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Season 2
September 30, 1960

Season 2

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.

01. 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.

26min
September 30, 1960

02. 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.

26min
October 7, 1960

03. 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.

26min
October 14, 1960

04. A Thing About Machines

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

26min
October 28, 1960

05. 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.

26min
November 4, 1960

06. 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.

26min
November 11, 1960

07. 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.

26min
November 18, 1960

08. 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.

26min
December 2, 1960

09. 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.

26min
December 9, 1960

10. 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.

26min
December 16, 1960

11. The Night of the Meek

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

26min
December 23, 1960

12. Dust

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

26min
January 6, 1961

13. 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.

26min
January 13, 1961

14. The Whole Truth

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

26min
January 20, 1961

15. The Invaders

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

26min
January 27, 1961

16. 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.

26min
February 3, 1961

17. Twenty Two

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

26min
February 10, 1961

18. The Odyssey of Flight 33

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

26min
February 24, 1961

19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

26min
March 3, 1961

20. 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.

26min
March 10, 1961

21. 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.

26min
March 24, 1961

22. Long Distance Call

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

26min
March 31, 1961

23. 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.

26min
April 7, 1961

24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper

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

26min
April 21, 1961

25. The Silence

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

26min
April 28, 1961

26. 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.

26min
May 5, 1961

27. 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!

26min
May 12, 1961

28. 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…

26min
May 26, 1961

29. The Obsolete Man

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

26min
June 2, 1961