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Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

  • Air date:1960-09-30
  • User score:
    7.1
  • Number of episodes:29
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.

List of Episodes

King Nine Will Not Return
S2E1
6.0

Air date: 1960-09-30

Runtime: 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.

The Man in the Bottle
S2E2
6.8

Air date: 1960-10-07

Runtime: 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.

Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
S2E3
6.6

Air date: 1960-10-14

Runtime: 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.

A Thing About Machines
S2E4
6.0

Air date: 1960-10-28

Runtime: 26 min

A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.

The Howling Man
S2E5
7.4

Air date: 1960-11-04

Runtime: 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.

Eye of the Beholder
S2E6
8.5

Air date: 1960-11-11

Runtime: 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.

Nick of Time
S2E7
7.8

Air date: 1960-11-18

Runtime: 26 min

A 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
S2E8
6.5

Air date: 1960-12-02

Runtime: 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.

The Trouble with Templeton
S2E9
6.5

Air date: 1960-12-09

Runtime: 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.

A Most Unusual Camera
S2E10
7.3

Air date: 1960-12-16

Runtime: 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.

The Night of the Meek
S2E11
7.4

Air date: 1960-12-23

Runtime: 26 min

A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

Dust
S2E12
6.5

Air date: 1961-01-06

Runtime: 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."

Back There
S2E13
7.1

Air date: 1961-01-13

Runtime: 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.

The Whole Truth
S2E14
5.7

Air date: 1961-01-20

Runtime: 26 min

A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.

The Invaders
S2E15
7.5

Air date: 1961-01-27

Runtime: 26 min

An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

A Penny For Your Thoughts
S2E16
8.0

Air date: 1961-02-03

Runtime: 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.

Twenty Two
S2E17
7.4

Air date: 1961-02-10

Runtime: 26 min

Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.

The Odyssey of Flight 33
S2E18
7.0

Air date: 1961-02-24

Runtime: 26 min

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

Mr. Dingle, the Strong
S2E19
6.4

Air date: 1961-03-03

Runtime: 26 min

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Static
S2E20
6.7

Air date: 1961-03-10

Runtime: 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.

The Prime Mover
S2E21
6.8

Air date: 1961-03-24

Runtime: 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.

Long Distance Call
S2E22
6.8

Air date: 1961-03-31

Runtime: 26 min

A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
S2E23
7.1

Air date: 1961-04-07

Runtime: 26 min

In 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
S2E24
7.1

Air date: 1961-04-21

Runtime: 26 min

Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.

The Silence
S2E25
8.1

Air date: 1961-04-28

Runtime: 26 min

A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

Shadow Play
S2E26
7.7

Air date: 1961-05-05

Runtime: 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.

The Mind and the Matter
S2E27
6.4

Air date: 1961-05-12

Runtime: 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!

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
S2E28
8.1

Air date: 1961-05-26

Runtime: 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…

The Obsolete Man
S2E29
7.7

Air date: 1961-06-02

Runtime: 26 min

In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.

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Rod Serling

Rod Serling

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