The Twilight Zone
Season 2
1960 • 29 Episodes
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
September 30, 1960
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
October 7, 1960
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
October 14, 1960
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
October 28, 1960
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
5. The Howling Man
November 4, 1960
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
November 11, 1960
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
November 18, 1960
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
December 2, 1960
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
December 9, 1960
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
December 16, 1960
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
December 23, 1960
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
12. Dust
January 6, 1961
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
January 13, 1961
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
January 20, 1961
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
15. The Invaders
January 27, 1961
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
February 3, 1961
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
February 10, 1961
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
February 24, 1961
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
March 3, 1961
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
20. Static
March 10, 1961
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
March 24, 1961
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
March 31, 1961
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
April 7, 1961
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
April 21, 1961
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
25. The Silence
April 28, 1961
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
26. Shadow Play
May 5, 1961
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
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
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
June 2, 1961
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.