The Twilight Zone: Season 2
1960 · 29 episodes · ★ 7.1
What Season 2 of The Twilight Zone
The second season of The Twilight Zone airs on CBS on Friday nights, between September 30, 1960 and June 2, 1961, with 29 episodes. Rod Serling once again introduces each story from the Twilight Zone, a place where reality stops working the way it normally does. The protagonists change in every story and run into strange events. A nervous thug comes face to face with himself, a writer suspects his machines are conspiring against him, and a dishonest car salesman buys a vehicle that forces him to tell the whole truth. The conflicts raise moral dilemmas: a genie grants a moneylender four wishes, and a father buys a powder from a charlatan to save his son from the gallows.
Season 2 Episodes
2x01 King Nine Will Not Return
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.
Directed by: Buzz Kulik · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Robert Cummings, Paul Lambert, Gene Lyons, Jenna McMahon
2x02 The Man in the Bottle
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
Directed by: Don Medford · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Olan Soule, Luther Adler, Joseph Ruskin, Vivi Janiss
2x03 Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
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.
Directed by: Douglas Heyes · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: William D. Gordon, Joe Mantell
2x04 A Thing About Machines
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
Directed by: David Orrick McDearmon · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Margarita Cordova, Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips
2x05 The Howling Man
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.
Directing: Douglas Heyes · Writer: Charles Beaumont · Starring: John Carradine, H.M. Wynant, Robin Hughes, Friedrich von Ledebur
2x06 Eye of the Beholder
A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
Directed by: Douglas Heyes · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Donna Douglas, Edson Stroll, Maxine Stuart, George Keymas
2x07 Nick of Time
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
Directed by: Richard L. Bare · Written by: Richard Matheson · Starring: Patricia Breslin, Stafford Repp, Walter Reed, Guy Wilkerson
2x08 The Lateness of the Hour
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.
Directed by: Jack Smight · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Tom Palmer, Mary Gregory
2x09 The Trouble with Templeton
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.
Directed by: Buzz Kulik · Written by: E. Jack Neuman · Starring: Brian Aherne, Sydney Pollack, Dave Willock, Pippa Scott
2x10 A Most Unusual Camera
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.
Directing: John Rich · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Jean Carson, Fred Clark, Adam Williams, Marcel Hillaire
2x11 The Night of the Meek
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Directing: Jack Smight · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: John Fiedler, Art Carney, Meg Wyllie, Burt Mustin
2x12 Dust
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
Directing: Douglas Heyes · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Jon Lormer, John Larch, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Adams
2x13 Back There
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.
Directing: David Orrick McDearmon · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: John Eldredge, Pat O'Malley, Russell Johnson, Paul Hartman
2x14 The Whole Truth
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
Directed by: James Sheldon · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Jack Carson, Loring Smith, George Chandler, Jack Ging
2x15 The Invaders
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
Directing: Douglas Heyes · Writer: Richard Matheson · Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Douglas Heyes
2x16 A Penny for Your Thoughts
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.
Directed by: James Sheldon · Written by: George Clayton Johnson · Starring: Hayden Rorke, Dan Tobin, June Dayton, James Nolan
2x17 Twenty Two
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
Directed by: Jack Smight · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Barbara Nichols, Joseph Sargent, Arlene Martel, Jonathan Harris
2x18 The Odyssey of Flight 33
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Directed by: Jus Addiss · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Betty Garde, Paul Comi, John Anderson, Sandy Kenyon
2x19 Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Directing: John Brahm · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Don Rickles, Douglas Spencer, James Westerfield, Eddie Ryder
2x20 Static
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.
Directing: Buzz Kulik · Writer: Charles Beaumont · Starring: Bob Crane, Alice Pearce, Pat O'Malley, Stephen Talbot
2x21 The Prime Mover
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
Directing: Richard L. Bare · Writers: George Clayton Johnson, Charles Beaumont · Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Dane Clark, Clancy Cooper, Christine White
2x22 Long Distance Call
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
Directing: James Sheldon · Writers: Charles Beaumont, Bill Idelson · Starring: Jenny Maxwell, Patricia Smith, Bill Mumy, Lili Darvas
2x23 A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
Directing: Buzz Kulik · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: John Astin, Edward Platt, John Crawford, Evans Evans
2x24 The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Simon Oakland, Oscar Beregi Jr, John Mitchum, Wallace Rooney
2x25 The Silence
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Directed by: Boris Sagal · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Liam Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Cyril Delevanti, Jonathan Harris
2x26 Shadow Play
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
Directing: John Brahm · Writer: Charles Beaumont · Starring: Dennis Weaver, Bernie Hamilton, Wright King, Harry Townes
2x27 The Mind and the Matter
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!
Directing: Buzz Kulik · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Shelley Berman, Chet Stratton, Jack Grinnage, Robert McCord
2x28 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
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…
Directing: Montgomery Pittman · Writer: Rod Serling · Starring: Bill Erwin, John Archer, Jean Willes, Jack Elam
2x29 The Obsolete Man Season Finale
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.
Directed by: Elliot Silverstein · Written by: Rod Serling · Starring: Harold Innocent, Fritz Weaver, Burgess Meredith, Josip Elic
Season 2 Cast
Robert McCordSheriff7 episodes
Jay OverholtsMan #2 (uncredited)4 episodes
Pat O'MalleyAttendant2 episodes
Barney PhillipsHaley2 episodes
Cyril DelevantiL. J. Smithers2 episodes
Arch JohnsonFireman (uncredited)2 episodes
Patricia BreslinPat CarterEpisode 1
Hayden RorkeSykesEpisode 1
Olan SouleIRS ManEpisode 1
Buddy EbsenJimbo CobbEpisode 1
Agnes MooreheadWomanEpisode 1
Jon LormerMinisterEpisode 1
Don RicklesBettorEpisode 1
Bob CraneDisc Jockey (uncredited)Episode 1
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Season 41963 · 18 ep. · ★ 6.7
Season 51963 · 36 ep. · ★ 6.9Where to Watch Season 2 of The Twilight Zone
It is currently not available on the major streaming platforms.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Season 2 of The Twilight Zone have?
Season 2 of The Twilight Zone has 29 episodes.
When did season 2 of The Twilight Zone premiere?
Premiered on September 30, 1960.
Where to Watch Season 2 of The Twilight Zone?
Currently not available on the major subscription platforms (availability may vary by country).
What is the best episode of Season 2?
According to the audience rating on TMDB, episode 2x06, "Eye of the Beholder", with a 8.5.