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.

The Twilight Zone (1959) Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - In Praise of Pip
• s05e02 - Steel
• s05e03 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
• s05e04 - A Kind of Stopwatch
• s05e05 - The Last Night of a Jockey
• s05e06 - Living Doll
• s05e07 - The Old Man in the Cave
• s05e08 - Uncle Simon
• s05e09 - Probe 7: Over & Out
• s05e10 - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
• s05e11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
• s05e12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
• s05e13 - Ring-A-Ding Girl
• s05e14 - You Drive
• s05e15 - The Long Morrow
• s05e16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
• s05e17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
• s05e18 - Black Leather Jackets
• s05e19 - Night Call
• s05e20 - From Agnes - With Love
• s05e21 - Spur of the Moment
• s05e22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• s05e23 - Queen of the Nile
• s05e24 - What's in the Box
• s05e25 - The Masks
• s05e26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
• s05e27 - Sounds and Silences
• s05e28 - Caesar and Me
• s05e29 - The Jeopardy Room
• s05e30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town
• s05e31 - The Encounter
• s05e32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
• s05e33 - The Brain Center at Whipple's
• s05e34 - Come Wander with Me
• s05e35 - The Fear
• s05e36 - The Bewitchin' Pool

The Twilight Zone (1959) Show Summary

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".