The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5

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

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

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

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Richard Matheson

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

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

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

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

Writer: Rod Serling, Henry Slesar

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

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

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

Director: Roger Kay

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

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.

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

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

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.

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

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Writer: Richard Matheson

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

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

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

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont, Jerry Sohl

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 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