The Fifth Dimension
Brace yourself as you approach that signpost up ahead! On The Fifth Dimension, hosts Richard Arnold and Trent Urness bring you analysis of the best and worst of the original Rod Serling series "The Twilight Zone". With each edition, we'll talk about the themes and trivial details of select episodes from the series' five-year run. This is the podcast that lies between the pit of your fears and the summit of your knowledge: Welcome to The Fifth Dimension!

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It's the very LAST EPISODE The Fifth Dimension! This time, we're taking a dip in the deep end with “The Bewitchin' Pool"! How far will children go to escape the emotional horrors of the adult world? Are wealthy people even capable of love? Is there really a fantasy world without child labor laws? Get all the answers one last time... on The Fifth Dimension!
 
Thanks so much, dear listeners, for this past year of podcast memories! Trent and Richard will return with future podcasts already in the works.
 
STAY SPOOKY!
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On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're cleaning out the attic as we discuss “The Encounter"! Can the relics of history revive conflicts of the past? Can soldiers trained to be killing machines ever recover to live in peacetime society? What in the name of God is even happening in this episode? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we're on a train back to Centerville as we discuss “Stopover in a Quiet Town"! Can being a fish out of water drive a person mad? Can a marriage survive a trip to Hell? Is this the ultimate clash of Big City naivete and small-town creepiness? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:51am EDT

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're waiting for that inheritance check to clear while discussing “The Masks"! Are curses real? How far would someone go to teach their family a lesson?  Are hypochondria and vanity really such terrible crimes? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 7:51am EDT

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we're debugging our subroutines as we discuss “From Agnes With Love"! Can a machine learn to love? Or even display jealousy? Is there anything even remotely funny about an irrational female computer? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're moving in next door as we discuss “Black Leather Jackets"! Could terrorists be lurking among us? Do rebels and outcasts deserve to be shunned by mainstream society? Is this episode delivering all of the wrong moral lessons, in massive doses? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:48am EDT

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we're raising a glass of Instant Smile as we discuss “Number 12 Looks Just Like You"! Is the struggle for individuality the process that makes us human? Could this be a cautionary tale about the danger of pursuing social equality? Is humanity doomed to live out a future full of capes and jumpsuits? Get all the answers on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:48am EDT

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're crash-landing into “Probe 7, Over and Out"! Is all of humankind inherently violent? Are we doomed to repeat our mistakes forever, even as we explore new worlds? Is this ending the most overused twist in all of human history? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 11:06am EDT

This week on The Fifth Dimension, the podcast is coming from inside the house as we discuss “Living Doll"! Are children’s toys the creepiest objects imaginable? Could a man’s raging insecurity about siring offspring manifest itself in the form of a murderous doll? Did the Twilight Zone invent the evil stepfather character? Get all the answers on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 10:17am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, time will stand still while discuss "A Kind of Stopwatch"! Is it still important to be careful what we wish for, even with things we didn't want in the first place? Is a lifetime of isolation the most terrifying punishment imaginable? Is The Twilight Zone just a death trap for annoying loudmouths? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

On this edition of The Fifth Dimension, we're checking our bags as we discuss "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"! Is being alone in your fear of danger more terrifying than the danger itself? Can mental breakdown make a person more open to seeing the impossible? Have the increased security restrictions on modern passenger planes finally solved the gremlin problem? Get all the answers on this week's episode of The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we're shopping for the perfect body parts as we discuss “I Sing the Body Electric”! Can machines possibly replace humans as loving companions? Can the stable presence of an immortal robot heal the heart of a motherless child? What if someone told you that your eyes looked like marbles? Like, several times? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we're dusting off the old routine as we discuss “The Dummy”! Is it possible for an artist to completely lose their identity in their work? Is the destructiveness of mental illness more terrifying than the monsters it creates? When was ventriloquism ever popular for an adult audience? Find out on this edition of The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

On this edition of The Fifth Dimension, we're trading in these old failing bodies as we discuss “The Trade-Ins”! Is eternal youth too good to be true? Is love more important than life itself? What is the return policy for a human body after the tags have been removed? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:59am EDT

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we're separating fact from fiction as we discuss “Hocus Pocus and Frisby”! Is this a cautionary tale of the value of honesty? A meditation on the importance of friendship? Or just another comedic Twilight Zone episode gone wrong? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 10:19am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we're fleeing all responsibility as we discuss “The Fugitive” ! Are the responsibilities of life ultimately impossible to escape? Does childlike innocence transcend even the boundaries of species? And who ever heard of a dame with a brace being a captain? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!  

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:59am EDT

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're saying goodbye to war and hunger as we discuss “To Serve Man” ! Are humans too naive to survive an encounter with another intelligent species? Is altruism impossible? Do they have baseball on other planets? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!

 

 
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Category:general -- posted at: 8:52am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we're locking the door and keeping an eye out for Mr. Death as we discuss “Nothing in the Dark” ! Is death really such a bad thing? Is a good life better than a long life? If Death was really embodied in the form of a person, would he really be such an unconvincing actor? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:13am EDT

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we're fashioning a grappling hook as we discuss “Five Characters in Search of an Exit”! Is it true that "Hell is other people"? Are infinity and eternity the most terrifying concepts of all? Or is it bagpipes? Get all the answers on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!


 

This week on the Fifth Dimension, we're crossing our fingers for luck as we discuss “The Jungle”! Is all superstition equally invalid? When it comes to the dangers of black magic, are people better off safe than sorry? Where does one acquire a dead goat on an hour’s notice? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 11:44am EDT

This time on the Fifth Dimension, we're applying liberal amounts of sunblock as we discuss “The Midnight Sun”! Can the human capacity for kindness overcome the desperate struggle for survival? How does one go forward with daily life knowing the world is about to end? Did this episode steal its ideas from a British sci-fi movie released around the same time? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 9:34am EDT

On this episode of the Fifth Dimension, we're wishing everything into the cornfield as we discuss “It's a Good Life”! Are there fates even worse than death? Can a society be so oppressed that it censors itself? Is "cornfield" just a metaphor for the inevitable death of our childhood dreams? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:52am EDT

This week on the Fifth Dimension, we're revisiting the horrors of the past as we discuss “Deaths-Head Revisited”. Are even the most evil of human beings subject to the temptations of nostalgia? Can there ever really be justice for victims of crimes against humanity? Should the physical remains of the Holocaust be destroyed in order to promote healing, or instead preserved as a reminder of the capacity of humanity for evil? Get all the answers, and even more questions, this week on The Fifth Dimension.

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

On this episode of the Fifth Dimension, we're building a list of enemies as we discuss “The Mirror”! Can an object really be cursed, or does all of its power lie in the human imagination? Are dictatorships doomed to an endless cycle of revolution and restoration? How difficult was it to find convincing fake mustaches in 1961? Find out this week on this episode The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 9:37am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we're chalking up the cue and taking aim at “A Game of Pool”! What is the real cost of being a champion? Are those who try to overtake a legend doomed to perpetual unhappiness? How does one earn the nickname "Fats"? Get all the answers on this edition of The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:51am EDT

On this edition of The Fifth Dimension, it's an old-fashioned debate over states' rights and Northern aggression as we discuss “The Passersby”! Can the need for revenge sustain a person's existence, even after death? How has The Twilight Zone's view of the Civil War aged over the years? In the long list of Abraham Lincoln cameos, where does this one rank? Find out this week on The Fifth Dimension!

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:05am EDT

 

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we'll duck and cover as we discuss “The Shelter”! Are human beings innately selfish? Are the bonds of friendship doomed to crumble when everything is on the line? Which is more valuable: water or perfume? Get all the answers, this week on The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:57am EDT

 

On this week's episode of The Fifth Dimension, we'll stand trial as we discuss “The Obsolete Man”! Does the inevitable forward progress of civilization guarantee the destruction of the human soul? Is it possible for the State to legislate the human intellect? Is interpretive dance the ultimate punishment? All this and more, this week on The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:40am EDT

This time on The Fifth Dimension, it's a science-fiction 'Whodunit' as we discuss “Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?”!  How easily does humanity turn against itself? Is fear of the unknown the only necessary ingredient in the deadly cocktail known as ‘paranoia’? Would an invasion from Mars begin with an all-out assault on humanity’s sugar bowls? Find out on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!


 

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we’ll try to keep talking to a minimum as we discuss “The Silence”! How far is one man willing to go for $500,000? Is pride the most powerful human emotion, or just the most destructive? How many consecutive days could you wear a scarf before going mad? We'll answer all these questions and more, on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:25am EDT

 

On this episode of The Fifth Dimension, we’ll take a peek at what’s just beyond that rim over there as we discuss “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim”! Can an encounter with the Twilight Zone restore the faith of a doomed group of American settlers? Does the cynicism of our modern age prevent us from believing in the miraculous? Top hats or cowboy hats: which is more authentic? All this and more, this week The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:17am EDT

 

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we’ll brace for a rough landing as we discuss “The Odyssey of Flight 33”! Can our brave flight crew hold up against an unexpected encounter with time travel? Is this episode actually the prequel of a ghost story? Why does half of the crew have an upcoming “heavy date” in New York? Get all the answers on this episode of The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:16am EDT

 

This time on The Fifth Dimension, we’ll investigate the dark secrets of the human mind in "A Penny For Your Thoughts"! What would you do with the power to hear others' thoughts? Is this ability a blessing or a curse? Is this whole story just an episode of "Bewitched"? Find out on this edition of The Fifth Dimension!

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:15am EDT

 

On this edition of The Fifth Dimension, we’ll visit a quaint isolated farmhouse and brace for an encounter with “The Invaders"! What secrets lie beyond the known boundaries of space? Does humanity have an innate tendency to colonize the unknown, whatever the cost? Is Rod Serling actually a member of a race of giants? Get all the answers this week on The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

 

This week on The Fifth Dimension, we'll travel five minutes into the future as we examine “A Most Unusual Camera"! What would you do with the power to look even a short distance into the future? Can human morality survive an encounter with such a power? How hard is it to just not fall out of a window? All this and more, this time on The Fifth Dimension!
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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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