The Twilight Zone - Complete Season 2 (1960) (repost)

The second season premiered on September 30, 1960 with "King Nine Will Not Return", Serling's fresh take on the pilot episode "Where Is Everybody?" based on a real-life 1958 news story of the discovery of a crashed World War II B-24 bomber in the Libyan desert.[citation needed] The familiarity of this first story stood in stark contrast to the novelty of the show's new packaging: Bernard Herrmann's stately original theme was replaced by Marius Constant's more jarring and dissonant (and now more-familiar) new guitar-and-bongo theme. The blinking eye was replaced by a more surreal introduction inspired by the new images in Serling's narration (such as "That's the signpost up ahead"), and Serling himself stepped in front of the cameras to present his opening narration, rather than being only a voice-over narrator (as in the first season).

A new sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, replaced the previous year's Kimberly-Clark (as Liggett & Myers would succeed General Foods, in April 1961), and a new network executive, James Aubrey, took over CBS. "Jim Aubrey was a very, very difficult problem for the show", said associate producer Del Reisman. "He was particularly tough on The Twilight Zone because for its time it was a particularly costly half-hour show… Aubrey was real tough on [the show's budget] even when it was a small number of dollars." In a push to keep the show's expenses down, Aubrey ordered that seven fewer episodes be produced than last season and that six of those being produced would be shot on videotape rather than film, a move Serling disliked, calling it "neither fish nor fowl".[14] Two additional episodes filmed in the second season ("The Grave" and "Nothing in the Dark") were held over to the third season.

EPISODES:
1 "King Nine Will Not Return"
2 "The Man in the Bottle"
3 "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"
4 "A Thing About Machines"
5 "The Howling Man"
6 "The Eye of the Beholder"
7 "Nick of Time"
8 "The Lateness of the Hour"
9 "The Trouble with Templeton"
10 "A Most Unusual Camera"
11 "The Night of the Meek"
12 "Dust"
13 "Back There"
14 "The Whole Truth"
15 "The Invaders"
16 "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
17 "Twenty Two"
18 "The Odyssey of Flight 33"
19 "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"
20 "Static"
21 "The Prime Mover"
22 "Long Distance Call"
23 "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"
24 "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"
25 "The Silence"
26 "Shadow Play"
27 "The Mind and the Matter"
28 "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
29 "The Obsolete Man"