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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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…
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.