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| The Twilight Zone Season 5 : |
| 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. |
| Episode 1 - [In Praise Of Pip] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bill Mumy | Bobby Diamond | Connie Gilchrist | Jack Klugman as Max Phillips | Director : Joseph M. Newman | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Sep. 27, 1963 |
| Episode 2 - [Steel] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lee Marvin | Joe Mantell as Jackie Rhoades | Writer : Richard Matheson | Director : Don Weis | |
| Air Date : Oct. 04, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Nightmare At 20000 Feet] |
| Details : No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing except a newly released mental patient. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Shatner as Bob Wilson | Nick Cravat as Gremlin (uncredited) | Ed Kemmer as Flight Engineer (as Edward Kemmer) | Christine White as Julia Wilson | Asa Maynor as Stewardess | Writer : Richard Matheson | Director : Richard Donner | |
| Air Date : Oct. 11, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [A Kind Of A Stopwatch] |
| Details : The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Roy Roberts | Doris Singleton | Richard Erdman | Herbie Faye | Dick Wessel | Sam Balter | Director : John Rich | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 18, 1963 |
| Episode 5 - [The Last Night Of A Jockey] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mickey Rooney | Director : Joseph M. Newman | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 25, 1963 |
| Episode 6 - [Living Doll] |
| Details : 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! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : June Foray | Telly Savalas | Writer : Jerry Sohl | Director : Richard C. Sarafian | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Nov. 01, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [The Old Man In The Cave] |
| Details : A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Anderson as Gabriel | James Coburn | John Marley as Sunnyvale Superintendant Cox | John Craven | Writer : Rod Serling | Writer : Henry Slesar | |
| Air Date : Nov. 08, 1963 |
| Episode 8 - [Uncle Simon] |
| Details : To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate a woman learns she must serve his latest invention which is endowed with his own persona. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Constance Ford | Cedric Hardwicke | Ian Wolfe | Director : Don Siegel | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Nov. 15, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Probe 7-Over And Out] |
| Details : The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Harold Gould | Richard Basehart | Antoinette Bower | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Ted Post | |
| Air Date : Nov. 29, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [The 7th Is Made Up Of Phantoms] |
| Details : A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Greg Morris | Robert Bray | Warren Oates as Jeep Driver | Randy Boone | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Dec. 06, 1963 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain] |
| Details : Trying to keep up with his younger wife Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ruta Lee | Walter Brooke | Patrick O'Neal | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Bernard Girard | |
| Air Date : Dec. 13, 1963 |
| Episode 12 - [Ninety Years Without Slumbering] |
| Details : An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Pickard | Dick Wilson as Jack | James T. Callahan | Ed Wynn as Sam Forstmann | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | |
| Air Date : Dec. 20, 1963 |
| Episode 13 - [Ring-A-Ding Girl] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vic Perrin as Martian | Bing Russell | Betty Lou Gerson as Cici | George Mitchell as Gas Station Man | Maggie McNamara | Hank Patterson as Mr. Gentry | David Macklin as Bud Powell | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Dec. 27, 1963 |
| Episode 14 - [You Drive] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Edward Andrews as Carling | Kevin Hagen as Captain James Webber | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Jan. 03, 1964 |
| Episode 15 - [The Long Morrow] |
| Details : Before leaving on a decades long mission astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mariette Hartley | Robert Lansing | George Macready | Edward Binns as Col. Bob Donlin | Director : Robert Florey | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1964 |
| Episode 16 - [The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross] |
| Details : A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Carsville | J. Pat O'Malley as Homburg | Gail Kobe | Douglass Dumbrille | Seymour Cassel | Don Gordon as Andy Marshak | Director : Don Siegel | Writer : Jerry McNeely | Writer : Henry Slesar | |
| Air Date : Jan. 17, 1964 |
| Episode 17 - [Number 12 Looks Just Like You] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Suzy Parker | Richard Long | Collin Wilcox Paxton | Director : Abner Biberman | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Jan. 24, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Black Leather Jackets] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shelley Fabares | Denver Pyle | Michael Forest | Irene Hervey | Director : Joseph M. Newman | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Jan. 31, 1964 |
| Episode 19 - [Night Call] |
| Details : An elderly wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gladys Cooper | Director : Jacques Tourneur | Writer : Richard Matheson | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [From Agnes – With Love] |
| Details : A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Wally Cox | Sue Randall as Nurse | Ralph Taeger | Raymond Bailey as Doctor | Don Keefer | Writer : Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Director : Richard Donner | |
| Air Date : Feb. 14, 1964 |
| Episode 21 - [Spur Of The Moment] |
| Details : After being chased on horseback by a terrifying unidentified figure in black Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Diana Hyland | Marsha Hunt | Robert Hogan | Philip Ober | Roger Davis | Writer : Richard Matheson | Director : Elliot Silverstein | |
| Air Date : Feb. 21, 1964 |
| Episode 22 - [An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge] |
| Details : 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... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Robert Enrico | |
| Air Date : Feb. 28, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 23 - [Queen Of The Nile] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Celia Lovsky | Ann Blyth | Frank Ferguson | Lee Philips | Writer : Jerry Sohl | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 06, 1964 |
| Episode 24 - [What's In The Box] |
| Details : A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Demarest | Sandra Gould | Joan Blondell | Sterling Holloway | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
| Air Date : Mar. 13, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 25 - [The Masks] |
| Details : A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Keith | Alan Sues | Virginia Gregg | Milton Selzer | Willis Bouchey | Brooke Hayward | Director : Ida Lupino | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Mar. 20, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 26 - [I AM The Night—color Me Black] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ivan Dixon as Reverend Anderson | Michael Constantine | Paul Fix | George Lindsey | Terry Becker | Elizabeth Harrower | Director : Abner Biberman | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Mar. 27, 1964 |
| Episode 27 - [Sounds And Silences] |
| Details : A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Penny Singleton | Michael Fox as Doctor | Francis De Sales | John McGiver | William Benedict | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Richard Donner | |
| Air Date : Apr. 03, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 28 - [Caesar And Me] |
| Details : A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stafford Repp as Mechanic | Morgan Brittany as Little Girl | Jackie Cooper | Director : Robert Butler | |
| Air Date : Apr. 10, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 29 - [The Jeopardy Room] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John van Dreelen | Martin Landau as Dan Hotaling | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Richard Donner | |
| Air Date : Apr. 17, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 30 - [Stopover In A Quiet Town] |
| Details : Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees animals even cars. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Barry Nelson | Nancy Malone | Director : Ron Winston | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Apr. 24, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 31 - [The Encounter] |
| Details : A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : George Takei | Neville Brand | Director : Robert Butler | |
| Air Date : May. 01, 1964 |
| Episode 32 - [Mr Garrity And The Graves] |
| Details : Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness Arizona proclaiming he can revive the dead. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : J. Pat O'Malley as Homburg | Stanley Adams | John Dehner as Captain Allenby | John Mitchum | Percy Helton | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Ted Post | |
| Air Date : May. 08, 1964 |
| Episode 33 - [The Brain Center At Whipple's] |
| Details : A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Thalmus Rasulala | Richard Deacon | Ted de Corsia as Marty Sall | Paul Newlan | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Richard Donner | |
| Air Date : May. 15, 1964 |
| Episode 34 - [Come Wander With Me] |
| Details : A singer searches for an authentic folk song. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hank Patterson as Old Man | Gary Crosby as Floyd Burney | Bonnie Beecher as Mary Rachel | Director : Richard Donner | Writer : Anthony Wilson | |
| Air Date : May. 22, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 35 - [The Fear] |
| Details : Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Mark Richman | Hazel Court | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Ted Post | |
| Air Date : May. 29, 1964 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 36 - [The Bewitchin' Pool] |
| Details : Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : June Foray | Harold Gould | Jeffrey Byron as Jeb Sharewood | Tod Andrews | Mary Badham | Director : Joseph M. Newman | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Jun. 19, 1964 |