Season 2

Sep 30, 1960
29 Episodes
TMDB
71%

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

Sep 30, 1960
26 min
58%

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

Oct 7, 1960
26 min
67%

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

Oct 14, 1960
26 min
64%

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

Oct 28, 1960
26 min
60%

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

5

The Howling Man

Nov 4, 1960
26 min
73%

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

Nov 11, 1960
26 min
85%

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

Nov 18, 1960
26 min
77%

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

Dec 2, 1960
26 min
65%

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

Dec 9, 1960
26 min
66%

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

Dec 16, 1960
26 min
74%

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

Dec 23, 1960
26 min
74%

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

12

Dust

Jan 6, 1961
26 min
66%

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

Jan 13, 1961
26 min
71%

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

Jan 20, 1961
26 min
58%

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

15

The Invaders

Jan 27, 1961
26 min
75%

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

16

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Feb 3, 1961
26 min
80%

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

Feb 10, 1961
26 min
74%

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

18

The Odyssey of Flight 33

Feb 24, 1961
26 min
70%

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

19

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Mar 3, 1961
26 min
65%

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

20

Static

Mar 10, 1961
26 min
68%

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

Mar 24, 1961
26 min
65%

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

Mar 31, 1961
26 min
68%

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

23

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Apr 7, 1961
26 min
71%

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

Apr 21, 1961
26 min
70%

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

25

The Silence

Apr 28, 1961
26 min
80%

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

26

Shadow Play

May 5, 1961
26 min
76%

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

May 12, 1961
26 min
63%

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?

May 26, 1961
26 min
81%

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

Jun 2, 1961
26 min
76%

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