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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5

Every episode of The Twilight Zone Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 1 - In Praise of Pip
    7.4/10(2567 votes)

    #1 - In Praise of Pip

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Joseph M. Newman
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  2. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 2 - Steel
    6.9/10(2399 votes)

    #2 - Steel

    S5:E2

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  3. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    9.0/10(6255 votes)

    #3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    S5:E3

    A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  4. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch
    7.4/10(2604 votes)

    #4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch

    S5:E4

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

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  5. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 5 - The Last Night of a Jockey
    6.3/10(2126 votes)

    #5 - The Last Night of a Jockey

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Joseph M. Newman
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  6. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 6 - Living Doll
    8.7/10(4244 votes)

    #6 - Living Doll

    S5:E6

    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!

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian
    Writers:Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont

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  7. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 7 - The Old Man in the Cave
    7.6/10(2617 votes)

    #7 - The Old Man in the Cave

    S5:E7

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

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Rod Serling, Henry Slesar

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  8. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 8 - Uncle Simon
    6.9/10(2220 votes)

    #8 - Uncle Simon

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Don Siegel
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  9. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 9 - Probe 7, Over and Out
    7.2/10(2376 votes)

    #9 - Probe 7, Over and Out

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  10. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
    7.0/10(2292 votes)

    #10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

    S5:E10

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

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  11. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
    7.0/10(2028 votes)

    #11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

    S5:E11

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

    Director:Bernard Girard
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  12. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
    6.9/10(2117 votes)

    #12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

    S5:E12

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

    Director:Roger Kay
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  13. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl
    7.7/10(2523 votes)

    #13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl

    S5:E13

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  14. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 14 - You Drive
    7.5/10(2340 votes)

    #14 - You Drive

    S5:E14

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  15. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 15 - The Long Morrow
    7.5/10(2411 votes)

    #15 - The Long Morrow

    S5:E15

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

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  16. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
    7.5/10(2183 votes)

    #16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

    S5:E16

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

    Director:Don Siegel
    Writers:Henry Slesar, Jerry McNeely

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  17. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.1/10(3104 votes)

    #17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

    S5:E17

    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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writers:Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin

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  18. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 18 - Black Leather Jackets
    6.4/10(2255 votes)

    #18 - Black Leather Jackets

    S5:E18

    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.

    Director:Joseph M. Newman
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  19. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 19 - Night Call
    8.1/10(2901 votes)

    #19 - Night Call

    S5:E19

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

    Director:Jacques Tourneur
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  20. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 20 - From Agnes – With Love
    6.3/10(2112 votes)

    #20 - From Agnes – With Love

    S5:E20

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

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Bernard C. Schoenfeld

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  21. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 21 - Spur of the Moment
    6.9/10(2130 votes)

    #21 - Spur of the Moment

    S5:E21

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

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  22. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    8.2/10(3088 votes)

    #22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    S5:E22

    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...

    Director:Robert Enrico
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 23 - Queen of the Nile
    7.5/10(2300 votes)

    #23 - Queen of the Nile

    S5:E23

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

    Director:John Brahm
    Writers:Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont

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  24. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 24 - What's in the Box
    7.1/10(2215 votes)

    #24 - What's in the Box

    S5:E24

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

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Martin Goldsmith

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  25. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 25 - The Masks
    8.6/10(3756 votes)

    #25 - The Masks

    S5:E25

    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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Rod Serling

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"In Praise of Pip" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 5. It scored 7.4/10 based on 2567 votes. Directed by Joseph M. Newman and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 9/27/1963. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Steel".