The Twilight Zone

Season 2

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The second season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 30, 1960 to June 2, 1961. There are 29 episodes.

29 Episodes

  • King Nine Will Not Return
    E1
    King Nine Will Not ReturnThe pilot of a downed B-25, Capt. James Embry, awakens in the desert, with no memory of how he got there. More worrisome, his crew is nowhere to be found. He begins to wonder if he's hallucinating, especially after he sees one of his men sitting in the cockpit. When he awakens in hospital, he thinks it might have all been a dream, but wonders: did any of this really happen?
  • The Man in the Bottle
    E2
    The Man in the BottleA luckless couple stumbles upon fortune when a genie materializes from a bottle in their antique shop. The genie grants them four wishes but warns them, prophetically, to be careful what you wish for.
  • Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
    E3
    Nervous Man in a Four Dollar RoomOrdered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.
  • A Thing About Machines
    E4
    A Thing About MachinesBartlett Finchley is an odd man, a writer who contributes to food magazines and the like. He lives alone and is always it seems in need of a repairman for one piece of household equipment or another. As time has gone by, he seems to be in a constant battle with machines - his typewriter, his television - which all have the same message for him: get out of the house. He has no intention of doing so however and the battle begins.
  • The Howling Man
    E5
    The Howling ManSeeking refuge from a storm, a traveler comes upon a bizarre abbey of monks, who have imprisoned a man who begs for his help. When he confronts the head monk, he is told that the man is the Devil, and he must decide whom to believe.
  • Eye of the Beholder
    E6
    Eye of the BeholderA young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
  • Nick of Time
    E7
    Nick of TimeA superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
  • The Lateness of the Hour
    E8
    The Lateness of the HourJana Loren is an attractive young woman who lives at home with her parents. She feels suffocated living there however, surrounded by their many servants - that are in fact human-looking robots created by her inventor father. Her parents are quite happy with the life they lead but realize that they're going to have to do something about the rebellious Jana, including revealing at least one secret they have kept from her.
  • The Trouble with Templeton
    E9
    The Trouble with TempletonBooth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.
  • A Most Unusual Camera
    E10
    A Most Unusual CameraMarried couple Chester and Paula have broken into and robbed a curio shop, hoping to sell the loot for a handsome sum of money. Unfortunately, all of it turns out to be junk or fakes. All, that is, save for a mysterious camera. When they try taking a picture, it turns out to be from five minutes into the future. Soon Paula's brother Woodward joins them and the three decide to use the camera at a horse track to win big.
  • The Night of the Meek
    E11
    The Night of the MeekA down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
  • Dust
    E12
    DustOn a hot day, sympathetic Sheriff Koch and callous con man Peter Sykes are among the many who gather in a desert town to see young Luis Gallegos hanged for accidentally killing a child while drunk. Can some magic dust save Luis?
  • Back There
    E13
    Back ThereIt's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination.
  • The Whole Truth
    E14
    The Whole TruthA peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
  • The Invaders
    E15
    The InvadersAn old woman who lives alone in a ramshackle farm house comes face to face with alien invaders. She hears something on her roof and then finds a flying saucer, perhaps six or seven feet across from which emerges two small robots. She fights them as best she can and eventually succeeds in destroying their ship. The nature of the invaders however is not immediately obvious however.
  • A Penny for Your Thoughts
    E16
    A Penny for Your ThoughtsThe lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
  • Twenty Two
    E17
    Twenty TwoMiss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
  • The Odyssey of Flight 33
    E18
    The Odyssey of Flight 33Global Flight 33 is en route from London to New York in what appears to be a routine flight in a modern jetliner. Suddenly however, the jet's speed increases to an incredible 3000 knots and they arrive in New York rather quickly. Neither the captain or his well-trained crew can explain what happened - a strange tail-wind perhaps - but they are certainly not prepared for what they find as they survey the land below them.
  • Mr. Dingle, the Strong
    E19
    Mr. Dingle, the StrongLuther Dingle is a meek and mild-mannered vacuum cleaner salesman. He spends some time in a bar but always seems to be in the middle of others arguments and always seems to get the worst of it. Courtesy of visiting - but invisible - aliens, he is given great strength, some 300 times greater than that of a normal human being. Dingle becomes something of a local celebrity but just how long will his powers last?
  • Static
    E20
    StaticEd Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.
  • The Prime Mover
    E21
    The Prime MoverAce Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
  • Long Distance Call
    E22
    Long Distance CallA toy telephone given as a birthday gift becomes the link between young Billy Bayles and his newly deceased beloved grandmother, but this link becomes dangerous when she apparently wants him to join her on the other side.
  • A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
    E23
    A Hundred Yards Over the RimIn 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
  • The Rip Van Winkle Caper
    E24
    The Rip Van Winkle CaperThieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
  • The Silence
    E25
    The SilenceAnnoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.
  • Shadow Play
    E26
    Shadow PlayConvicted killer Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare in which he is sentenced to death by electrocution. He tries to convince those around him that they are imaginary and will cease to exist if he is executed.
  • The Mind and the Matter
    E27
    The Mind and the MatterA book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
  • Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
    E28
    Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.
  • The Obsolete Man
    E29
    The Obsolete ManIn a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.

Cast of The Twilight Zone • Season 2

  • Rod SerlingSelf - Host
  • William FrougProducer
  • Herbert HirschmanProducer

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