The Twilight Zone

The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 5

Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDrama
Network:CBS

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.
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  1. 9.0/10(5.9k votes)

    #1 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

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    S5:E3

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

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  2. 8.7/10(4.0k votes)

    #2 - Living Doll

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    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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  3. 8.6/10(3.5k votes)

    #3 - The Masks

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    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
  4. 8.3/10(2.9k votes)

    #4 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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    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:N/A
  5. 8.1/10(2.9k votes)

    #5 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

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    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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  6. 8.1/10(2.7k votes)

    #6 - Night Call

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    S5:E19

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

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  8. 8.1/10(2.8k votes)

    #7 - Stopover in a Quiet Town

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    S5:E30

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

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    Director:Ron Winston
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.
  9. 7.7/10(2.4k votes)

    #8 - Ring-a-Ding Girl

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    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.
  10. 7.6/10(2.4k votes)

    #9 - The Old Man in the Cave

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    S5:E7

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

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  11. 7.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #10 - You Drive

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    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.
  12. 7.5/10(2.3k votes)

    #11 - The Long Morrow

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    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
  13. 7.5/10(2.1k votes)

    #12 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

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    S5:E16

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

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  14. 7.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #13 - Queen of the Nile

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    S5:E23

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

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  15. 7.5/10(2.0k votes)

    #14 - The Jeopardy Room

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    S5:E29

    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.

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  16. 7.5/10(2.0k votes)

    #15 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves

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    S5:E32

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

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    Director:Ted Post
  17. 7.4/10(2.4k votes)

    #16 - In Praise of Pip

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    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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  18. 7.4/10(2.5k votes)

    #17 - A Kind of a Stopwatch

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    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
  19. 7.4/10(2.2k votes)

    #18 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black

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    S5:E26

    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.

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  20. 7.2/10(2.2k votes)

    #19 - Probe 7, Over and Out

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    S5:E9

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

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    Director:Ted Post
  21. 7.1/10(2.1k votes)

    #20 - What's in the Box

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    S5:E24

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

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  22. 7.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #21 - The Encounter

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    S5:E31

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

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  23. 7.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #22 - The Fear

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    S5:E35

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

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    Director:Ted Post
  24. 7.0/10(2.3k votes)

    #23 - Steel

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    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
  25. 7.0/10(2.2k votes)

    #24 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

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    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.
  26. 7.0/10(1.9k votes)

    #25 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

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    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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 5. It scored 9/10 based on 5906 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Richard Matheson, it aired on 10/11/1963. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Living Doll".