“In Praise of Pip”
Season 5 – Episode 1
“I want to spend the rest of my life being with ya…and, Pip I promise ya…there’ll be no more bottles, no more con jobs, nothing….”
— House of Mirrors, Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P)
“Steel”
Season 5 – Episode 2
“Portrait of a losing side. Proof positive that you can’t outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else. That no matter what the future brings, man’s capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues as always, to out fight, out point and out live any changes made by his society.
For which three cheers and a unanimous decision, rendered from…the Twilight Zone.”
— Rod Serling
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
Season 5 – Episode 3
“Honey? Would you wake up, honey?!!”
Submitted by Twilight Zone Museum Patron, Ed C.
“A Kind of Stopwatch”
Season 5 – Episode 4
“It works. I push the button, I stop the watch, and I stop the world!”
“The Last Night of a Jockey”
Season 5 – Episode 5
“I’m too big. I’m too big! I’M TOO BIG! I CAN’T RIDE!!”
“Living Doll”
Season 5 – Episode 6
“My name is Talky Tina… and you’d better be nice to me!”
Submitted by Twilight Zone Museum Patron, Charlene R.
“The Old Man in the Cave”
Season 5 – Episode 7
“Please, all of you, listen! There’s no reason under the sun why this cave must be opened. Why must you see the Old Man? All you need to know is that he’s kept us alive, he’s let us survive!…”
“Goldsmith, We’ve SURVIVED for ten years – but we haven’t LIVED!”
“Jason, the Old Man didn’t drop the bomb, he didn’t kill off this earth, we did that to ourselves! All he’s done is to let us survive our mistake. All he’s done is to let us plant the seed again and let it grow.
All the compassion that’s left on the earth is in that cave.”
“Uncle Simon”
Season 5 – Episode 8
“Bar-ba-ra!… Bar-ba-ra, my dear, if you could prevail upon that Raggedy Ann carcass of yours to exert itself, I’d like a cup of hot choc-o-late. I’d like it in the English bone and China cup, If it’s not hot, I’ll throw it on the floor.”
“Alright, I’ll make some.”
“Speak up, you lint-headed clod! I couldn’t hear you! Make sure it’s hot!
What does it take to make you move, you bovine crab?!”
“I’ll fix it for you now…Uncle.”
“Probe 7 – Over and Out”
Season 5 – Episode 9
“Cook…”
“Yes, Cook, Adam Cook.”
“Norda, Eve.”
“Eve, this is our home now, this is Earth.”
“The Seventh is Made Up of Phantoms”
Season 5 – Episode 10
“Custer rode right into them and was slaughtered. 1876, that was the year.”
“Ah, c’mon now sarge, somebody planted this thing right here for a gag!
That canteen’s not eighty years old, Well, shoot, it’s practically new! Either that, or we had some…”
(WIND STARTS HOWLING)
“A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain”
Season 5 – Episode 11
“And you’ll perform the process together. As he grows older, you’ll be growing old. Now, there’s a little poetic justice, Flora, that you should be forced to drink from the same cup.”
“But, it isn’t fair, Raymond. It just isn’t fair! Everything, everything is on HIS side.”
“Well, you see, Flora, as you get older, see how wise you get?”
“Ninety Years Without Slumbering”
Season 5 – Episode 12
“It is better this way. It has to come sometime. And, I want it to come for me here.”
“Ring-a-Ding Girl”
Season 5 – Episode 13
“Bunny, come home…come home, Bunny!
Bunny, this is Hildy, come home!”
“You Drive”
Season 5 – Episode 14
HONK!!!
“I thought you said the car was in the repair shop.”
“It is!”
HONNNNK!!! HONNNNK!!!
“I thought you said the car was in the repair shop!!”
“Well, it was!”
“WHAT’S IT DOING HERE?!”
“The Long Morrow”
Season 5 – Episode 15
“Where you are, the way I am…it doesn’t make any difference.”
“Oh…it…makes…a difference, Sandy. It’s forty years difference, that’s too much difference.
You’re still beautiful, very beautiful. You go away now, Sandy. Please go, hmm?”
“The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross”
Season 5 – Episode 16
“I’m asking you for forgiveness, for compassion.”
“Compassion? Don’t you remember? I sold it to you yesterday.”
“Number Twelve Looks Just Like You”
Season 5 – Episode 17
“Father! Val! Look at me! What do you think?”
“You look beautiful, Marilyn, just beautiful.”
“And the nicest part of all, Val…I look just like you!”
“Black Leather Jackets”
Season 5 – Episode 18
“Please listen to me!”
“You may speak.”
“What we’re doing is wrong. We should save these creatures, not exterminate them. It’s true they murder and hurt one another and they’re subject to unreasonable hate and prejudice, but these are only the brutes and you find them in any race. Most of these people have the capacity for love, I know it! There’s more of love here than hate. There’s no need to kill them!”
“Our research disproves that.”
“Night Call”
Season 5 – Episode 19
“Brian? Brian, are you there? Brian, if you’re there, speak to me. It’s Elva. ELVA! Please speak to me, it’s Elva! Please say som…”
“You said, ‘Leave you alone’. I always do what you say.”
“But Brian, I didn’t know it was you! Brian, please don’t leave me, please speak to me!”
“From Agnes – With Love”
Season 5 – Episode 20
(Computer Agnes: Beep! Boop! Beep! Boop! Beep! Boop!)
“Stop speaking in riddles!”
(Computer Agnes flashes: ‘I LOVE YOU’)
“You mean you were jealous of Milly? You wanted me all to yourself? That’s impossible! I’m going crazy, haha!…You’re just a machine! Just a bunch of grids, computer circuits! You’re just a fancy, automatic tape recorder – you can’t love or hate!”
(Computer Agnes flashes: ‘CAN’T I…?’)
“Spur of the Moment”
Season 5 – Episode 21
“Bizarre, isn’t it? I keep seeing her again and again. Keep seeing myself again and again…that day, that ONE PARTICULAR day.
You, know the expression, ‘Go chase yourself’… well that’s what I’ve been doing, chasing myself. You remember what Robert said to me that day? ‘Maybe it’s a warning”, he said. I thought he was joking, well it was a warning. I was warning myself not to marry the wrong man. But I married him anyway, didn’t I?!”
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Season 5 – Episode 22
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, in two forms: as it was dreamed, and as it was lived and died. This is the stuff of fantasy, the thread of imagination – the ingredients of the Twilight Zone.”
– Rod Serling
“Queen of the Nile”
Season 5 – Episode 23
“What is that?”
“It’s a rare Egyptian scarab. The secret of eternity.”
“Where’d you get it?”
“From the Pharoahs who understood its power.”
“The Pharoahs?!“
“I told you, Mr. Herrick…I was once Queen of the Nile (as Mr. Herrick slowly dies and turns to mummified dust).”
“What’s in the Box”
Season 5 – Episode 24
“Whaddya see, Joe? A burlesque show? Fan dancers from Yonkers? Hahahahaaaa!
Did ya see ’em, Joe?!
YONKERS! YONKERS! YONKERS!
HAHAHA HAHAHA HAAAAAH!!”
“I’LL KILL YA, PHYLLIS!!!”
“The Masks”
Season 5 – Episode 25
“OHHHH! OHHH!”
“What’s the matter?! What’s the matter with you all?”
“Ah…AH…No…”
“I Am the Night – Color Me Black”
Season 5 – Episode 26
“C’mon, let’s get it over with!”
“YEAHHH!! YEAHHH!!!! YEAHHH!!” (mob yelling)
“I promise you, I will please you all, believe me! I’ll choke and suffer and dance…oh, you’ll get your money’s worth, believe me! BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I WON’T GIVE YOU, YOU MUCKERS! I WON’T GIVE YOU THE SATISFACTION OF SAYING THAT I’M SORRY!! YEAH! YEAH-YEAH!!!”
“Sounds and Silences”
Season 5 – Episode 27
“Louder, LOUDER! MAKE MORE NOISE! LET’S HEAR IT!! C’MON, LET’S HEAR IT!! LOUDER! LOUUUUUUDDDDERRRR!!”
“When last heard from, Mr. Roswell G. Flemington was in a sanitarium pleading with the medical staff to make some noise. They, of course, believe the case to be a rather tragic aberration – a man’s mind becoming unhinged. And for this they’ll give him pills, therapy, and rest. Little do they realize that all Mr. Flemington is suffering from is a case of poetic justice. Tonight’s tale of sounds and silences from the Twilight Zone.”
– Rod Serling
“Caesar and Me”
Season 5 – Episode 28
“You’re a hip little kid, I like you. I wanna ask you something…you’re not happy here living with your crummy aunt, are you?”
“That’s a stupid question.”
“You’d probably like to run away from this flea trap, wouldn’t ya?”
“I sure would.”
“Okay, it’s you and me, kid. We’re a team. I know where he’s got the money hidden. We’ll go to New York, I’ll show you the bright lights.”
“What about my aunt?”
“Honey, you still got those poison darts?”
“The Jeopardy Room”
Season 5 – Episode 29
“RINNNG! RINNNG! RINNNGGG!!”
“Stopover in a Quiet Town”
Season 5 – Episode 30
“Hee hee!”
“Be careful with your pets, dear. Daddy brought them all the way from Earth.”
“Ohh, can’t I play with them, Mommy?”
“After lunch, dear. Right now, put them back.”
“The Encounter”
Season 5 – Episode 31
“My father was a civilian…”
“Yeah? Doin’ what?”
“He was foreman of a construction gang. He was a war hero. He was on the docks when they came…that Sunday morning. He was there when the first wave of bombers came over…standing there, watching men of his own race destroy what he built with his own hands.”
“Mr. Garrity and the Graves”
Season 5 – Episode 32
“I can perceive immediately that you are made of sterner stuff, Sheriff. I haven’t seen you click in your boots just because Lightning Peterson will be one of the departed returning this night.”
“Lightning Peterson?!”
“You killed him once in an honest showdown, and you can do it again.”
“You mean you’re gonna resurrect that gunman?”
“It will give you a marvelous opportunity to dispel those ugly rumors I heard that you actually shot Peterson in the back, late at night, when he was alone and unarmed, and you had six deputies alongside of you…”
“The Brain Center at Whipple’s”
Season 5 – Episode 33
“You see…it took…more…than YOU to beat me…it…took..a man…”
“Come Wander With Me”
Season 5 – Episode 34
“You killed Billy Rayford, bespoke unto me, struck him down in his anger, ‘neath an old willow tree!…(tape recorder singing folk song by itself)”
“The Fear”
Season 5 – Episode 35
“Let’s see the source of our nightmare…”
“Great Leader, Great Leader, this is Earth Explorer One. Must report failure. Repeat – must report failure. Entire operation ended by earth men’s failure to be frightened. Request permission to depart earth. Oh please, Great Leader, let us depart before they crush us!”
“The Bewitchin’ Pool”
Season 5 – Episode 36
