The Twilight Zone: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Twilight Zone Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
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The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness
Sep 27, 1986 · 49 min
An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother. A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, whi
What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita
Oct 4, 1986 · 48 min
Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. This episode is a cruel "fountain of youth" spin-off. A fortyish reporter is at risk of losing
The Storyteller / Nightsong
Oct 11, 1986 · 48 min
In the early 20th century a young woman takes a job as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. One of her students, Mica, secretly takes extra books home to read. When the teacher c
The After Hours / Lost and Found / The World Next Door
Oct 18, 1986 · 46 min
A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours... A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is re
The Toys of Caliban
Dec 4, 1986 · 23 min
An elderly husband and wife live in terror of their son, a boy who has the power to summon anything he can conceive. They are forced to limit what he sees and reads, since anything
The Convict's Piano
Dec 11, 1986 · 23 min
A man in prison who insists that he is innocent of a crime discovers a piano that transports him to the old days of gangsters.
The Road Less Traveled
Dec 18, 1986 · 25 min
A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.
The Card / The Junction
Feb 21, 1987 · 46 min
A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments. A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and the
Joy Ride / Shelter Skelter / Private Channel
May 21, 1987 · 47 min
Two teenage boys and their girlfriends steal a recently deceased man's classic car. While they are on a joyride, they accidentally kill a policeman. A survivalist traps himself in
Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth
Jul 10, 1987 · 47 min
A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by "Prince", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to
Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married
Jul 17, 1987 · 46 min
In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and doesn't approve of their l