The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone season 2
Every episode of The Twilight Zone season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone season 2!
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
#1 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/26/1961
State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object to a diner where they try to determine which of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a Martian.
#2 - The Lateness of the Hour
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1960
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.
#3 - The Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1960
A young woman undergoes ""experimental treatments"" in an attempt to make her appear ""normal"".
#4 - Nick of Time
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1960
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
#5 - Dust
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1961
After selling the rope for a hanging, a conscienceless peddler tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust".
#6 - The Invaders
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1961
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
#7 - The Obsolete Man
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/2/1961
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian (Burgess Meridith) is judged obsolete by the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) and sentenced to death.
#8 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/21/1961
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
#9 - The Silence
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/28/1961
An aristocratic club member bets that a talkative acquaintance cannot stay silent for an entire year.
#10 - Back There
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1961
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 somehow traveled back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. Knowing what is about to happen, he tries to warn everyone at Ford's Theater before it's too late.
#11 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/7/1961
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
#12 - A Most Unusual Camera
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/1960
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.
#13 - A Thing About Machines
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1960
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
#14 - A Penny for Your Thoughts
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1961
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 you read.
#15 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/1961
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
#16 - The Mind and the Matter
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/12/1961
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker (Shelley Berman) to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
#17 - The Howling Man
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1960
A man, on a walking trip of Europe, gets caught in a storm. He finds remote monastery that contains a prisoner.
#18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1961
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
#19 - The Prime Mover
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/1961
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner (Buddy Ebsen) has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
#20 - The Man in the Bottle
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1960
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
#21 - Static
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1961
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.
#22 - Long Distance Call
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/31/1961
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
#23 - The Night of the Meek
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/23/1960
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
#24 - Shadow Play
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/5/1961
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, Adam Grant tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
#25 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1960
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.