The Twilight Zone: Season 5
Image (1963)
Science Fiction, Thriller
In Collection
#1422
0*
Seen ItYes
014381642650
IMDB   9.0
1080 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1, Region A   NR (Not Rated)
Rod Serling
Merritt Bohn Nolan
Robert Diamond Pvt. Pip
Richard Erdman Patrick Thomas McNulty
Connie Gilchrist Mrs. Feeny
Chuck Hicks Maynard Flash
Edward Kemmer Flight Engineer
Jack Klugman Max Phillips
Frank London Maxwell
Joe Mantell Pole
Lee Marvin Steel Kelly
Asa Maynor Betty Crosby
Bill Mumy Young Pip
William Shatner Bob Wilson
Christine White Julia Wilson
Director
Joseph M. Newman
Producer Bert Granet
Writer Rod Serling
Cinematography Jean Boffety
Robert Pittack
Musician Bernard Herrmann
Jeff Alexander

The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/27/1963  1.  In Praise of Pip
An alcoholic bookie 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 
Guest starring:  Jack KlugmanBill Mumy, Bobby Diamond, Kreg Martin, Gerald Gordon, Russell Horton, Stuart Nisbet, Ross Elliott, John Launer,  Connie Gilchrist
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/4/1963  2.  Steel
Boxing robot ""Battling Maxo"" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place.
Director:  Don Weis  Writer:  Richard Matheson 
Guest starring:  Lee Marvin, Tipp McClure, Chuck Hicks,  Joe Mantell, Merritt Bohn, Frank London, Larry Barton
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/11/1963  3.  Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Mr. Wilson believes he sees a gremlin on the wing of his commercial aircraft.
Director:  Richard Donner  Writer:  Richard Matheson 
Guest starring:  William Shatner, Christine White, Nick Cravat, Ed Kemmer,  Asa Maynor
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/18/1963  4.  A Kind of a Stopwatch
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Director:  John Rich  / Michael D. Rosenthal  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Richard Erdman, Leon Belasco, Roy Roberts, Herbie Faye, Doris Singleton, Ray Kellogg, Sam Balter, Dick Wessel, Ken Drake
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/25/1963  5.  The Last Night of a Jockey
Mickey Rooney delivers a tour de force solo performance in the Twilight Zone playlet "The Last Night of a Jockey." Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady (Rooney) boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego (also Rooney), but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Director:  Joseph M. Newman  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Mickey Rooney
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/1/1963  6.  Living Doll
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  / Charles Beaumont  Writer:  Jerry Sohl 
Guest starring:  Telly Savalas, Mary La Roche, Tracy Stratford,  June Foray
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/8/1963  7.  The Old Man in the Cave
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Guest starring:  John AndersonJames Coburn, John Marley, Josie Lloyd, Frank Watkins, Lenny Geer, Natalie Masters, Don Wilbanks
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/15/1963  8.  Uncle Simon
Uncle Simon tries to strike Barbara with his cane. She grabs it and he falls down the stairs to his death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot. The robot begins to take on Uncle Simon's traits. Barbara finally pushes it down the stairs, but that only gives it a limp identical to Uncle Simon's. She finally realizes that she will never be rid of Uncle Simon.
Director:  Don Siegel  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford,  Ian Wolfe, John McLiam, Dion Hansen
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/29/1963  9.  Probe 7 - Over and Out
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Director:  Ted Post  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower,  Barton HeymanHarold Gould
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/6/1963  10.  The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
Three National Guardsmen explore the site of Custer's Last Stand.
Director:  Alan Crosland Jr.  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Ron Foster, Randy Boone,  Warren Oates, Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Wayne Mallory, Robert Bray, Lew Brown, Jacque Shelton
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/13/1963  11.  A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Director:  Bernard Girard  / Lou Holz  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Patrick O'Neal, Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/20/1963  12.  Ninety Years Without Slumbering
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Director:  Roger Kay  / George Clayton Johnson  Writer:  Richard DeRoy 
Guest starring:  Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, James Callahan, William Sargent, Carol Byron, Dick Wilson, Chuck Hicks, John Pickard
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/27/1963  13.  Ring-A-Ding Girl
Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic. She tries to get the chairman of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. She then plans a one-woman show at the auditorium. Before the show, Bunny disappears. Later, a jet airliner crashes onto the picnic grounds. Thanks to Bunny, almost everyone is at the auditorium instead of the picnic grounds. They later find that Bunny was a passenger on the plane.
Director:  Alan Crosland Jr.  Writer:  Earl Hamner Jr. 
Guest starring:  Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, Bing Russell, Hank Patterson, Vic Perrin, George Mitchell, Lou Gerson, Bill Hickman,  Betty Lou Gerson
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/3/1964  14.  You Drive
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. 
Guest starring:  Edward Andrews, Hellena Westcott, Kevin Hagen, John Hanek, Totty Ames
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/10/1964  15.  The Long Morrow
Stansfield, an astronaut, is sent to a planetary system 141 light-years from Earth. The trip will take 20 years each way. To save him the ordeal of forty years of loneliness, he is to be placed in (newly-developed) suspended animation. Before leaving, he meets and becomes enchanted by his colleague Sandra Horn in just one evening, but by the time he returned, Horn would be 40 years older and Stansfield would still be young because of the suspended animation.
Director:  Robert Florey  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley,  George Macready, Edward Binns, William Swan, Donald Spruance
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/17/1964  16.  The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Director:  Don Siegel  / Henry Slesar  Writer:  Jerry McNeely 
Guest starring:  Don Gordon, Gail Kobe,  Vaughn Taylor, Kathleen O'Malley,  Seymour Cassel, Ted Jacques, Doug Lambert, Douglas Dumbrille,  J. Pat O'Malley
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/24/1964  17.  Number 12 Looks Just Like You
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 
Guest starring:  Collin Wilcox, Suzy Parker, Richard Long, Pam Austin
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/31/1964  18.  Black Leather Jackets
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. 
Guest starring:  Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Tom Gilleran, Denver Pyle, Wayne Heffley, Michael Conrad, Irene Hervey
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/7/1964  19.  Night Call
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.
Director:  Jacques Tourneur  Writer:  Richard Matheson 
Guest starring:  Gladys Cooper
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/14/1964  20.  From Agnes - With Love
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 
Guest starring:  Wally Cox, Sue Randall, Ralph Taeger, Nan Peterson, Byran Kane, Don Keefer, Raymond Bailey
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/21/1964  21.  Spur of the Moment
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 
Guest starring:  Diana Hyland, Robert Hogan, Roger Davis,  Philip Ober, Marsha Hunt, Jack Raine
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/28/1964  22.  An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. He dodges bullets and heads off for home. He finally reaches it, but as his wife hugs him he stiffens. Suddenly he is back at the bridge, hanging from a rope.
Director:  Robert Enrico  / Ambrose Bierce  Writer:  Robert Enrico 
Guest starring:  Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen, Stephane Fey, Jean-Francois Zeller, Pierre Danny, Louis Adelin
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/6/1964  23.  Queen of the Nile
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
Director:  Charles Beaumont  /  John Brahm  Writer:  Jerry Sohl 
Guest starring:  Lee Phillips, Ann Blyth, Celia Lovsky, Frank Ferguson, James Tyler, Ruth Phillips
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/13/1964  24.  What's in the Box
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  Martin M. Goldsmith 
Guest starring:  William Demarest, Joan Blondell,  Sterling Holloway, Herbert Lytton, Sandra Gould, Howard Wright, John L. Sullivan, Ted Christy, Ron Stokes, Douglas Bank, Tony Miller
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/20/1964  25.  The Masks
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.
Director:  Ida Lupino  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Robert Keith, Virginia Gregg, Alan Sues, Milton Selzer, Brooke Hayward, Willis Bouchey, Bill Walker
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/27/1964  26.  I Am the Night - Color Me Black
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 
Guest starring:  Michael Constantine, Paul Fix,  George Lindsey, Terry Becker, Ivan Dixon, Eve McVeagh, Douglas Bank, Ward Wood, Elizabeth Harrower
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/3/1964  27.  Sounds and Silences
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Director:  Richard Donner  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  John McGiver, Penny Singleton, William Benedict, Michael Fox, Francis Defales, Renee Aubry
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/10/1964  28.  Caesar and Me
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Director:  Robert Butler  Writer:  A. T. Strassfield 
Guest starring:  Jackie Cooper, Sarah Selby, Morgan Brittany,  Olan Soule, Stafford Repp, Sidney Marion, Don Gazzaniga, Ken Konopka
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/17/1964  29.  The Jeopardy Room
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.
Director:  Richard Donner  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Robert Kelljan
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/24/1964  30.  Stopover in a Quiet Town
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. 
Guest starring:  Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone, Karen Norris, Denise Lynn
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/1/1964  31.  The Encounter
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 M. Goldsmith 
Guest starring:  Neville Brand,  George Takei
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/8/1964  32.  Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Director:  Ted Post  / Mike Korologos  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  John Cliff, Kate Murtagh, John Dehner,  J. Pat O'Malley, John Mitchum, Patrick O'Moore, Norman Leavitt, Percy Helton, Stanley Adams
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/15/1964  33.  The Brain Center at Whipple's
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Director:  Richard Donner  Writer:  Rod Serling 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/22/1964  34.  Come Wander with Me
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Director:  Richard Donner  Writer:  Anthony Wilson 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/29/1964  35.  The Fear
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Director:  Ted Post  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Peter Mark Richman, Hazel Court
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    6/19/1964  36.  The Bewitchin' Pool
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
Director:  Joseph M. Newman  Writer:  Earl Hamner Jr. 
Guest starring:  Kim Hector, Dee Hartford, Mary Badham, Tim Stafford, Georgia Simmons,  Harold Gould, Tod Andrews
Edition Details
Edition Season 5
Series The Twilight Zone
Distributor Image Entertainment
Release Date 8/30/2011
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Mono [English]
PCM [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 5

Features
Disc 01 Excerpts from Rod Serling's Sherwood Oaks Experimental College Lecture Alfred Hitchcock Promo Audio Commentaries by: · Bill Mumy (In Praise of Pip) · June Foray (Living Doll) · Mickey Rooney (The Last Night of a Jockey) · Mariette Hartley (The Long Morrow) · Marc Scott Zicree (Number 12 Looks Just Like You) · Alan Sues (The Masks) · Martin Landau (The Jeopardy Room) Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Van Cleave and more Video Interviews with: Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Earl Hamner, Jr,. Bill Mumy, June Foray, Carolyn Kearney, Michael Forest, Nancy Malone and Terry Becker Highlights from the Museum of Television and Radio Seminar Conversations with Rod Serling Rare George Clayton Johnson Home Movies Rod Serling Promos for "Next Week's" Show Twilight Zone Season 5 Billboards Twilight Zone Season 5 Photo Gallery And More!