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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 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    9.0/10(6.0k votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Living Doll
    8.7/10(4.0k votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for The Masks
    8.6/10(3.6k votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    8.3/10(2.9k votes)

    #4 - 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:N/A
  5. Background image for Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.1/10(2.9k votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Night Call
    8.1/10(2.7k votes)

    #6 - Night Call

    S5:E19

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

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  8. Background image for Stopover in a Quiet Town
    8.1/10(2.8k votes)

    #7 - Stopover in a Quiet Town

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

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for You Drive
    7.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #10 - 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.
  12. Background image for The Long Morrow
    7.5/10(2.3k votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
    7.5/10(2.1k votes)

    #12 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

    S5:E16

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

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  14. Background image for Queen of the Nile
    7.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Jeopardy Room
    7.5/10(2.0k votes)

    #14 - The Jeopardy Room

    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. Background image for Mr. Garrity and the Graves
    7.5/10(2.0k votes)

    #15 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves

    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. Background image for In Praise of Pip
    7.4/10(2.4k votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for A Kind of a Stopwatch
    7.4/10(2.5k votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for I Am the Night - Color Me Black
    7.4/10(2.2k votes)

    #18 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black

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

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for What's in the Box
    7.1/10(2.1k votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for The Encounter
    7.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #21 - The Encounter

    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. Background image for The Fear
    7.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #22 - The Fear

    S5:E35

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

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    Director:Ted Post
  24. Background image for Steel
    7.0/10(2.3k votes)

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
    7.0/10(2.2k votes)

    #24 - 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.
  26. Background image for A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
    7.0/10(1.9k votes)

    #25 - 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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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 5959 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".