The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 2)

Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	29
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 30, 1960 – June 2, 1961
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The second season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 30, 1960 to June 2, 1961. There are 29 episodes.

Intro

This season debuted the theme music by Marius Constant most often associated with The Twilight Zone, replacing the first season music written by Bernard Herrmann. The graphics used for the intro were a hybrid of the two sets of graphics used for the first season, with some slight modifications to Rod Serling's narration. For the first three episodes Serling's narration went as follows:

"You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop—The Twilight Zone."

For the subsequent episodes some phrases were added, with the same set of graphics:

"You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone."^[1]

This opening was added to some first season episodes that were aired as repeats during the summer of 1961. In most of these Herrmann's theme music continued to be played for the closing credits.

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"King Nine Will Not Return"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	September 30, 1960 (1960-09-30)	173-3639
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash (Robert Cummings) cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead.
38	2	"The Man in the Bottle"	Don Medford	Rod Serling	October 7, 1960 (1960-10-07)	173-3638
A genie (Joseph Ruskin) grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker (Luther Adler) and his wife (Vivi Janiss).
39	3	"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	October 14, 1960 (1960-10-14)	173-3641
A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell)) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.
40	4	"A Thing About Machines"	David Orrick McDearmon	Rod Serling	October 28, 1960 (1960-10-28)	173-3645
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
41	5	"The Howling Man"	Douglas Heyes	Charles Beaumont	November 4, 1960 (1960-11-04)	173-3642
A man (H.M. Wynant) lost in a storm finds a monastery where the monks (John Carradine, Frederic Ledebur) claim a howling prisoner (Robin Hughes) is the Devil himself.
42	6	"Eye of the Beholder" "The Private World of Darkness"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	November 11, 1960 (1960-11-11)	173-3640
A woman (Maxine Stuart) wrapped in bandages after facial surgery hopes that she will no longer be ugly.
43	7	"Nick of Time"	Richard L. Bare	Richard Matheson	November 18, 1960 (1960-11-18)	173-3643
A superstitious newlywed (William Shatner) becomes convinced, in spite of the protests of his bride (Patricia Breslin), that a Fortune-telling machine's predictions are quite accurate.
44	8	"The Lateness of the Hour"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling	December 2, 1960 (1960-12-02)	173-3652
A woman (Inger Stevens) disapproves of the robot servants of her father (John Hoyt).
45	9	"The Trouble with Templeton"	Buzz Kulik	E. Jack Neuman	December 9, 1960 (1960-12-09)	173-3649
A Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) yearning for the days when his wife (Pippa Scott) was alive gets his wish.
46	10	"A Most Unusual Camera"	John Rich	Rod Serling	December 16, 1960 (1960-12-16)	173-3606
A thieving couple (Fred Clark, Jean Carson) discover that a camera that they have stolen takes pictures of the future.
47	11	"The Night of the Meek"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling	December 23, 1960 (1960-12-23)	173-3663
A drunken department store Santa Claus (Art Carney) is fired by his boss (John Fiedler) on Christmas Eve and then finds a sack that gives people anything they want.
48	12	"Dust"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	January 6, 1961 (1961-01-06)	173-3653
In the Old West, the desperate father (Vladimir Sokoloff) of a condemned man (John A. Alonzo) buys "magic dust" from a peddler (Thomas Gomez) to save his son.
49	13	"Back There"	David Orrick McDearmon	Rod Serling	January 13, 1961 (1961-01-13)	173-3648
A professor (Russell Johnson) travels through time to the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to change history.
50	14	"The Whole Truth"	James Sheldon	Rod Serling	January 20, 1961 (1961-01-20)	173-3666
A used-car dealer (Jack Carson) is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man (George Chandler) who says it is haunted.
51	15	"The Invaders"	Douglas Heyes	Richard Matheson	January 27, 1961 (1961-01-27)	173-3646
A woman (Agnes Moorehead) living alone in a rural house is stalked by tiny beings from another planet.
52	16	"A Penny for Your Thoughts"	James Sheldon	George Clayton Johnson	February 3, 1961 (1961-02-03)	173-3650
When a coin lands on its edge, a bank clerk (Dick York) gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts – and soon learns that you cannot always believe what you hear.
53	17	"Twenty-Two"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling Based on an Anecdote from: Bennett Cerf's "Famous Ghost Stories"	February 10, 1961 (1961-02-10)	173-3664
A dancer (Barbara Nichols) hospitalized for exhaustion has a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a sinister nurse (Arlene Martel).
54	18	"The Odyssey of Flight 33"	Jus Addiss	Rod Serling	February 24, 1961 (1961-02-24)	173-3651
A strange increase in speed causes a jet airliner to travel back in time.
55	19	"Mr. Dingle, the Strong"	John Brahm	Rod Serling	March 3, 1961 (1961-03-03)	173-3644
A meek vacuum cleaner salesman (Burgess Meredith) is given incredible strength by a two-headed Martian (Douglas Spencer, Michael Fox) as part of an experiment.
56	20	"Static"	Buzz Kulik	Charles Beaumont Based on a Story by: OCee Rich	March 10, 1961 (1961-03-10)	173-3665
A radio allows an old man (Dean Jagger) to listen to programs from his past.
57	21	"The Prime Mover"	Richard L. Bare	Charles Beaumont	March 24, 1961 (1961-03-24)	173-3647
A gambler (Dane Clark) uses the telekinetic powers of his friend (Buddy Ebsen) to win big in Las Vegas.
58	22	"Long Distance Call"	James Sheldon	Charles Beaumont and William Idelson	March 31, 1961 (1961-03-31)	173-3667
A boy (Bill Mumy) talks with his dead grandmother (Lili Darvas) on the toy telephone she gave him before she died.
59	23	"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	April 7, 1961 (1961-04-07)	173-3654
In the year 1847, a pioneer (Cliff Robertson) traveling west with his family and friends scouts ahead for food and water and finds himself in the mid-20th century.
60	24	"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"	Jus Addiss	Rod Serling	April 21, 1961 (1961-04-21)	173-3655
A gang of gold thieves (Oscar Beregi, Jr., John Mitchum, Simon Oakland, Lew Gallo) use suspended animation chambers, set to revive them in a hundred years, to evade the authorities.
61	25	"The Silence"	Boris Sagal	Rod Serling	April 28, 1961 (1961-04-28)	173-3658
An aristocratic club member (Franchot Tone) bets that a talkative acquaintance (Liam Sullivan) cannot stay silent for an entire year.
62	26	"Shadow Play"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	May 5, 1961 (1961-05-05)	173-3657
A man (Dennis Weaver) convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just a dream.
63	27	"The Mind and the Matter"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	May 12, 1961 (1961-05-12)	173-3659
A man (Shelley Berman) uses the power of concentration to remake the world in his image.
64	28	"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"	Montgomery Pittman	Rod Serling	May 26, 1961 (1961-05-26)	173-3660
State troopers (John Archer, Morgan Jones) investigating a UFO sighting track footprints to a diner, where they try to determine which one of seven bus passengers is really a Martian.
65	29	"The Obsolete Man"	Elliot Silverstein	Rod Serling	June 2, 1961 (1961-06-02)	173-3661
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian (Burgess Meredith) is declared obsolete and makes rather unusual requests to the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) as to the manner of his execution.

References

↑ TV.com episode list

[1] TV.com episode list

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v t e The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes
Season 1	"Where Is Everybody?" "One for the Angels" "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" "Walking Distance" "Escape Clause" "The Lonely" "Time Enough at Last" "Perchance to Dream" "Judgment Night" "And When the Sky Was Opened" "What You Need" "The Four of Us Are Dying" "Third from the Sun" "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" "The Hitch-Hiker" "The Fever" "The Last Flight" "The Purple Testament" "Elegy" "Mirror Image" "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" "A World of Difference" "Long Live Walter Jameson" "People Are Alike All Over" "Execution" "The Big Tall Wish" "A Nice Place to Visit" "Nightmare as a Child" "A Stop at Willoughby" "The Chaser" "A Passage for Trumpet" "Mr. Bevis" "The After Hours" "The Mighty Casey" "A World of His Own"
Season 2	"King Nine Will Not Return" "The Man in the Bottle" "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" "A Thing About Machines" "The Howling Man" "The Eye of the Beholder" "Nick of Time" "The Lateness of the Hour" "The Trouble with Templeton" "A Most Unusual Camera" "The Night of the Meek" "Dust" "Back There" "The Whole Truth" "The Invaders" "A Penny for Your Thoughts" "Twenty Two" "The Odyssey of Flight 33" "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" "Static" "The Prime Mover" "Long Distance Call" "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" "The Silence" "Shadow Play" "The Mind and the Matter" "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" "The Obsolete Man"
Season 3	"Two" "The Arrival" "The Shelter" "The Passersby" "A Game of Pool" "The Mirror" "The Grave" "It's a Good Life" "Deaths-Head Revisited" "The Midnight Sun" "Still Valley" "The Jungle" "Once Upon a Time" "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" "A Quality of Mercy" "Nothing in the Dark" "One More Pallbearer" "Dead Man's Shoes" "The Hunt" "Showdown with Rance McGrew" "Kick the Can" "A Piano in the House" "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" "To Serve Man" "The Fugitive" "Little Girl Lost" "Person or Persons Unknown" "The Little People" "Four O'Clock" "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" "The Trade-Ins" "The Gift" "The Dummy" "Young Man's Fancy" "I Sing the Body Electric" "Cavender Is Coming" "The Changing of the Guard"
Season 4	"In His Image" "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" "Valley of the Shadow" "He's Alive" "Mute" "Death Ship" "Jess-Belle" "Miniature" "Printer's Devil" "No Time Like the Past" "The Parallel" "I Dream of Genie" "The New Exhibit" "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" "On Thursday We Leave for Home" "Passage on the Lady Anne" "The Bard"
Season 5	"In Praise of Pip" "Steel" "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" "A Kind of a Stopwatch" "The Last Night of a Jockey" "Living Doll" "The Old Man in the Cave" "Uncle Simon" "Probe 7, Over and Out" "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" "Ring-a-Ding Girl" "You Drive" "The Long Morrow" "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" "Black Leather Jackets" "Night Call" "From Agnes—With Love" "Spur of the Moment" "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "Queen of the Nile" "What's in the Box" "The Masks" "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" "Sounds and Silences" "Caesar and Me" "The Jeopardy Room" "Stopover in a Quiet Town" "The Encounter" "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" "The Brain Center at Whipple's" "Come Wander with Me" "The Fear" "The Bewitchin' Pool"

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