A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
The best episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 2 is "King Nine Will Not Return", rated 6.6/10 from 3094 user votes. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and written by Rod Serling. "King Nine Will Not Return" aired on 9/30/1960 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Man in the Bottle".
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.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Rod Serling
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Rod Serling
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.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Rod Serling
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Rod Serling
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.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Charles Beaumont
A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Rod Serling
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Richard Matheson
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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Rod Serling
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.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
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.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Rod Serling
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Rod Serling
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Rod Serling
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.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Rod Serling
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Rod Serling
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Richard Matheson
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.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Rod Serling
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Rod Serling
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Rod Serling
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.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: George Clayton Johnson, Charles Beaumont
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Bill Idelson, Charles Beaumont
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Rod Serling
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Rod Serling
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Rod Serling