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.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Twilight Zone Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness
Sep 27, 1986
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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