The Twilight Zone - Second Season Episodes 1960-1961

King Nine Will Not Return
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik

A downed bomber pilot crash-lands in the desert. When he regains consciousness he cannot find any of his crew members.
CAST: Bob Cummings, Gene Lyons, Seymour Green, Richard Lupino, Paul Lambert, Jenna McMahon.


The Man in the Bottle
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford

An impoverished pawnbroker is granted four wishes by a genie in a bottle. It's not just that his wishes ended up not being what he expected — it's what they did end up being.
CAST: Luther Alder, Joseph Ruskin, Vivi Janiss, Lisa Golm, Olan Soule, Peter Coe, Albert Szabo.


Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes

A small-time hood assigned to kill an old man finds himself confronted by another version of himself in his own living reflection.
CAST: Joe Mantell, William D. Gordon.


A Thing About Machines
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon

A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.
CAST: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips.


The Howling Man
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Douglas Hayes

Taking refuge in a European monastery during a storm, a man hears someone howling and is told it's the Devil who is being held prisoner.
CAST: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Ezelle Poule.


The Eye of the Beholder
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes

In a hospital room, her face completely covered by medical wrappings, a woman waits to see if a last-chance operation on her face has fixed the freakishness that will have her sent to a reservation of outcasts.
CAST: Joanna Hayes, Jennifer Howard, William D. Gordon, Maxine Stuart, Donna Douglas.


Nick of Time
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Richard L. Bare

A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.
CAST: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin.


The Lateness of the Hour
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight

A young woman, bored with the precise, faultless routine of her family's life, persuades her father to dismantle their robot servants.
CAST: Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Mary Gregory.


The Trouble with Templeton
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
Director: Buzz Kulik

A distinguished, aging actor who reflects on the happier days of his youth gets a sobering glimpse of the past.
CAST: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott, Charles S. Carlson, Sydney Pollack.


A Most Unusual Camera
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Rich

A pair of petty thieves find that a camera they have just stolen can predict the future by the pictures it takes.
CAST: Jean Carson, Fred Clark, Adam Williams.


Night of the Meek
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight

Henry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.
CAST: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Meg Wylie, Robert Lieb.


Dust
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes

An unscrupulous traveling salesman sells some "magic dust" he claims will save a man due to hang for killing a little girl during a drunken spree.
CAST: Thomas Gomez, Vladimir Sokoloff, John Alonso, John Larch.


Back There
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon

A man tries to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he finds himself thrust back in time.
CAST: Russell Johnson, Paul Hartman, Bartlett Robinson, John Lasell.


The Whole Truth
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: James Sheldon

The disreputable patter of a used-car dealer changes when he buys a haunted car from an old man and finds he is suddenly unable to lie to his customers.
CAST: Jack Carson, Jack Ging, Arte Johnson, Nan Peterson, George Chandler, Loring Smith.


The Invaders
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Douglas Hayes

A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse. The essentially dialogue-free, one-woman performance by the legendary Agnes Moorehead of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and, later, television's Bewitched, is a tour de force.


A Penny for Your Thoughts
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: James Sheldon

Timid bank clerk Victor Pool discovers that a coin that lands on its edge as he pays for a paper leaves him with the power to read minds.
CAST: Dick York, Dan Tobin, Hayden Rorke, June Dayton, Cyril Delevanti.


Twenty-Two
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an anecdote in Famous Ghost Stories
Director: Jack Smight

A young woman complains of a recurring nightmare in which she always ends up in Room 22 — the hospital morgue.
CAST: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Arline Sax, Fredd Wayne, Norma Connolly, Mary Adams, Wesley Lau, Joe Sargeant, Jay Overholts, Carole Conn.


The Odyssey of Flight 33
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Justus Addiss

A commercial airliner, en route to New York, breaks through the time barrier into the prehistoric past.
CAST: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Harp McGuire, Wayne Heffley, Nancy Rennick, Beverly Brown, Jay Overholt, Betty Garde.


Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brehm

A timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, James Millhollin.


Static
Writer: Charles Beaumont, story by O. Cee Ritch
Director: Buzz Kulik

An old radio picks up signals from the past that unexpectedly rejuvenate a pair of elderly lovers.
CAST: Dean Jagger, Carmen Matthews, Robert Emhardt.


The Prime Mover
Writer: Charles Beaumont, story by George Clayton Johnson
Director: Richard L. Bare

Two men try to make their fortune at Las Vegas from the power one of them has to move inanimate objects.
CAST: Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen, Christine White, Nesdon Booth, Jane Burgess.


Long Distance Call
Writer: Charles Beaumont &William Idelson
Director: James Sheldon

A young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.
CAST: Bill Mumy, Philip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Lili Darvas.


A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik

A 19th-century Western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Miranda Jones, John Crawford, Evan Evans.


The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Justus Addiss

Four thieves plot to hide out with their loot for 100 years in a state of suspended animation.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland, John Mitchum, Lew Gallo.


The Silence
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Segal

A garrulous man, bet half a million dollars that he can't keep silent for one year, goes to bizarre lengths to win the wager.
CAST: Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Jonathan Harris.


Shadow Play
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brehm

A condemned man tries to convince the people around him that everything and everyone is merely part of a recurring nightmare that always ends in his execution.
CAST: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King.


The Mind and the Matter
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik

A book about thought gives a clerk the power to accomplish anything just by willing it, leaving him free to create an ideal world. Or at least his version of it.
CAST: Shelley Berman, Jack Grinnage, Jeane Wood, Chet Stratton.


Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Montgomery Pittman

On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not.
CAST: Morgan Jones, John Archer, Bill Kendis, John Hoyt, Jack Elam, Jean Wiles, Barney Phillips


The Obsolete Man
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein

A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.

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