Episode 25
The Masks
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.
The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964. It featured the same intro as the fourth season, but reverted to the original half-hour format.
October 4, 1963
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.
Episode 3
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
October 11, 1963
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Episode 4
A Kind of a Stopwatch
October 18, 1963
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Episode 5
The Last Night of a Jockey
October 25, 1963
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Episode 6
Living Doll
November 1, 1963
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!
Episode 7
The Old Man in the Cave
November 8, 1963
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Episode 8
Uncle Simon
November 15, 1963
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
Episode 9
Probe 7, Over and Out
November 29, 1963
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Episode 10
The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
December 6, 1963
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Episode 11
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
December 13, 1963
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Episode 12
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
December 20, 1963
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Episode 13
Ring-a-Ding Girl
December 27, 1963
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.
Episode 14
You Drive
January 3, 1964
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.
Episode 15
The Long Morrow
January 10, 1964
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Episode 16
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
January 17, 1964
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Episode 17
Number 12 Looks Just Like You
January 24, 1964
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.
Episode 18
Black Leather Jackets
January 31, 1964
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.
Episode 19
Night Call
February 7, 1964
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Episode 20
From Agnes – With Love
February 14, 1964
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Episode 21
Spur of the Moment
February 21, 1964
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
Episode 22
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
February 28, 1964
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...
Episode 23
Queen of the Nile
March 6, 1964
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Episode 24
What's in the Box
March 13, 1964
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Episode 25
The Masks
March 20, 1964
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.
Episode 26
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
March 27, 1964
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.
Episode 28
Caesar and Me
April 10, 1964
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Episode 29
The Jeopardy Room
April 17, 1964
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.
Episode 30
Stopover in a Quiet Town
April 24, 1964
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
Episode 31
The Encounter
May 1, 1964
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Episode 32
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
May 8, 1964
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Episode 33
The Brain Center at Whipple's
May 15, 1964
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Episode 35
The Fear
May 29, 1964
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Episode 36
The Bewitchin' Pool
June 19, 1964
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
