The Twilight Zone, Season Five: 3 Classics and 3 Wasted Trips

And so we arrive at last to the fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone. As a refresher: I started these season reviews because, familiar as I’ve been with this landmark series, I’ve never owned it or experienced all the episodes in order in their entirety. Now I have, and it’s clear from this last batch of 36 episodes that the premise had started to run out of steam. Time travelers, dystopian futures, machines replacing humans, ill-fated voyages to outer space – viewers have seen them all before, and in most cases better than these variations.While I still enjoyed more than half of these episodes, it’s never been easier to select a top three because there were not as many close runners-up.The Three BestNightmare at 20,000 FeetOne of two no-brainer contenders for the best episode of season five, and one that would likely rank in the top five from the entire series. William Shatner plays a man still recovering from a nervous breakdown, who boards an airplane and is terrified when…