Season 2

Season • Sep 30, 1960–Jun 2, 1961

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.
  1. S2E1 - King Nine Will Not Return

    King Nine Will Not Return

    26 min • Sep 30, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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. S2E2 - The Man in the Bottle

    The Man in the Bottle

    26 min • Oct 7, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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. S2E3 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    26 min • Oct 14, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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. S2E4 - A Thing About Machines

    A Thing About Machines

    26 min • Oct 28, 1960 (65 years ago)

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

  5. S2E5 - The Howling Man

    The Howling Man

    26 min • Nov 4, 1960 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E6 - Eye of the Beholder

    Eye of the Beholder

    26 min • Nov 11, 1960 (65 years ago)

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

  7. S2E7 - Nick of Time

    Nick of Time

    26 min • Nov 18, 1960 (65 years ago)

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

  8. S2E8 - The Lateness of the Hour

    The Lateness of the Hour

    26 min • Dec 2, 1960 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E9 - The Trouble with Templeton

    The Trouble with Templeton

    26 min • Dec 9, 1960 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E10 - A Most Unusual Camera

    A Most Unusual Camera

    26 min • Dec 16, 1960 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E11 - The Night of the Meek

    The Night of the Meek

    26 min • Dec 23, 1960 (65 years ago)

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

  12. S2E12 - Dust

    Dust

    26 min • Jan 6, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  13. S2E13 - Back There

    Back There

    26 min • Jan 13, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E14 - The Whole Truth

    The Whole Truth

    26 min • Jan 20, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  15. S2E15 - The Invaders

    The Invaders

    26 min • Jan 27, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  16. S2E16 - A Penny for Your Thoughts

    A Penny for Your Thoughts

    26 min • Feb 3, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E17 - Twenty Two

    Twenty Two

    26 min • Feb 10, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  18. S2E18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33

    The Odyssey of Flight 33

    26 min • Feb 24, 1961 (65 years ago)

    A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

  19. S2E19 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    26 min • Mar 3, 1961 (65 years ago)

    Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

  20. S2E20 - Static

    Static

    26 min • Mar 10, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E21 - The Prime Mover

    The Prime Mover

    26 min • Mar 24, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  22. S2E22 - Long Distance Call

    Long Distance Call

    26 min • Mar 31, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  23. S2E23 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    26 min • Apr 7, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  24. S2E24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    26 min • Apr 21, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  25. S2E25 - The Silence

    The Silence

    26 min • Apr 28, 1961 (65 years ago)

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

  26. S2E26 - Shadow Play

    Shadow Play

    26 min • May 5, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E27 - The Mind and the Matter

    The Mind and the Matter

    26 min • May 12, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E28 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    26 min • May 26, 1961 (65 years ago)

    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. S2E29 - The Obsolete Man

    The Obsolete Man

    26 min • Jun 2, 1961 (65 years ago)

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