Original Twilight Zone Episode Guide

Season Five

1. In Praise of Pip

Airdate: 27 Sep 1963
Main Cast: Jack Klugman, Bobby Diamond, Billy Mumy
Writer: Rod Serling

Bookie, Max Phillips, finds out that his son is dying in Vietnam. Feeling he could have been a better father, he returns some money to a punter and gets wounded by a boss's hitman. Reeling from his injuries, he enters an amusement park and meets a young version of his son.

2. Steel

Airdate: 4 Oct 1963
Main Cast: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell
Writer: Richard Matheson

Prizefighting has been abolished. All boxing is now waged by robots. Former heavyweight boxer, Steel Kelly, finds that his robot, "Battling Maxo", is damaged prior to a fight. He decides to disguise himself as a robot and enter the ring in its place.

3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Airdate: 11 Oct 1963
Main Cast: William Shatner
Writer: Richard Matheson

Mr. Robert Wilson has spent the last six months in a sanitarium recovering from a nervous breakdown. Flying home, his nerves are about to be shattered once more when he believes he can see a creature on the wing destroying the engine.

4. A Kind of Stopwatch

Airdate: 18 Oct 1963
Main Cast: Richard Erdman
Writer: Rod Serling

Braggart Patrick Mc Nulty befriends a man called Potts in local bar. Potts gives him a stopwatch that can halt time at the press of a button. He decides to use it to rob a bank.

5. The Last Night of a Jockey

Airdate: 25 Oct 1963
Main Cast: Mickey Rooney
Writer: Rod Serling

A jockey has been banned from horse racing for doping horses. Conversing with his alter-ego in his room, he comes to the conclusion that all he ever wanted was to be respected. He wishes he was taller. Soon his wish is granted.

6. Living Doll

Airdate: 1 Nov 1963
Main Cast: Telly Savalas
Writer: Charles Beaumont/Jerry Sohl

When his wife buys his step-daughter a doll, Erich streator takes an instant dislike to it. After the doll talks back to him and tells him that she dislikes him, he tries to get rid of it.

7. The Old Man in the Cave

Airdate: 8 Nov 1963
Main Cast: James Coburn
Writer: Rod Serling

A group of survivors from a nuclear war are being guided by an "old man in a cave". Just who or what is guiding them?

8. Uncle Simon

Airdate: 15 Nov 1963
Main Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford
Writer: Rod Serling

Uncle Simon falls to his death after trying to strike Barbara with his cane. His will stipulates that she must look after his newest invention - a robot. Unfortunately the robot shares many of uncle Simon's apalling characteristics.

9. Probe 7, Over and Out

Airdate: 29 Nov 1963
Main Cast: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower
Writer: Rod Serling

Adam Cook has landed on a remote planet and has just learned that his home planet has been destroyed. He spots a footprint, that is not his own.