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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    9.0/10(6495 votes)

    S5:E3

    A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  2. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 6 - Living Doll
    8.7/10(4425 votes)

    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!

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian
    Writers:Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont

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  3. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 25 - The Masks
    8.5/10(3918 votes)

    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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  4. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    8.2/10(3232 votes)

    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...

    Director:Robert Enrico
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.1/10(3239 votes)

    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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writers:Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin

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  6. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 19 - Night Call
    8.1/10(3015 votes)

    S5:E19

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

    Director:Jacques Tourneur
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  7. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town
    8.1/10(3078 votes)

    S5:E30

    The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.

    Director:Ron Winston
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  8. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 13 - Ring-a-Ding Girl
    7.7/10(2623 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  9. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 7 - The Old Man in the Cave
    7.6/10(2714 votes)

    S5:E7

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

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Henry Slesar, Rod Serling

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  10. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 14 - You Drive
    7.5/10(2444 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  11. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 15 - The Long Morrow
    7.5/10(2508 votes)

    S5:E15

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

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  12. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 23 - Queen of the Nile
    7.5/10(2410 votes)

    S5:E23

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

    Director:John Brahm
    Writers:Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont

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  13. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
    7.5/10(2186 votes)

    S5:E32

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

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  14. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 1 - In Praise of Pip
    7.4/10(2677 votes)

    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.

    Director:Joseph M. Newman
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  15. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 4 - A Kind of a Stopwatch
    7.4/10(2712 votes)

    S5:E4

    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

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  16. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
    7.4/10(2265 votes)

    S5:E16

    A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

    Director:Don Siegel
    Writers:Jerry McNeely, Henry Slesar

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  17. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
    7.4/10(2466 votes)

    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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  18. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 29 - The Jeopardy Room
    7.4/10(2218 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  19. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 9 - Probe 7, Over and Out
    7.2/10(2476 votes)

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  20. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 24 - What's in the Box
    7.1/10(2308 votes)

    S5:E24

    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

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  21. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 31 - The Encounter
    7.1/10(2214 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Martin Goldsmith

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  22. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 35 - The Fear
    7.1/10(2255 votes)

    S5:E35

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

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  23. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 10 - The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
    7.0/10(2393 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  24. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
    7.0/10(2130 votes)

    S5:E11

    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

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  25. The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 2 - Steel
    6.9/10(2489 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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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 6495 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".