Overview of 'The Twilight Zone' Season 2

The Twilight Zone (1959)

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

Writing:

Rod Serling

Stars:

Release Date: 1959-10-02
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5

8.4/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 25

Season 2 Episode List

Episode 1 - King Nine Will Not Return
Release 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.
Episode 2 - The Man in the Bottle
Release 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.
Episode 3 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Release 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.
Episode 4 - A Thing About Machines
Release Date: 1960-10-28
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
Episode 5 - The Howling Man
Release 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.
Episode 6 - Eye of the Beholder
Release 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.
Episode 7 - Nick of Time
Release 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.
Episode 8 - The Lateness of the Hour
Release 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.
Episode 9 - The Trouble with Templeton
Release 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.
Episode 10 - A Most Unusual Camera
Release 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.
Episode 11 - The Night of the Meek
Release Date: 1960-12-23
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Episode 12 - Dust
Release 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."
Episode 13 - Back There
Release 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.
Episode 14 - The Whole Truth
Release Date: 1961-01-20
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
Episode 15 - The Invaders
Release Date: 1961-01-27
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
Episode 16 - A Penny For Your Thoughts
Release 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.
Episode 17 - Twenty Two
Release Date: 1961-02-10
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
Episode 18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33
Release Date: 1961-02-24
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Episode 19 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Release Date: 1961-03-03
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Episode 20 - Static
Release 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.
Episode 21 - The Prime Mover
Release 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.
Episode 22 - Long Distance Call
Release Date: 1961-03-31
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
Episode 23 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Release 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.
Episode 24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Release Date: 1961-04-21
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Episode 25 - The Silence
Release Date: 1961-04-28
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Episode 26 - Shadow Play
Release 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.
Episode 27 - The Mind and the Matter
Release 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!
Episode 28 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Release 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…
Episode 29 - The Obsolete Man
Release Date: 1961-06-02
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.