The Twilight Zone — Season 2
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About this season
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.
Episodes (29)
1. King Nine Will Not Return
5.8Aired 30 September 1960 • 26 min
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
2. The Man in the Bottle
6.8Aired 7 October 1960 • 26 min
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
6.4Aired 14 October 1960 • 26 min
Ordered 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.
4. A Thing About Machines
6.0Aired 28 October 1960 • 26 min
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
5. The Howling Man
7.4Aired 4 November 1960 • 26 min
A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.
6. Eye of the Beholder
8.5Aired 11 November 1960 • 26 min
A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
7. Nick of Time
7.8Aired 18 November 1960 • 26 min
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
8. The Lateness of the Hour
6.6Aired 2 December 1960 • 26 min
Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.
9. The Trouble with Templeton
6.6Aired 9 December 1960 • 26 min
Booth 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.
10. A Most Unusual Camera
7.3Aired 16 December 1960 • 26 min
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.
11. The Night of the Meek
7.4Aired 23 December 1960 • 26 min
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
12. Dust
6.6Aired 6 January 1961 • 26 min
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
13. Back There
7.1Aired 13 January 1961 • 26 min
It'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.
14. The Whole Truth
5.9Aired 20 January 1961 • 26 min
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
15. The Invaders
7.6Aired 27 January 1961 • 26 min
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
8.0Aired 3 February 1961 • 26 min
The 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.
17. Twenty Two
7.4Aired 10 February 1961 • 26 min
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
7.0Aired 24 February 1961 • 26 min
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
6.5Aired 3 March 1961 • 26 min
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
20. Static
6.8Aired 10 March 1961 • 26 min
Ed 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.
21. The Prime Mover
6.5Aired 24 March 1961 • 26 min
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
22. Long Distance Call
6.8Aired 31 March 1961 • 26 min
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
7.2Aired 7 April 1961 • 26 min
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
7.0Aired 21 April 1961 • 26 min
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
25. The Silence
8.0Aired 28 April 1961 • 26 min
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
26. Shadow Play
7.6Aired 5 May 1961 • 26 min
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
27. The Mind and the Matter
6.3Aired 12 May 1961 • 26 min
A 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!
28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
8.1Aired 26 May 1961 • 26 min
State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…
29. The Obsolete Man
7.6Aired 2 June 1961 • 26 min
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.