Season 2

Episode Guide

King Nine Will Not Return

S2 E1
Sep 30, 1960
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane. Where is his crew? And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead?

The Man in the Bottle

S2 E2
Oct 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

S2 E3
Oct 14, 1960
Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a small-time hoodlum nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he might have been - confident, strong... and determined to get out.

A Thing About Machines

S2 E4
Oct 28, 1960
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.

The Howling Man

S2 E5
Nov 4, 1960
During a walking trip of central Europe following WWI, Ellington loses his way. Exhausted, he comes upon a monastery where an insane monk claims he's captured the Devil himself!

The Eye of the Beholder

S2 E6
Nov 11, 1960
A young woman is forced to undergo experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear "normal."

Nick of Time

S2 E7
Nov 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

S2 E8
Dec 2, 1960
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.

The Trouble With Templeton

S2 E9
Dec 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

S2 E10
Dec 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

S2 E11
Dec 23, 1960
Christmas in the Twilight Zone, Art Carney is a forlorn department store Santa who takes to drinking - only to find himself experiencing the nicest Christmas ever!

Dust

S2 E12
Jan 3, 1961
A man is about to be hanged for drunkenly running over a little girl in a decaying town. But when the girl's anguished father flings "magic dust" into the air, a change comes over the squalid village.

Back There

S2 E13
Jan 6, 1961
Russell Johnson is Peter Corrigan, a man who travels back in time to the date of President Lincoln's assassination. Will his presence have any impact at all - can he actually change history?

The Whole Truth

S2 E14
Jan 20, 1961
A special Model A automobile compels used car dealer Harvey Hunnicut to tell only the truth. Consequently, he can't sell a single vehicle on his lot - until he comes up with an unusual marketing idea.

The Invaders

S2 E15
Jan 27, 1961
A flying saucer lands in the attic of an isolated house inhabited by an impoverished woman - who soon becomes panic-stricken as tiny spacemen begin to stalk her!

Penny for Your Thoughts

S2 E16
Feb 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 that you read.

Twenty-Two

S2 E17
Feb 10, 1961
Liz Powell is terrified by a recurring nightmare involving the number 22. Her doctor reassures her that it is just a bad dream, yet Miss Powell is soon to learn differently.

The Odyssey of Flight 33

S2 E18
Feb 24, 1961
Flight 33 picks up a peculiar tailwind and is blown off-course. After apparently correcting the problem, the flight arrives at its destination - a billion years ahead of schedule!

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

S2 E19
Mar 3, 1961
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Static

S2 E20
Mar 10, 1961
Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boarding house where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.

The Prime Mover

S2 E21
Mar 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

S2 E22
Mar 31, 1961
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

S2 E23
Apr 7, 1961
In 1847, a Western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. He returns with much more than just medicine.

Rip Van Winkle Caper

S2 E24
Apr 21, 1961
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars. But even in the future, wealth is still far out of reach for two greedy crooks.

The Silence

S2 E25
Apr 28, 1961
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

Shadow Play

S2 E26
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. Will they ever listen?

The Mind and the Matter

S2 E27
May 12, 1961
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable man to re-create the world exactly as he wants it.

Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up

S2 E28
May 26, 1961
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

S2 E29
Jun 2, 1961
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.