The Twilight Zone (Season 2)

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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

  • Poster for King Nine Will Not Return

    King Nine Will Not Return (Episode 1) 6.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-09-30

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Man in the Bottle

    The Man in the Bottle (Episode 2) 6.8

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-10-07

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (Episode 3) 6.5

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-10-14

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for A Thing About Machines

    A Thing About Machines (Episode 4) 6.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-10-28

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Howling Man

    The Howling Man (Episode 5) 7.4

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

    Air date: 1960-11-04

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Eye of the Beholder

    Eye of the Beholder (Episode 6) 8.5

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-11-11

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Nick of Time

    Nick of Time (Episode 7) 7.8

    Writer: Richard Matheson

    Air date: 1960-11-18

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Lateness of the Hour

    The Lateness of the Hour (Episode 8) 6.5

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-12-02

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Trouble with Templeton

    The Trouble with Templeton (Episode 9) 6.5

    Writer: E. Jack Neuman

    Air date: 1960-12-09

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for A Most Unusual Camera

    A Most Unusual Camera (Episode 10) 7.3

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-12-16

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Night of the Meek

    The Night of the Meek (Episode 11) 7.4

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1960-12-23

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Dust

    Dust (Episode 12) 6.5

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-01-06

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Back There

    Back There (Episode 13) 7.1

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-01-13

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Whole Truth

    The Whole Truth (Episode 14) 5.7

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-01-20

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Invaders

    The Invaders (Episode 15) 7.5

    Writer: Richard Matheson

    Air date: 1961-01-27

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for A Penny For Your Thoughts

    A Penny For Your Thoughts (Episode 16) 8.0

    Writer: George Clayton Johnson

    Air date: 1961-02-03

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Twenty Two

    Twenty Two (Episode 17) 7.4

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-02-10

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Odyssey of Flight 33

    The Odyssey of Flight 33 (Episode 18) 7.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-02-24

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

  • Poster for Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    Mr. Dingle, the Strong (Episode 19) 6.4

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-03-03

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

  • Poster for Static

    Static (Episode 20) 6.7

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

    Air date: 1961-03-10

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Prime Mover

    The Prime Mover (Episode 21) 6.8

    Writer: George Clayton Johnson

    Air date: 1961-03-24

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Long Distance Call

    Long Distance Call (Episode 22) 6.8

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

    Air date: 1961-03-31

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (Episode 23) 7.2

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-04-07

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    The Rip Van Winkle Caper (Episode 24) 7.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-04-21

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Silence

    The Silence (Episode 25) 8.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-04-28

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for Shadow Play

    Shadow Play (Episode 26) 7.6

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

    Air date: 1961-05-05

    Runtime: 26 min

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

  • Poster for The Mind and the Matter

    The Mind and the Matter (Episode 27) 6.3

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-05-12

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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!

  • Poster for Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (Episode 28) 8.0

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-05-26

    Runtime: 26 min

    Overview: 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…

  • Poster for The Obsolete Man

    The Obsolete Man (Episode 29) 7.6

    Writer: Rod Serling

    Air date: 1961-06-02

    Runtime: 26 min

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

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