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The Twilight Zone: Season 2

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29 episodes · premiered Sep 30, 1960

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.

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  1. Episode 1: King Nine Will Not Return Sep 30, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 5.8 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.
  2. Episode 2: The Man in the Bottle Oct 7, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 6.9 A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
  3. Episode 3: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room Oct 14, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 6.5 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.
  4. Episode 4: A Thing About Machines Oct 28, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 5.9 A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
  5. Episode 5: The Howling Man Nov 4, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 7.3 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.
  6. Episode 6: Eye of the Beholder Nov 11, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 8.5 A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
  7. Episode 7: Nick of Time Nov 18, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 7.7 A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
  8. Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour Dec 2, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 6.6 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.
  9. Episode 9: The Trouble with Templeton Dec 9, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 6.7 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.
  10. Episode 10: A Most Unusual Camera Dec 16, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 7.4 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.
  11. Episode 11: The Night of the Meek Dec 23, 1960 · 26m · TMDB 7.4 A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
  12. Episode 12: Dust Jan 6, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 6.6 After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
  13. Episode 13: Back There Jan 13, 1961 · 26m 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…
  14. Episode 14: The Whole Truth Jan 20, 1961 · 26m A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
  15. Episode 15: The Invaders Jan 27, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 7.6 An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
  16. Episode 16: A Penny for Your Thoughts Feb 3, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 8.0 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.
  17. Episode 17: Twenty Two Feb 10, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 7.4 Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
  18. Episode 18: The Odyssey of Flight 33 Feb 24, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 6.9 A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
  19. Episode 19: Mr. Dingle, the Strong Mar 3, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 6.4 Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
  20. Episode 20: Static Mar 10, 1961 · 26m 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.
  21. Episode 21: The Prime Mover Mar 24, 1961 · 26m Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
  22. Episode 22: Long Distance Call Mar 31, 1961 · 26m A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
  23. Episode 23: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim Apr 7, 1961 · 26m In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
  24. Episode 24: The Rip Van Winkle Caper Apr 21, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 7.1 Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
  25. Episode 25: The Silence Apr 28, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 8.1 A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
  26. Episode 26: Shadow Play May 5, 1961 · 26m Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
  27. Episode 27: The Mind and the Matter May 12, 1961 · 26m 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!
  28. Episode 28: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? May 26, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 8.0 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…
  29. Episode 29: The Obsolete Man Jun 2, 1961 · 26m · TMDB 7.6 In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.