The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 5)

The Twilight Zone
	Season 5
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	36
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 27, 1963 –; June 19, 1964
Season chronology

The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm (EST) 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.[1] A color version of the opening was later used for Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
121	1	"In Praise of Pip"	Joseph M. Newman	Rod Serling	September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)	2607
A bookie (Jack Klugman) receives news that his son Pip (Bobby Diamond) has been seriously wounded in combat. He soon gets the chance to not only see his son one last time but also to save him.
122	2	"Steel"	Don Weis	Richard Matheson	October 4, 1963 (1963-10-04)	2602
In 1974, a boxing promoter (Lee Marvin) tries to get the most out of his broken-down robot boxer.
123	3	"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"	Richard Donner	Richard Matheson	October 11, 1963 (1963-10-11)	2605
A salesman (William Shatner) recovering from a nervous breakdown sees a creature on the wing of the airplane he is on, but no one believes him. Note: This was remade as Segment IV of Twilight Zone: The Movie, with George Miller directing. It is also the basis for "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet", the second episode of the fourth Twilight Zone series.
124	4	"A Kind of a Stopwatch"	John Rich	Based on a story by : Michael D. Rosenthal Teleplay by : Rod Serling	October 18, 1963 (1963-10-18)	2609
A talkative bore (Richard Erdman) acquires a stopwatch that halts time.
125	5	"The Last Night of a Jockey"	Joseph M. Newman	Rod Serling	October 25, 1963 (1963-10-25)	2616
A disgraced jockey (Mickey Rooney) is granted his wish to be "big."
126	6	"Living Doll"	Richard C. Sarafian	Charles Beaumont	November 1, 1963 (1963-11-01)	2621
A man (Telly Savalas) finds himself being actually physically threatened by his stepdaughter's (Tracy Stratford) new talking doll (voiced by June Foray).
127	7	"The Old Man in the Cave"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Based on the short story "The Old Man" by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Rod Serling	November 8, 1963 (1963-11-08)	2603
In 1974, a former soldier (James Coburn) and his band of scavengers cause discord for a community of atomic war survivors who are being guided by an unseen cave dweller.
128	8	"Uncle Simon"	Don Siegel	Rod Serling	November 15, 1963 (1963-11-15)	2604
The long-suffering niece (Constance Ford) of a grumpy inventor (Cedric Hardwicke) finds no peace after his passing.
129	9	"Probe 7, Over and Out"	Ted Post	Rod Serling	November 29, 1963 (1963-11-29)	2622
An astronaut (Richard Basehart) crash-lands on a distant planet and learns that his own planet has been destroyed by nuclear war. He soon discovers that he is not alone on this new world when he meets a humanoid alien survivor (Antoinette Bower) from a runaway planet.
130	10	"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"	Alan Crosland Jr.	Rod Serling	December 6, 1963 (1963-12-06)	2606
Three National Guardsmen (Ron Foster, Randy Boone, and Warren Oates) exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle.
131	11	"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"	Bernard Girard	Based on a story by : Lou Holz Teleplay by : Rod Serling	December 13, 1963 (1963-12-13)	2614
An old man (Patrick O'Neal) married to a younger self-absorbed woman (Ruta Lee) takes an untested youth serum.
132	12	"Ninety Years Without Slumbering"	Roger Kay	Story by : George Clayton Johnson[lower-alpha 1] Teleplay by : Richard De Roy	December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20)	2615
An old man (Ed Wynn) believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
133	13	"Ring-a-Ding Girl"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Earl Hamner, Jr.	December 27, 1963 (1963-12-27)	2623
A movie star (Maggie McNamara) receives a ring from her fan club that draws her back to her home town, where she offers to do a one-woman show to stop plans for a town picnic.
134	14	"You Drive"	John Brahm	Earl Hamner, Jr.	January 3, 1964 (1964-01-03)	2625
A hit-and-run driver (Edward Andrews) is haunted by his car after he runs into a paperboy (Michael Gorfain).
135	15	"The Long Morrow"	Robert Florey	Rod Serling	January 10, 1964 (1964-01-10)	2624
In 1987, an astronaut (Robert Lansing) falls in love with a woman (Mariette Hartley) before going on a 40-year mission into space.
136	16	"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"	Don Siegel	Based on a short story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Jerry McNeely	January 17, 1964 (1964-01-17)	2612
A suitor (Don Gordon) discovers he can trade his physical assets for those of others.
137	17	"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"	Abner Biberman	Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin	January 24, 1964 (1964-01-24)	2618
In a future society, a young woman (Collin Wilcox) resists having the surgery that her society requires to make everyone beautiful and identical.
138	18	"Black Leather Jackets"	Joseph M. Newman	Earl Hamner, Jr.	January 31, 1964 (1964-01-31)	2628
Three motorcycle-riding young men (Lee Kinsolving, Michael Forest and Tom Gilleran) are actually part of an alien invasion force. One of them falls for a local teenage girl (Shelley Fabares).
139	19	"Night Call"	Jacques Tourneur	Richard Matheson	February 7, 1964 (1964-02-07)[lower-alpha 2]	2610
An old woman (Gladys Cooper) keeps receiving frightening phone calls. This episode was originally scheduled to air on November 22, 1963, but was delayed due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is listed on CBS All Access with its intended air date between "Uncle Simon" and "Probe 7, Over and Out".
140	20	"From Agnes – With Love"	Richard Donner	Bernard C. Schoenfeld	February 14, 1964 (1964-02-14)	2629
A computer programmer (Wally Cox) receives advice on his love life from a computer that is in love with him.
141	21	"Spur of the Moment"	Elliot Silverstein	Richard Matheson	February 21, 1964 (1964-02-21)	2608
In 1939, an engaged woman (Diana Hyland) is chaseed for some unknown reason by a woman in black on horseback.
142	22	"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"	Robert Enrico	From a story by : Ambrose Bierce Adapted by : Robert Enrico	February 28, 1964 (1964-02-28)	N/A
A Confederate sympathizer (Roger Jacquet) is about to be hanged when the rope breaks, allowing him to escape and return home.
143	23	"Queen of the Nile"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	March 6, 1964 (1964-03-06)	2626
A columnist (Lee Philips) discovers the secret behind the apparent eternal youth of a film actress (Ann Blyth).
144	24	"What's in the Box"	Richard L. Bare	Martin M. Goldsmith	March 13, 1964 (1964-03-13)	2635
After the TV set is fixed by a strange TV repairman (Sterling Holloway), an unhappy couple's (William Demarest, Joan Blondell) TV set shows them hurting each other.
145	25	"The Masks"	Ida Lupino	Rod Serling	March 20, 1964 (1964-03-20)	2601
At Mardi Gras, a wealthy dying man (Robert Keith) orders his daughter (Virginia Gregg) and her family (Milton Selzer, Alan Sues and Brooke Hayward) to wear masks that show their true selves as part of a requirement to obtain his inheritance.
146	26	"I Am the Night—Color Me Black"	Abner Biberman	Rod Serling	March 27, 1964 (1964-03-27)	2630
A man (Terry Becker) is to be hanged at sunrise. On the appointed day, the sun fails to rise which starts the sheriff (Michael Constantine) and the rest of the civilians wondering why there is only darkness.
147	27	"Sounds and Silences"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	April 3, 1964 (1964-04-03)	2631
A man (John McGiver) has an obsession with loud noises which causes his wife (Penny Singleton) to leave him. Then all of the sounds in his life go haywire.
148	28	"Caesar and Me"	Robert Butler	Adele T. Strassfield	April 10, 1964 (1964-04-10)	2636
A struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.
149	29	"The Jeopardy Room"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	April 17, 1964 (1964-04-17)	2639
A political defector (Martin Landau) is forced into a game of cat-and-mouse with a rather artistic and sadistic hitman (John Van Dreelan).
150	30	"Stopover in a Quiet Town" "Strangers in Town"	Ron Winston	Earl Hamner, Jr.	April 24, 1964 (1964-04-24)	2611
A married couple (Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone) wakes up after drinking too much at a party and find themselves in a strange town devoid of life – except for the distant laughter of a child.
151	31	"The Encounter"	Robert Butler	Martin M. Goldsmith	May 1, 1964 (1964-05-01)	2640
A samurai sword sparks a conflict between a World War II veteran (Neville Brand) and a Japanese-American (George Takei).
152	32	"Mr. Garrity and the Graves"	Ted Post	Based on a story by : Mike Korologos Teleplay by : Rod Serling	May 8, 1964 (1964-05-08)	2637
In 1890, a strange traveling peddler (John Dehner) brings a dog back from the dead and offers to do the same for those in the town cemetery, making the townsfolk of Happiness, Arizona uneasy.
153	33	"The Brain Center at Whipple's"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	May 15, 1964 (1964-05-15)	2632
A factory owner (Richard Deacon) decides to replace his human employees with machines.
154	34	"Come Wander with Me"	Richard Donner	Anthony Wilson	May 22, 1964 (1964-05-22)	2641
A professional rockabilly singer (Gary Crosby) looks for an authentic song in the mountains, where he gets in trouble with the locals.
155	35	"The Fear"	Ted Post	Rod Serling	May 29, 1964 (1964-05-29)	2633
A state trooper (Peter Mark Richman) and a secluded woman (Hazel Court) experience strange incidents after the woman reports seeing lights in the sky.
156	36	"The Bewitchin' Pool"	Joseph M. Newman	Earl Hamner, Jr.	June 19, 1964 (1964-06-19)	2619
Two children (Mary Badham, Jeffrey Byron) escape from their bickering parents (Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford) by way of their swimming pool to a special place where the mysterious Aunt T (Georgia Simmons) lives.

Notes

Credited as Johnson Smith
Originally scheduled for November 22, 1963, but delayed due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy

References

TV.com episode list

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[2] Credited as Johnson Smith

[3] Originally scheduled for November 22, 1963, but delayed due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy

[1] TV.com episode list

The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes
Season 1	"Where Is Everybody?" "One for the Angels" "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" "Walking Distance" "Escape Clause" "The Lonely" "Time Enough at Last" "Perchance to Dream" "Judgment Night" "And When the Sky Was Opened" "What You Need" "The Four of Us Are Dying" "Third from the Sun" "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" "The Hitch-Hiker" "The Fever" "The Last Flight" "The Purple Testament" "Elegy" "Mirror Image" "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" "A World of Difference" "Long Live Walter Jameson" "People Are Alike All Over" "Execution" "The Big Tall Wish" "A Nice Place to Visit" "Nightmare as a Child" "A Stop at Willoughby" "The Chaser" "A Passage for Trumpet" "Mr. Bevis" "The After Hours" "The Mighty Casey" "A World of His Own"
Season 2	"King Nine Will Not Return" "The Man in the Bottle" "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" "A Thing About Machines" "The Howling Man" "Eye of the Beholder" "Nick of Time" "The Lateness of the Hour" "The Trouble with Templeton" "A Most Unusual Camera" "The Night of the Meek" "Dust" "Back There" "The Whole Truth" "The Invaders" "A Penny for Your Thoughts" "Twenty Two" "The Odyssey of Flight 33" "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" "Static" "The Prime Mover" "Long Distance Call" "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" "The Silence" "Shadow Play" "The Mind and the Matter" "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" "The Obsolete Man"
Season 3	"Two" "The Arrival" "The Shelter" "The Passersby" "A Game of Pool" "The Mirror" "The Grave" "It's a Good Life" "Deaths-Head Revisited" "The Midnight Sun" "Still Valley" "The Jungle" "Once Upon a Time" "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" "A Quality of Mercy" "Nothing in the Dark" "One More Pallbearer" "Dead Man's Shoes" "The Hunt" "Showdown with Rance McGrew" "Kick the Can" "A Piano in the House" "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" "To Serve Man" "The Fugitive" "Little Girl Lost" "Person or Persons Unknown" "The Little People" "Four O'Clock" "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" "The Trade-Ins" "The Gift" "The Dummy" "Young Man's Fancy" "I Sing the Body Electric" "Cavender Is Coming" "The Changing of the Guard"
Season 4	"In His Image" "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" "Valley of the Shadow" "He's Alive" "Mute" "Death Ship" "Jess-Belle" "Miniature" "Printer's Devil" "No Time Like the Past" "The Parallel" "I Dream of Genie" "The New Exhibit" "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" "On Thursday We Leave for Home" "Passage on the Lady Anne" "The Bard"
Season 5	"In Praise of Pip" "Steel" "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" "A Kind of a Stopwatch" "The Last Night of a Jockey" "Living Doll" "The Old Man in the Cave" "Uncle Simon" "Probe 7, Over and Out" "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" "Ring-a-Ding Girl" "You Drive" "The Long Morrow" "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" "Black Leather Jackets" "Night Call" "From Agnes—With Love" "Spur of the Moment" "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "Queen of the Nile" "What's in the Box" "The Masks" "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" "Sounds and Silences" "Caesar and Me" "The Jeopardy Room" "Stopover in a Quiet Town" "The Encounter" "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" "The Brain Center at Whipple's" "Come Wander with Me" "The Fear" "The Bewitchin' Pool"