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The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness
Sat, Sep 27, 198660 mins
"The Once and Future King": Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin finds himself transported back to Elvis' time after a car accident. "A Saucer of Loneliness": Shy, lonely Margaret receives a private message from a flying saucer.
Episode 2
What Are Friends For?/Aqua Vita
Sat, Oct 4, 198660 mins
Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary; Television newscaster Christie Copperfield drinks a mysterious youth potion.
Episode 3
The Storyteller/Nightsong
Sat, Oct 11, 198649 mins
A retired teacher uncovers the truth about a compulsive storyteller; Disc jockey Andrea Fields plays an obscure record made by her lost lover Simon Locke.
Episode 4
The After Hours/Lost and Found/The World Next Door
Sat, Oct 18, 1986
The After Hours: Marsha Cole detects shadowy figures and mysterious voices around her during a trip to a local shopping mall. Lost and Found: College student Jennifer Templeton finds out why her possessions have been vanishing. The World Next Door: Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world.
Episode 5
The Toys of Caliban
Thu, Dec 4, 1986
Ernie Ross and his wife Mary live with their son Toby in a house with boarded up windows, no television, and all books and magazines locked up and covered by sheets. Its dinnertime, and Toby (who is obviously mentally challenged) doesn't want to finish his vegetables, he wants donuts. Ernie finally gives in, but before he can show Toby a picture of donuts, Toby shouts "Bring!" and donuts magically appear. This is alarming to Ernie and Mary, because he can now remember the donuts and conjure them up without seeing a picture of them first. Later that night, Toby is rushed to the hospital with a severe stomach ache - apparently he has been conjuring donuts - all the donuts he can eat and more, in secret in his room. After his stomach is pumped and he is in a hospital bed, the nurse is distressed when Ernie takes away a copy of Time Magazine left in the room, not only refusing to let Toby see it, but refusing to let Toby even look out the window. A social worker is called, but before she can arrive Ernie and Mary steal Toby away to the safety of home. Alone in his room, Toby holds out his hands and says "Bring!", and the magazine appears. He starts gleefully paging through the magazine. Meanwhile, Ernie and Mary are trying to find a way out of the escalating situation when Mary suddenly clutches at her chest, screams and dies of an apparent heart attack - Ernie flies into Toby's room and finds him with the magazine open to a picture of a human heart, and Toby is all over blood with his mother's heart in his hands. The next day, Ernie has buried Mary in the back yard, amongst Toby's other conjures - living things that Toby brings forth arrive dead, and are summarily buried. Amidst this tragedy, the social worker has found the family and demands to see Toby. Ernie tries to explain what's happening, even going so far to allow Toby to bring forth a suit of armor by showing Toby a picture of it - but the social worker thinks its a sick magic trick and demands to remove Toby from the house - the commotion upsets Toby who calls for his mother, whose rotting corpse suddenly appears. Ernie manages to force the social worker out of the house, and she begins pounding on the doors and screaming to be let in, with a backdrop of approaching police sirens. Ernie decides its time to end it all, and he gets a book from under lock and key and sits down with Toby to look at the pretty pictures - including a pretty picture of an explosion, which Toby obligingly brings forth, blowing up the house along with themselves.
Episode 6
The Convict's Piano
Thu, Dec 11, 1986
Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.
Episode 7
The Road Less Travelled
Thu, Dec 18, 198645 mins
Vietnam-era draft dodger Jeff McDowell sees something familiar about a wheelchair-bound man who has appeared in his house unexpectedly.
Episode 8
The Card/The Junction
Sat, Feb 21, 1987
"The Card": Severe penalties await shopper Linda Wolfe when she fails to pay her credit card bills on time. "The Junction": John Parker and Ray Dobson are trapped inside the local mine. But when one is rescued, the other disappears.
Episode 9
Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel
Thu, May 21, 1987
"Joy Ride": The joy ride that two couples take in a stolen car is disrupted by the car's deceased owner, who isn't done with the car yet. "Shelter Skelter": Two men race to a private fallout shelter at the onset of a nuclear blast. For months, they battle cabin fever and loneliness until one decides to venture out of the shelter and faces a horrific landscape of destruction and darkness - yet everything is not as it may seem. "Private Channel": An accident turns an obnoxious young man's radio headset into a receiver of other people's thoughts.
Episode 10
Time and Teresa Golowitz/Voices in the Earth
Fri, Jul 10, 198760 mins
"Time and Teresa Golowitz": Offered any wish by the Devil at his death, a musician travels back in time to make love to a girl as he regretted not doing before, but then learns one of the guests committed suicide that night. "Voices in the Earth": Professor Donald Knowles travels back to Earth with other members of an expedition, and is deeply affected by the Earthlings of centuries earlier.
Episode 11
Song of the Younger World/The Girl I Married
Fri, Jul 17, 1987
"Song of the Younger World": In 1916, reform school inmate Tanner Smith tempts fate by falling in love with puritanical Warden Mordecai Hawkline's daughter Amy. "The Girl I Married": Middle-aged corporate lawyer Ira Richman misses young Valerie, the girl he married twenty years ago and is surprised to see her materialize.