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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 2

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 1 - King Nine Will Not Return
    6.5/10(3482 votes)

    #1 - King Nine Will Not Return

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  2. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 2 - The Man in the Bottle
    7.4/10(3671 votes)

    #2 - The Man in the Bottle

    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.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  3. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 3 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
    6.6/10(3290 votes)

    #3 - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

    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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  4. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 4 - A Thing About Machines
    6.4/10(3248 votes)

    #4 - A Thing About Machines

    S2:E4

    A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.

    Director:David Orrick McDearmon
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  5. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 5 - The Howling Man
    8.2/10(4763 votes)

    #5 - The Howling Man

    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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  6. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 6 - Eye of the Beholder
    9.1/10(7287 votes)

    #6 - Eye of the Beholder

    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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  7. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 7 - Nick of Time
    8.3/10(4786 votes)

    #7 - Nick of Time

    S2:E7

    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

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  8. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 8 - The Lateness of the Hour
    7.1/10(3307 votes)

    #8 - The Lateness of the Hour

    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.

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  9. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 9 - The Trouble with Templeton
    7.1/10(3158 votes)

    #9 - The Trouble with Templeton

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:E. Jack Neuman

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  10. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 10 - A Most Unusual Camera
    7.5/10(3638 votes)

    #10 - A Most Unusual Camera

    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.

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  11. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 11 - The Night of the Meek
    7.9/10(4204 votes)

    #11 - The Night of the Meek

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  12. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 12 - Dust
    6.9/10(3110 votes)

    #12 - Dust

    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."

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  13. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 13 - Back There
    7.5/10(3319 votes)

    #13 - Back There

    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.

    Director:David Orrick McDearmon
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  14. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 14 - The Whole Truth
    6.4/10(2971 votes)

    #14 - The Whole Truth

    S2:E14

    A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  15. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 15 - The Invaders
    8.1/10(4684 votes)

    #15 - The Invaders

    S2:E15

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

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  16. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 16 - A Penny for Your Thoughts
    8.0/10(3733 votes)

    #16 - A Penny for Your Thoughts

    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.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  17. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 17 - Twenty Two
    7.7/10(3700 votes)

    #17 - Twenty Two

    S2:E17

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

    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  18. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33
    7.8/10(3880 votes)

    #18 - The Odyssey of Flight 33

    S2:E18

    A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  19. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 19 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong
    6.5/10(3105 votes)

    #19 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong

    S2:E19

    Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  20. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 20 - Static
    6.7/10(2920 votes)

    #20 - Static

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  21. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 21 - The Prime Mover
    7.0/10(2879 votes)

    #21 - The Prime Mover

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writers:George Clayton Johnson, Charles Beaumont

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  22. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 22 - Long Distance Call
    7.5/10(3426 votes)

    #22 - Long Distance Call

    S2:E22

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

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writers:Charles Beaumont, Bill Idelson

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  23. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 23 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
    8.1/10(3772 votes)

    #23 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

    S2:E23

    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

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  24. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
    7.6/10(3219 votes)

    #24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    S2:E24

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

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  25. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 25 - The Silence
    8.3/10(3902 votes)

    #25 - The Silence

    S2:E25

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

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Rod Serling

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"King Nine Will Not Return" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 2. It scored 6.5/10 based on 3482 votes. Directed by Buzz Kulik and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 9/30/1960. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Man in the Bottle".