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| The Twilight Zone Season 2 : |
| 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. |
| Episode 1 - [King Nine Will Not Return] |
| Details : 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? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Cummings as Capt. James Embry | Paul Lambert as Doctor | Gene Lyons as Psychiatrist | Jenna McMahon as Nurse | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Sep. 30, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [The Man In The Bottle] |
| Details : A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Olan Soule as IRS Man | Luther Adler as Arthur Castle | Joseph Ruskin as Genie | Vivi Janiss as Edna Castle | Lisa Golm as Mrs. Gumley | Director : Don Medford | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 07, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Mantell as Jackie Rhoades | William D. Gordon as George | Director : Douglas Heyes | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 14, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [A Thing About Machines] |
| Details : A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Margarita Cordova as Girl on TV | Richard Haydn as Bartlett Finchley | Barbara Stuart as Edith | Barney Phillips as TV Repairman | Henry Beckman as Policeman | Jay Overholts as Intern | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : David Orrick McDearmon | |
| Air Date : Oct. 28, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [The Howling Man] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Carradine as Brother Jerome | H.M. Wynant as David Ellington | Robin Hughes as Howling Man | Friedrich von Ledebur as Brother Christophorus | Ezelle Poule as Housekeeper | Director : Douglas Heyes | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [The Eye Of The Beholder] |
| Details : A young woman is forced to undergo experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear normal. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Donna Douglas as Janet Tyler (revealed) | Edson Stroll as Walter Smith | Maxine Stuart as Janet Tyler (under bandages) | George Keymas as The Leader | William D. Gordon as Doctor | Joanna Heyes as Nurse #2 - Reception | Director : Douglas Heyes | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Nov. 11, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Nick Of Time] |
| Details : A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Shatner as Bob Wilson | Patricia Breslin as Pat Carter | Stafford Repp as Mechanic | Walter Reed as Desperate Man | Guy Wilkerson as Counterman | Dee Carroll as Desperate Woman | Writer : Richard Matheson | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
| Air Date : Nov. 18, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [The Lateness Of The Hour] |
| Details : Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter however feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Hoyt as Dr. Loren | Irene Tedrow as Mrs. Loren | Inger Stevens as Nan Adams | Tom Palmer as Robert | Mary Gregory as Nelda | Valley Keene as Suzanne | Doris Karnes as Gretchen | Jason Johnson as Jensen | Director : Jack Smight | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Dec. 02, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [The Trouble With Templeton] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brian Aherne as Booth Templeton | Sydney Pollack as Arthur Willis | Dave Willock as Marty | Pippa Scott as Laura Templeton | King Calder as Sid Sperry | Larry J. Blake as Freddie | David Thursby as Eddie | Charles S. Carlson as Barney Flueger | Writer : E. Jack Neuman | Director : Buzz Kulik | |
| Air Date : Dec. 09, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [A Most Unusual Camera] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jean Carson as Paula Diedrich | Fred Clark as Chester Dietrich | Adam Williams as Woodward | Marcel Hillaire as Pierre - Waiter | Director : John Rich | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Dec. 16, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [The Night Of The Meek] |
| Details : A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Fiedler as Mr. Dundee | Art Carney as Henry Corwin | Meg Wyllie as Sister Florence | Burt Mustin as Old Man | Val Avery as The Bartender | Robert P. Lieb as Flaherty | Kay Cousins Johnson as Irate Mother | Director : Jack Smight | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Dec. 23, 1960 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Dust] |
| Details : After selling the rope for a hanging a greedy peddler tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of magic dust. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jon Lormer as Man | John Larch as Sheriff Koch | Thomas Gomez as Peter Sykes | Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Canfield | John A. Alonzo as Luís Gallegos | Vladimir Sokoloff as Gallegos | Paul Genge as John Canfield | Duane Grey as Rogers | Andrea Darvi as Estrelita Gallegos | Doug Heyes Jr. as Farmer Boy | Director : Douglas Heyes | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Jan. 06, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Back There] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Russell Johnson as Prof. Manion | Paul Hartman | John Eldredge | Raymond Bailey as Doctor | Jimmy Lydon | Pat O'Malley as Attendant | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : David Orrick McDearmon | |
| Air Date : Jan. 13, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [The Whole Truth] |
| Details : A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Ging | Arte Johnson | Jack Carson | George Chandler | Loring Smith | Director : James Sheldon | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Jan. 20, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [The Invaders] |
| Details : An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny hostile aliens. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Agnes Moorehead | Douglas Heyes | Director : Douglas Heyes | Writer : Richard Matheson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 27, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [A Penny For Your Thoughts] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hayden Rorke | Dick York as Capt. Phil Riker | Dan Tobin | Cyril Delevanti | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | Director : James Sheldon | |
| Air Date : Feb. 03, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Twenty-Two] |
| Details : Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jonathan Harris | Arlene Martel as Girl in Bar | Barbara Nichols | Joseph Sargent | Director : Jack Smight | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Feb. 10, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [The Odyssey Of Flight 33] |
| Details : A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Anderson as Gabriel | Betty Garde | Paul Comi as Mark Marcusson | Sandy Kenyon | Director : Jus Addiss | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Feb. 24, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Mr Dingle The Strong] |
| Details : Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Don Rickles | Michael Fox as Doctor | Douglas Spencer | James Westerfield | Eddie Ryder | Phil Arnold | Burgess Meredith as Luther Dingle | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Mar. 03, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Static] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bob Crane | Alice Pearce | Pat O'Malley as Mr. Llewellyn | Stephen Talbot | Dean Jagger | Robert Emhardt | Carmen Mathews | Clegg Hoyt | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 10, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [The Prime Mover] |
| Details : Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Buddy Ebsen as Jimbo Cobb | William Keene | Dane Clark as Ace Larsen | Clancy Cooper | Christine White as Kitty Cavanaugh | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | Director : Richard L. Bare | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 24, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [Long Distance Call] |
| Details : A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Abbott | Bill Mumy | Jenny Maxwell | Patricia Smith | Writer : Bill Idelson | Director : James Sheldon | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 31, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 23 - [A Hundred Yards Over The Rim] |
| Details : In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Astin | Edward Platt | Cliff Robertson | John Crawford | Evans Evans | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Apr. 07, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 24 - [The Rip Van Winkle Caper] |
| Details : Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Simon Oakland | John Mitchum | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Director : Jus Addiss | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Apr. 21, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 25 - [The Silence] |
| Details : A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500000. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jonathan Harris | Liam Sullivan as Headmaster | Cyril Delevanti | Franchot Tone as Col. Archie Taylor | Director : Boris Sagal | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Apr. 28, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 26 - [Shadow Play] |
| Details : Trapped in a recurring nightmare a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dennis Weaver | Bernie Hamilton | Harry Townes as Arch Hammer | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : May. 05, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 27 - [The Mind And The Matter] |
| Details : 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! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shelley Berman | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : May. 12, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 28 - [Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up] |
| Details : 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… |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bill Erwin | John Hoyt as Dr. Loren | John Archer | Jean Willes | Barney Phillips as TV Repairman | Jack Elam | Morgan Jones | Gertrude Crampton | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Montgomery Pittman | |
| Air Date : May. 26, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 29 - [The Obsolete Man] |
| Details : In a future state where religion and books have been banned a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Harold Innocent | Fritz Weaver as Chancellor | Burgess Meredith as Romney Wordsworth | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Elliot Silverstein | |
| Air Date : Jun. 02, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |