The Twilight Zone

The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 2

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Every episode of The Twilight Zone Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 2!

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Episodes
29
Avg. Rating
7.5
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  1. 9.1/10(6.8k votes)

    #1 - Eye of the Beholder

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    S2:E6

    A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  2. 8.7/10(4.7k votes)

    #2 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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    S2:E28

    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…

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  3. 8.6/10(4.5k votes)

    #3 - The Obsolete Man

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    S2:E29

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

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  4. 8.3/10(4.4k votes)

    #4 - Nick of Time

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    S2:E7

    A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.

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  5. 8.3/10(3.6k votes)

    #5 - The Silence

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    S2:E25

    A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  6. 8.2/10(4.4k votes)

    #6 - The Howling Man

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    S2:E5

    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.

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  8. 8.1/10(4.4k votes)

    #7 - The Invaders

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    S2:E15

    An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

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  9. 8.1/10(3.5k votes)

    #8 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

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    S2:E23

    In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
  10. 8.1/10(3.3k votes)

    #9 - Shadow Play

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    S2:E26

    Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

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  11. 8.0/10(3.5k votes)

    #10 - A Penny For Your Thoughts

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    S2:E16

    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.

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  12. 7.9/10(3.9k votes)

    #11 - The Night of the Meek

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    S2:E11

    A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  13. 7.8/10(3.6k votes)

    #12 - The Odyssey of Flight 33

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    S2:E18

    A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
  14. 7.7/10(3.4k votes)

    #13 - Twenty Two

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    S2:E17

    Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  15. 7.6/10(3.0k votes)

    #14 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper

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    S2:E24

    Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
  16. 7.5/10(3.4k votes)

    #15 - A Most Unusual Camera

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    S2:E10

    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.

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    Director:John Rich
  17. 7.5/10(3.1k votes)

    #16 - Back There

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    S2:E13

    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.

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  18. 7.5/10(3.2k votes)

    #17 - Long Distance Call

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    S2:E22

    A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

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  19. 7.4/10(3.4k votes)

    #18 - The Man in the Bottle

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    S2:E2

    A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.

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    Director:Don Medford
  20. 7.1/10(3.1k votes)

    #19 - The Lateness of the Hour

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    S2:E8

    Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  21. 7.1/10(2.9k votes)

    #20 - The Trouble with Templeton

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    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
  22. 7.0/10(2.7k votes)

    #21 - The Prime Mover

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    S2:E21

    Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

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  23. 6.9/10(2.9k votes)

    #22 - Dust

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    S2:E12

    After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  24. 6.7/10(2.7k votes)

    #23 - Static

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    S2:E20

    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.

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  25. 6.6/10(3.2k votes)

    #24 - King Nine Will Not Return

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    S2:E1

    A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
  26. 6.6/10(3.1k votes)

    #25 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

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    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Eye of the Beholder" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 2. It scored 9.1/10 based on 6759 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 11/11/1960. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".