The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5

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

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Richard Matheson

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Writer: Richard Matheson

Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars.

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

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.

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

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.

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

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Rod Serling

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

Director: Don Siegel

Writer: Jerry McNeely, Henry Slesar

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont, Jerry Sohl

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.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Rod Serling

Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling

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

A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Martin Goldsmith

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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