Overview Director: Don Medford Writers: Rod Serling (creator) Rod Serling (writer) TV Series: "The Twilight Zone" (1959) Original Air Date: 7 October 1960 (Season 2, Episode 2) Plot Outline: A luckless couple stumbles upon fortune when a genie materializes from a bottle in their antique shop. The genie grants them four wishes but warns them, prophetically, to be careful what you wish for.
A Channel for the original series of the Twilight Zone, Season 2! Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations.
Season 2, Episode 29: The Obsolete Man Original Air Date: 2 June 1961 In a totalitarian society, Romney Wordsworth is condemned to death for the crime of being a librarian, and he is subjected to the harangues of the state's Chancellor and his lectures about Wordsworth's obsolescence. Wordsworth, however, makes one final request - that he be allowed to choose his method of execution and that it be televised live to the society. The Chancellor agrees and later visits Wordsworth at his house, where he learns that Wordsworth has had tons of explosives rigged under the house to go off at midnight in full view of national television cameras. But as The Chancellor begins to leave, he finds he has been double-crossed by Wordsworth, and suddenly he must face Romney Wordsworth's terrifying vigil as the clock ticks down to the fateful period of midnight.
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28. The Twilight Zone - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Season 2, Episode 28: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? Original Air Date: 26 May 1961 Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try and determine who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
Season 2, Episode 27: The Mind and the Matter Original Air Date: 12 May 1961 Using the power of mind over matter, Archibald Beechcroft remakes the world to his own specifications.
Season 2, Episode 21: The Prime Mover Original Air Date: 24 March 1961 A compulsive gambler cajoles his friend to use his telekinesis to affect the results of the gambling tables in Las Vegas.
A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother. Original Air Date: 31 March 1961 (Season 2, Episode 22)
A man trapped in a recurring nightmare, in which he is sentenced to death and executed, tries to convince the characters in his dream that they are only figments of his imagination and that they will cease to exist if the execution is carried out. Original Air Date: 5 May 1961 (Season 2, Episode 26)
Annoyed by a club member's constant chatter, a man bets him he cannot remain silent for a year, living in a glass enclosure in the club basement. Original Air Date: 28 April 1961 (Season 2, Episode 25)
After successfully stealing a gold shipment, a group of criminals and their scientist accomplice put themselves in suspended animation in a remote desert cave. When they awaken decades later, complications ensue when their truck is destroyed. Original Air Date: 21 April 1961 (Season 2, Episode 24)
Original Air Date: 7 April 1961 (Season 2, Episode 23) A pioneer from a wagon train in 1847 sets off to find something for his ill son and stumbles into present day New Mexico.
While in the hospital recovering from overwork, Liz Powell keeps dreaming about going down to the hospital morgue. Original Air Date: 10 February 1961 (Season 2, Episode 17)
At a prominent club in Washington, D.C., a socialite argues about whether it would be possible to change history by traveling back in time. When he leaves the club he finds himself in 1865, on the night that President Lincoln will be shot. Original Air Date: 13 January 1961 (Season 2, Episode 13)
Gaining telepathic abilities when his coin lands on its edge bank clerk Hector B. Poole learns about the difference between other people's plans and fantasies. Original Air Date: 3 February 1961 (Season 2, Episode 16)
Passing through the sound barrier a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time. Original Air Date: 24 February 1961 (Season 2, Episode 18)
A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens. Original Air Date: 3 March 1961 (Season 2, Episode 19)
An old radio is taking bitter bachelor Ed Lindsay back to a happier time before what he considers worthless tripe on television when he starts picking up radio programs from the 1930's and 1940's. Original Air Date: 10 March 1961 (Season 2, Episode 20)
A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth! Original Air Date: 20 January 1961 (Season 2, Episode 14)
When a woman investigates a clamor on the roof of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO and little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems. Original Air Date: 27 January 1961 (Season 2, Episode 15)
A nostalgic actor revisits his late wife and friends at their old haunt, only to find that he is now out of place there. Original Air Date: 9 December 1960 (Season 2, Episode 9)
In a tragic, western town, a desperate father begs for clemency as his son is slated to die for an accident he could not have prevented. As the son's final hour draws near, the father is approached by a despicable salesman, who offers to sell him 'magic dust' that will evoke the townsfolk's sympathy. Original Air Date: 6 January 1961 (Season 2, Episode 12)
After a derelict Santa Claus is fired on Christmas Eve, he finds a mysterious bag that gives out presents. With this bag he sets out to fulfill his one wish - to see the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas. Original Air Date: 23 December 1960 (Season 2, Episode 11)
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