7.5/102,359 votes#1 - In Praise of Pip
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1963
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
7.0/102,199 votes#2 - Steel
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963
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
9.0/105,781 votes#3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Richard Matheson
7.4/102,396 votes#4 - 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.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Rod Serling
6.4/101,951 votes#5 - The Last Night of a Jockey
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1963
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
8.7/103,920 votes#6 - 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!
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: Charles Beaumont, Jerry Sohl
7.6/102,388 votes#7 - 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.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Rod Serling, Henry Slesar
6.9/102,036 votes#8 - Uncle Simon
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1963
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
7.2/102,165 votes#9 - 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.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Rod Serling
7.0/102,107 votes#10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1963
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Rod Serling
7.0/101,857 votes#11 - 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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Rod Serling
6.9/101,928 votes#12 - 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.
Director: Roger Kay
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.7/102,297 votes#13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1963
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.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
7.5/102,143 votes#14 - 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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
7.5/102,210 votes#15 - The Long Morrow
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1964
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Rod Serling
7.5/102,011 votes#16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1964
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Director: Don Siegel
Writer: Jerry McNeely, Henry Slesar
8.1/102,852 votes#17 - 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.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin
6.4/102,067 votes#18 - Black Leather Jackets
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1964
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
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
8.1/102,653 votes#19 - Night Call
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1964
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: Richard Matheson
6.3/101,941 votes#20 - From Agnes – With Love
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1964
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
6.9/101,959 votes#21 - Spur of the Moment
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1964
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
8.3/102,852 votes#22 - 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...
Director: Robert Enrico
Writer: N/A
7.5/102,107 votes#23 - Queen of the Nile
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1964
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont, Jerry Sohl
7.1/102,032 votes#24 - What's in the Box
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1964
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
8.6/103,457 votes#25 - The Masks
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1964
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
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!
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDrama
Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"In Praise of Pip" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 5. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2359 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".