Rod Serling
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Series SeasonSeason 2 episodes1960
The Twilight Zone
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.
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 126 min1960-09-30
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.
Episode 226 min1960-10-07
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.
Episode 326 min1960-10-14
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.
Episode 426 min1960-10-28
A Thing About Machines
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
Episode 526 min1960-11-04
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.
Episode 626 min1960-11-11
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.
Episode 726 min1960-11-18
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.
Episode 826 min1960-12-02
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.
Episode 926 min1960-12-09
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.
Episode 1026 min1960-12-16
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.
Episode 1126 min1960-12-23
The Night of the Meek
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Episode 1226 min1961-01-06
Dust
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
Episode 1326 min1961-01-13
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.
Episode 1426 min1961-01-20
The Whole Truth
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
Episode 1526 min1961-01-27
The Invaders
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
Episode 1626 min1961-02-03
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.
Episode 1726 min1961-02-10
Twenty Two
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
Episode 1826 min1961-02-24
The Odyssey of Flight 33
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Episode 1926 min1961-03-03
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Episode 2026 min1961-03-10
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.
Episode 2126 min1961-03-24
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.
Episode 2226 min1961-03-31
Long Distance Call
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
Episode 2326 min1961-04-07
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.
Episode 2426 min1961-04-21
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Episode 2526 min1961-04-28
The Silence
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Episode 2626 min1961-05-05
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.
Episode 2726 min1961-05-12
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!
Episode 2826 min1961-05-26
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…
Episode 2926 min1961-06-02
The Obsolete Man
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.