964

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

Episode 18 - Black Leather Jackets

First Aired: January. 31,1964

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 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

First Aired: January. 24,1964

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 16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

First Aired: January. 17,1964

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Episode 15 - The Long Morrow

First Aired: January. 10,1964

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

Episode 14 - You Drive

First Aired: January. 03,1964

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 13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl

First Aired: December. 27,1963

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 12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

First Aired: December. 20,1963

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

Episode 11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

First Aired: December. 13,1963

Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

Episode 10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

First Aired: December. 06,1963

A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Episode 9 - Probe 7, Over and Out

First Aired: November. 29,1963

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

Episode 8 - Uncle Simon

First Aired: November. 15,1963

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

Episode 7 - The Old Man in the Cave

First Aired: November. 08,1963

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

Episode 6 - Living Doll

First Aired: November. 01,1963

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 5 - The Last Night of a Jockey

First Aired: October. 25,1963

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 4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch

First Aired: October. 18,1963

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

Episode 3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

First Aired: October. 11,1963

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

Episode 2 - Steel

First Aired: October. 04,1963

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 1 - In Praise of Pip

First Aired: September. 27,1963

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.