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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!

The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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  1. Background image for In Praise of Pip
    7.4/10(2.5k 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.

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  2. Background image for Steel
    7.0/10(2.3k 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.

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    Director:Don Weis
  3. Background image for Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    9.0/10(6.0k votes)

    #3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    S5:E3

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

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  4. Background image for A Kind of a Stopwatch
    7.4/10(2.5k 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.

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    Director:John Rich
  5. Background image for The Last Night of a Jockey
    6.4/10(2.0k 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.

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  6. Background image for Living Doll
    8.7/10(4.1k 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!

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  8. Background image for The Old Man in the Cave
    7.6/10(2.5k 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.

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  9. Background image for Uncle Simon
    6.9/10(2.1k 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.

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    Director:Don Siegel
  10. Background image for Probe 7, Over and Out
    7.2/10(2.3k votes)

    #9 - Probe 7, Over and Out

    S5:E9

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

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    Director:Ted Post
  11. Background image for The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
    7.0/10(2.2k 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.

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    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
  12. Background image for A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
    7.0/10(1.9k 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.

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  13. Background image for Ninety Years Without Slumbering
    6.9/10(2.0k votes)

    #12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering

    S5:E12

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

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  14. Background image for Ring-a-Ding Girl
    7.7/10(2.4k 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.

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    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.
  15. Background image for You Drive
    7.5/10(2.2k 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.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.
  16. Background image for The Long Morrow
    7.5/10(2.3k votes)

    #15 - The Long Morrow

    S5:E15

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
  17. Background image for The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
    7.5/10(2.1k votes)

    #16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

    S5:E16

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

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  18. Background image for Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.1/10(3.0k 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.

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  19. Background image for Black Leather Jackets
    6.4/10(2.2k 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.

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  20. Background image for Night Call
    8.1/10(2.8k votes)

    #19 - Night Call

    S5:E19

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

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  21. Background image for From Agnes – With Love
    6.3/10(2.0k 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.

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  22. Background image for Spur of the Moment
    6.9/10(2.0k 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.

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  23. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    8.2/10(3.0k 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...

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    Director:Robert Enrico
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Queen of the Nile
    7.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #23 - Queen of the Nile

    S5:E23

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

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  25. Background image for What's in the Box
    7.1/10(2.1k 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.

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  26. Background image for The Masks
    8.6/10(3.6k 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.

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    Director:Ida Lupino

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 2457 votes. Directed by Joseph M. Newman and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 9/27/1963. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Steel".