Season 2

Season 2 (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: 29

Star Cast: Rod Serling ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 King Nine Will Not Return

Air Date: 1960-09-30

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.

Ep.2 The Man in the Bottle

Air Date: 1960-10-07

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

Ep.3 Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

Air Date: 1960-10-14

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.

Ep.4 A Thing About Machines

Air Date: 1960-10-28

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

Ep.5 The Howling Man

Air Date: 1960-11-04

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.

Ep.6 Eye of the Beholder

Air Date: 1960-11-11

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

Ep.7 Nick of Time

Air Date: 1960-11-18

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

Ep.8 The Lateness of the Hour

Air Date: 1960-12-02

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.

Ep.9 The Trouble with Templeton

Air Date: 1960-12-09

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.

Ep.10 A Most Unusual Camera

Air Date: 1960-12-16

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.

Ep.11 The Night of the Meek

Air Date: 1960-12-23

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

Ep.12 Dust

Air Date: 1961-01-06

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

Ep.13 Back There

Air Date: 1961-01-13

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.

Ep.14 The Whole Truth

Air Date: 1961-01-20

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

Ep.15 The Invaders

Air Date: 1961-01-27

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

Ep.16 A Penny for Your Thoughts

Air Date: 1961-02-03

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.

Ep.17 Twenty Two

Air Date: 1961-02-10

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

Ep.18 The Odyssey of Flight 33

Air Date: 1961-02-24

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

Ep.19 Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Air Date: 1961-03-03

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Ep.20 Static

Air Date: 1961-03-10

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.

Ep.21 The Prime Mover

Air Date: 1961-03-24

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

Ep.22 Long Distance Call

Air Date: 1961-03-31

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

Ep.23 A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Air Date: 1961-04-07

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

Ep.24 The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Air Date: 1961-04-21

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

Ep.25 The Silence

Air Date: 1961-04-28

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

Ep.26 Shadow Play

Air Date: 1961-05-05

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

Ep.27 The Mind and the Matter

Air Date: 1961-05-12

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!

Ep.28 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

Air Date: 1961-05-26

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…

Ep.29 The Obsolete Man

Air Date: 1961-06-02

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