Season 2 poster

Season 2

(1960)

Overview

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.

Cast

Rod Serling as Self - Host
Rod Serling

as Self - Host

Episodes

King Nine Will Not Return poster

King Nine Will Not Return 5.7

September 30, 1960

A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened …

The Man in the Bottle poster

The Man in the Bottle 6.6

October 7, 1960

A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants h…

Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room poster

Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room 6.4

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 …

A Thing About Machines poster

A Thing About Machines 5.7

October 28, 1960

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

The Howling Man poster

The Howling Man 7.4

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 my…

Eye of the Beholder poster

Eye of the Beholder 8.4

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 no…

Nick of Time poster

Nick of Time 7.8

November 18, 1960

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

The Lateness of the Hour poster

The Lateness of the Hour 6.3

December 2, 1960

Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her f…

The Trouble with Templeton poster

The Trouble with Templeton 6.2

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 sobe…

A Most Unusual Camera poster

A Most Unusual Camera 7.2

December 16, 1960

Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of event…

The Night of the Meek poster

The Night of the Meek 7.3

December 23, 1960

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

Dust poster

Dust 6.3

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."

Back There poster

Back There 7.1

January 13, 1961

It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becom…

The Whole Truth poster

The Whole Truth 5.4

January 20, 1961

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

The Invaders poster

The Invaders 7.5

January 27, 1961

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

A Penny For Your Thoughts poster

A Penny For Your Thoughts 8.0

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 …

Twenty Two poster

Twenty Two 7.4

February 10, 1961

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

The Odyssey of Flight 33 poster

The Odyssey of Flight 33 6.7

February 24, 1961

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

Mr. Dingle, the Strong poster

Mr. Dingle, the Strong 6.2

March 3, 1961

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Static poster

Static 6.3

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 …

The Prime Mover poster

The Prime Mover 6.5

March 24, 1961

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

Long Distance Call poster

Long Distance Call 6.5

March 31, 1961

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

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim poster

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim 6.8

April 7, 1961

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

The Rip Van Winkle Caper poster

The Rip Van Winkle Caper 7.0

April 21, 1961

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

The Silence poster

The Silence 8.0

April 28, 1961

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

Shadow Play poster

Shadow Play 7.7

May 5, 1961

Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario…

The Mind and the Matter poster

The Mind and the Matter 6.1

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 w…

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? poster

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? 8.1

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 s…

The Obsolete Man poster

The Obsolete Man 7.5

June 2, 1961

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