The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone season 5
Every episode of The Twilight Zone season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone season 5!
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
#1 - Living Doll
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1963
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!
#2 - The Masks
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1964
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.
#3 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1964
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.
#4 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1964
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.
#5 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/8/1964
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
#6 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1964
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.
#7 - Night Call
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1964
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.
#8 - Stopover in a Quiet Town
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/24/1964
Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals and even cars.
#9 - Ring-A-Ding Girl
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1963
Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic and tries to get the chairman of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. Will she be able to help them when they need her most?
#10 - The Encounter
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1964
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
#11 - The Fear
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/29/1964
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
#12 - The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/17/1964
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.
#13 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
Mr. Wilson believes he sees a gremlin on the wing of his commercial aircraft.
#14 - Steel
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963
Boxing robot "Battling Maxo" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place.
#15 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1964
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
#16 - Queen of the Nile
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1964
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.
#17 - Uncle Simon
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1963
Caregiver Barbara Polk receives a surprise after her uncle's death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot.
#18 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1963
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
#19 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1963
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
#20 - A Kind of a Stopwatch
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1963
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
#21 - The Old Man in the Cave
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1963
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
#22 - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1963
Three National Guardsmen explore the site of Custer's Last Stand.
#23 - The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1964
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
#24 - You Drive
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1964
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.
#25 - Probe 7, Over and Out
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1963
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.