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The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone: Season 2 (1960)

  • Episodes: 29
  • Premiered September 30, 1960

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

  1. King Nine Will Not Return

    Episode 1 · · 26m

    King Nine Will Not Return

    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.

    5.8
  2. The Man in the Bottle

    Episode 2 · · 26m

    The Man in the Bottle

    A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.

    6.9
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    Episode 3 · · 26m

    Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    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.

    6.5
  4. A Thing About Machines

    Episode 4 · · 26m

    A Thing About Machines

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

    5.9
  5. The Howling Man

    Episode 5 · · 26m

    The Howling Man

    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.

    7.3
  6. Eye of the Beholder

    Episode 6 · · 26m

    Eye of the Beholder

    A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

    8.5
  7. Nick of Time

    Episode 7 · · 26m

    Nick of Time

    A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.

    7.7
  8. The Lateness of the Hour

    Episode 8 · · 26m

    The Lateness of the Hour

    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.

    6.6
  9. The Trouble with Templeton

    Episode 9 · · 26m

    The Trouble with Templeton

    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.

    6.7
  10. A Most Unusual Camera

    Episode 10 · · 26m

    A Most Unusual Camera

    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.

    7.4
  11. The Night of the Meek

    Episode 11 · · 26m

    The Night of the Meek

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

    7.4
  12. Dust

    Episode 12 · · 26m

    Dust

    After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."

    6.6
  13. Back There

    Episode 13 · · 26m

    Back There

    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.

    7.1
  14. The Whole Truth

    Episode 14 · · 26m

    The Whole Truth

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

    6.0
  15. The Invaders

    Episode 15 · · 26m

    The Invaders

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

    7.6
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts

    Episode 16 · · 26m

    A Penny for Your Thoughts

    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.

    8.0
  17. Twenty Two

    Episode 17 · · 26m

    Twenty Two

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

    7.4
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33

    Episode 18 · · 26m

    The Odyssey of Flight 33

    A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

    6.9
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    Episode 19 · · 26m

    Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

    6.4
  20. Static

    Episode 20 · · 26m

    Static

    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.

    6.7
  21. The Prime Mover

    Episode 21 · · 26m

    The Prime Mover

    Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

    6.6
  22. Long Distance Call

    Episode 22 · · 26m

    Long Distance Call

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

    6.8
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    Episode 23 · · 26m

    A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.

    7.1
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    Episode 24 · · 26m

    The Rip Van Winkle Caper

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

    7.1
  25. The Silence

    Episode 25 · · 26m

    The Silence

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

    8.1
  26. Shadow Play

    Episode 26 · · 26m

    Shadow Play

    Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

    7.5
  27. The Mind and the Matter

    Episode 27 · · 26m

    The Mind and the Matter

    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!

    6.1
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    Episode 28 · · 26m

    Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    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…

    8.0
  29. The Obsolete Man

    Episode 29 · · 26m

    The Obsolete Man

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

    7.6
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