The Twilight Zone - Season 2

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King Nine Will Not Return

1 - King Nine Will Not Return

Air Date: September 30, 1960

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

2 - The Man in the Bottle

Air Date: October 7, 1960

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

3 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

Air Date: October 14, 1960

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

4 - A Thing About Machines

Air Date: October 28, 1960

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

The Howling Man

5 - The Howling Man

Air Date: November 4, 1960

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

6 - Eye of the Beholder

Air Date: November 11, 1960

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

7 - Nick of Time

Air Date: November 18, 1960

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

8 - The Lateness of the Hour

Air Date: December 2, 1960

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

9 - The Trouble with Templeton

Air Date: December 9, 1960

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

10 - A Most Unusual Camera

Air Date: December 16, 1960

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

11 - The Night of the Meek

Air Date: December 23, 1960

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

Dust

12 - Dust

Air Date: January 6, 1961

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

13 - Back There

Air Date: January 13, 1961

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

14 - The Whole Truth

Air Date: January 20, 1961

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

The Invaders

15 - The Invaders

Air Date: January 27, 1961

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

A Penny for Your Thoughts

16 - A Penny for Your Thoughts

Air Date: February 3, 1961

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

17 - Twenty Two

Air Date: February 10, 1961

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

The Odyssey of Flight 33

18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33

Air Date: February 24, 1961

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

19 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Air Date: March 3, 1961

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Static

20 - Static

Air Date: March 10, 1961

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

21 - The Prime Mover

Air Date: March 24, 1961

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

22 - Long Distance Call

Air Date: March 31, 1961

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

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

23 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Air Date: April 7, 1961

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

24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Air Date: April 21, 1961

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

The Silence

25 - The Silence

Air Date: April 28, 1961

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

Shadow Play

26 - Shadow Play

Air Date: May 5, 1961

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

27 - The Mind and the Matter

Air Date: May 12, 1961

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?

28 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

Air Date: May 26, 1961

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

29 - The Obsolete Man

Air Date: June 2, 1961

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