The BEST episodes of Power Rangers season 5
Every episode of Power Rangers season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Power Rangers season 5!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a long-running American children's television series adapted from the Japanese tokusatsu Super Sentai Series. A team of five high school students are selected by Zordon to battle evil. Using martial arts, special weapons, and gigantic robots called "Zords", they protect their city Angel Grove from monsters and witches.
#1 - Shift Into Turbo (3)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/1997
With the current Power Ranger team fully capable of defending Earth without their guidance, Zordon and Alpha 5 are headed home to the planet Eltar at last. Divatox is going to do everything she can to keep the pair from having a safe trip, by first sending Elgar and his fleet of monstrous tanks to flank the Rangers in their Turbozords to keep them from saying goodbye to their mentors, and then by having the Amphibitor monster guard a device made to close the wormhole to Eltar with the travelers inside it! But who are the mysterious pair left behind to run the Power Chamber? Also, as the elder Ranger Teens finally graduate high school, Justin finds himself entering it early!
#2 - Clash of the Megazords
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/26/1997
The Phantom Ranger's dying without his Power Ruby. The Rangers are desperate to recover it, but find the Space Base impossible to breach. Eventually, it comes down to this: the Rangers using their new Rescue Megazord to battle against the Turbo Megazord, piloted by the Crosspatch monster with Chromites, and powered by Phanty's Ruby. Can our heroes save the city without destroying their old Megazord, and get the Ruby back in time to save their mysterious benefactor's life?
#3 - The Fall of the Phantom
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/25/1997
In needing a power source to energize the stolen Turbo Megazord, Divatox targets the Phantom Ranger, namely his Power Ruby. To get close enough to it, Cassie's fixation on Phanty is exploited by the space pirates, leading to her capture! Meanwhile, General Havoc has a new and improved Metallsaurus ready to attack, meaning the Rangers' new Rescuezords are going to have to step up to a new formation of their own.
#4 - One Last Hope
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/23/1997
With the Turbo Megazord imprisoned on Divatox's Space Base, the Rangers are left unable to defend the city from Havoc's Metallsaurus. The Phantom Ranger has something to help them, but can our heroes venture safely through Angel Grove as the city is attacked all around them? Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull's jobs as tour guides leaves them getting trapped in a toppeling skyscraper during the Metallsaurus assault.
#5 - The Darkest Day
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/22/1997
Divatox's brother, General Havoc, arrives to aid her in her attempted conquering of the Power Rangers. First, he gives her a Space Base to dock her Subcraft, and then he attacks the Rangers with his own evil Zord, known as Metallasaurus. Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull take jobs as tour guides for the new Angel Grove Monster Tours.
#6 - When Time Freezes Over
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/19/1997
Following the Turbo Rangers successful foiling of Divatox's plan to freeze the sun, the evil pirate woman recruits the Clockster monster, who rewinds the day, so she can recover the Freeze Key and try again. But the second time out, Clockster touches the powerful device, stopping time cold in its tracks! Is this the end of time, or does the Phantom Ranger have yet another trick up his sleeve? Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull get jobs as vaccuum salesmen for the Total Vac Corporation. Their demonstrations prove messy, all over Lt. Stone.
#7 - Vanishing Act
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/18/1997
Divatox's latest monster recruit, Translucitor, goes around shifting Angel Grove onto a parallel plane of reality, thus making all buildings and items invisible to the Ranger Teens, including the Power Chamber! The city is vulnerable to looting by the Evil Space Pirates, unless the Rangers, with help from their new friend the Phantom Ranger, can make Translucitor fade away for good. Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull are interviewed by a shady character for a job they can't refuse... costumed birthday greeting singers at a singing telegram company. First as bunnies, then masked wrestlers, both at the Juice Bar!
#8 - The Phantom Phenomenon
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/17/1997
A spaceship arrives on Earth, and with it, the Phantom Ranger, a strange warrior in black armor with the power of invisibility and a penchant for showing up to save the day in the nick of time. His motives are a mystery to both the sides of good and evil. When Justin's pal Nico discovers Phantom Ranger's spaceship's hidden location, it gives Divatox's forces the opening to attack the new arrival when he least expects it. Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull take jobs as security guards, first for a bank, then for the local gold mine. Guess what two places Divatox's forces choose to loot today?
#9 - Trouble by the Slice
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/16/1997
During a teleporter accident, Divatox gets amnesia! After wandering through Angel Grove for a while, she ends up working at a Mad Mike's Pizza Parlor. Carlos & Justin end up at said parlor, as does Porto, who spots his boss at the business while picking up food for the Subcraft. Soon, the villains turn the logo on the pizza box into the Mad Mike monster, who attacks our heroes by baking the Rangers into a giant pizza! Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull do deliveries for the pizza parlor, but find their sense of direction to be as poor as ever.
#10 - Stitch Witchery
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/12/1997
Ashley is excited when she gets a job working with an extravagant fashion designer. She's unaware, though, that the designer, Delisha Enevil, is actually a monster of Divatox's. Ashley's ugly plaid jackets are mass produced by Piranahtron overnight. But the jackets are infused with the monster's magic, making anyone who wears them cruel, greedy, and evil. It's bad enough with all of the Rangers, sans Ashley, put them on, but when Blue Senturion gets tricked into one, he soon goes on another rampage, this time including a jacket-clad Robo Racer! Meanwhile, Bulk & Skull, back to humans but invisible, get mischievous around Angel Grove and the Juice Bar.
#11 - Passing the Torch (2)
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/11/1997
Tommy's a captive of Divatox, and dangling over the Vortex of Eternal Doom and Sorrow, with only a rat-eaten rope keeping him hanging on to life. The only ones to have even a clue as to where he is are TJ & Cassie, but are they brave and strong enough to face the forces of evil? Flamite, after ruining the teens' camping trip, turns his sights on the city, heating the situation up by growing. Can Ashley & Carlos keep a group of children out of harm's way while the Rangers put out the giant fire? And on top of all of that, time is running out for the four eldest Rangers, who must pass on their powers to worthy successors by the end of the day, or place the world in permanent peril.
#12 - Passing the Torch (1)
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/10/1997
Visited by her mother Mama D, Divatox is inspired to take down the Turbo Rangers by removing their leader. While heading to the outskirts of Angel Grove to go camping with Adam, Justin, and Tanya, Tommy & Kat are ambushed by Piranahtron. A pair of young teens on a bus in the midst of moving to the area, T.J. (a wannabe professional baseball batter) and Cassie (a wannabe singing star), spot the disturbance and come to the Rangers' aid. But will they be too late to save Tommy? Meanwhile, the other three Ranger Teens must contend with both a Putrapod and the Flamite monster at their campsite.
#13 - Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers (2)
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/9/1997
Shrunk to the size of bugs and trapped in a gift box on the bridge of Divatox's Subcraft, the four Turbo Rangers devise an escape plan, but find the nooks and crannies of the ship's ductwork to be just as deadly as what they're fleeing from. As if that wasn't bad enough, the longer they remain small, the more insectiod they become! Meanwhile, Justin, the sole unshrunk Ranger, scours the city for his micro-sized teammates, and for the detonator-carrying Bulk & Skull Chimps.
#14 - Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers (1)
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/21/1997
A charity clean-up drive the Ranger Teens are participating in gets targeted by Divatox. The Shrinkasect monster flies into Blue Senturion's head and bugs him to the point he goes on a rampage! This keeps the Rangers busy while a detonator in a soda can is planted, where it's picked up by the Bulk & Skull Chimps, out to collect the most trash in order to gain enough attention to get turned back to humans.
#15 - A Drive to Win
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/19/1997
Adam coaches the Angel Grove High soccer team, of which the star player, Carlos, is in dire need of lessons in teamwork. Both he, and the head cheerleader, Ashley, are strangely targeted by Divatox in an attack. Her detonator plot for this episode involves using Carlos' eagerness to score points over working with his team, by planting a bomb in the scoreboard. Also, Elgar joins forces with the Electrovolt monster in a shocking motorcycle battle against the Turbo Rangers. Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps dress up as cheerleaders in an attempt to prove they're really humans.
#16 - The Millennium Message
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/17/1997
Blue Senturion, an intergalactic law enforcement robot from another galaxy, comes to Angel Grove with a message from the future. Divatox learns what's on the message, that she, Rita & Zedd, and the Machine Empire will one day team-up to attack Earth, only to be foiled by a certain group of heroes. She manages to turn Blue Senturion against the Rangers by having Porto reprogram him, as well as place a detonator within his circuitry! Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps attempt to use Adam's magic wand prop to turn themselves back into humans.
#17 - Alarmed and Dangerous
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/13/1997
Justin finds himself caught between a rock and hardplace when he squeals on two bullies who pull a fire alarm falsely, and their targeting of him nearly leads to his using his powers in front of them! Meanwhile, one of Divatox's detonators finally goes off, turning a harmless fire engine truck into a rampaging monster! Also, the Bulk & Skull Chimps serve drinks at the Juice Bar, trying to prove themselves to actually be human beings.
#18 - Weight and See
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/12/1997
Kat becomes self-conscious about her weight when trying out for a ballet, where her tall height and proportionate weight is criticized by a fellow female. Soon, the Numbor monster, working to make Divatox's plan to sink Angel Grove come to life, uses his gravity-distorting powers to give Kat her wish, and make her weightless! It'll take an acceptance of herself to get her feet back on the ground to aid her teammates in defeating him. Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps try complicated dish stacking and even ballet to try and convince people they're humans stuck as primates.
#19 - Glyph Hanger
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/10/1997
Divatox's former fiance, Pharaoh, comes to town. His magical staff falls into Adam's hands, when he believes it to be a prop at his Egyptian stunt-show. It begins turning every sign nearby into hieroglyphics! Divatox plants a pyramid-shaped detonator at the stunt show, which blends in with all the props, and if that weren't bad enough, has an electrified force-field around it! Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps are inspired by the hieroglyphics, and attempt to show everyone they're humans by painting drawings.
#20 - The Whole Lie
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/1997
Struck by a ray, Justin is put under a spell which forces him to always lie. And with each lie, another Pirahantron appears nearby! He must find a way to say the truth to break the spell, in time to aid his teammates against the Mouth Piece monster. If that wasn't bad enough, a detonator has been placed as the Youth Center's volunteer car wash. Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps try to catch the Rangers' attention in an effort to get changed back to humans, and in doing so prove to be heroic.
#21 - Bicycle Built for the Blues
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/1997
Justin's birthday has arrived, but as excited as he is, his friends seem to have forgotten (when in actuality, they are preparing him a surprise party). Divatox takes advantage of the misunderstanding to leave Justin a gift, a special bicycle equipped with a detonator. Unaware of this, he gets on, and discovers too late the bike has a mind of its own, not allowing him to get off until it reaches 25 miles, where it'll explode!
#22 - Built for Speed
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/6/1997
Members of Adam's 1950s stunt show take their characters too seriously, and the rival "gangs" of leather-jacket-clad teens prepare to have a drag race at Angel Grove Bluff. If that wasn't bad enough, Divatox keeps the Rangers running ragged as they face a Demon Racer monster (and when he's defeated, his spare replacement), and unknown to the drag racers, places a detonator in their vintage car's fuzzy dice! Meanwhile, the Bulk & Skull Chimps stowaway in the drag racing cars in an effort to be at the scene of trouble when the Rangers arrive, in the hopes they'll turn them back to humans.
#23 - Rally Ranger
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/1997
Participating in a soapbox-car derby, Justin contends with a brutual pre-teen bully, named Warren, who's prepared to win at any cost. Meanwhile, with his detonator-making prowess unappreciated on Divatox's Subcraft, Porto, feeling dejected, strikes out on his own, giving the Rangers big trouble! The lack of the tech expert doesn't stop Elgar from completing a detonator and sticking it in Warren's racer. Also, the Bulk & Skull Chimps highjack the previous year's winning racer in an effort to become famous and get turned back into humans.
#24 - Transmission Impossible
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/1997
Arriving from the Planet Inquiris to deliver a message of great importance to Dimitria, the alien Visceron is brought down by Divatox, and when he refuses to talk, she meddles with his mind and turns him against the Turbo Rangers. Meanwhile, Tanya's KAGV radio show is targeted both by Divatox (a detonator is placed on the transmitter tower) and the Bulk & Skull Chimps (they hope to get noticed as humans by getting on the air!)
#25 - Shadow Rangers
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/1997
Divatox hires a special monochrome Chromite, who blasts the Rangers' powers when they Morph, causing them to not only fail to power up, but for their shadows to come to life with evil Shadow Ranger doubles! Only Tommy is spared this fate, and he'll figure out how to save his friends, but finds that Dimitria's responses of questions when he wants answers is no help to him at first. Time's running out, as a paint-can camouflaged detonator is ticking down at a construction site in town. Meanwhile, the Youth Center & Juice Bar gets a familiar new owner. What is his connection with the two hairy little culprits behind a rash of minor thefts occurring all around Angel Grove?