Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (Volume 2)
The Obsolete Man
Living in a futuristic dystopia, Romney Wordsworth is a librarian who is summoned to a hearing with the Chancellor where it will be determined whether he is considered obsolete. The trial finds that his occupation is no longer required and sentences him to a death of his own time in the next forty-eight hours and method of choosing. Romney decides on a live television broadcast of his death, by way of a bomb planted in his apartment. He does however have one last request before he dies which is to summon the Chancellor to the apartment.
Back There
Engineer Peter Corrigan attends the elite Potomac Club with colleagues where they discuss whether events in history could be changed if time travel were possible. Corrigan begins to feel strange and deciding to head home, discovers that he has gone back in time to 1865 just before Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He sets about attempting to stop the events, but is unable to get anyone to listen to him. The situation results in his arrest with only one of the officers believing his story, but subsequently failing to prevent Lincoln's death. However, Corrigan eventually returns to the future to find he did have an impact on the past.
A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
Harmon Gordon is an older, wealthy gentleman who is married to his younger wife Flora. The relationship is rocky, with the gap in ages leading to problems in ability and willing. Harmon's brother Raymond is a scientist who is convinced to produce a chemical which will allow Harmon to become young again, and the plan soon works with Flora delighted at her now younger husband. However, Raymond eventually identifies a problem - Harmon is continuing to become younger and younger such that he will eventually return to being a baby.
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Unsuccessful and insecure gangster Jackie Rhoades waits in a cheap motel room for his boss George. George eventually arrives with a job to shoot and kill a barkeeper who has refused to pay for protection. Begging for another job, Jackie is roughed-up by George before he leaves. Jackie is left with his reflection in the mirror where he attempts to justify the murder to himself. He soon sees his reflection, though it is a confident and self-assured version of himself who he gets into a lengthy argument with. Furthermore, the confident version in the mirror wants to get out into the real world.
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The residents of Maple Street are disturbed by the lights and sounds of a flying object, which is initially put down to a meteor or new type of jet. When the electrical supply also stops working, some neighbours suggest heading downtown to find the source of the problem, though a young child named Tommy suggests that the situation is the work of aliens who walk among them, and do not want anyone to leave the area. As other issues in the neighbourhood crop up, the residents begin to divide into factions and turn on each other.
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
In 1890, Jared Garrity arrives in the town of Happiness, Arizona. He comes with a reputation of being able to reawaken the dead in a town which has a full cemetery and a history of around one death a day. Garrity proves his ability by reawakening a recently run-over dog and sets about offering his service to the townspeople of Happiness. However, despite the delight of some people to have their relatives and friends back, others are worried that problems they thought were long gone may come back into their lives.
Escape Clause
Severe hypochondriac Walter Bedeker complains about any and every health issue, despite his doctors diagnosis that he is in perfect help, while his long-suffering wife Ethel continues to struggle under the pressure caring for him exerts. He is visited by the mysterious Mr Cadwallader who offers the exchange of Walters' soul in exchange for immortality, with a contract being signed containing an escape clause if needed. Beginning to prove his newfound immortality, Walter accidentally causes his wife to fall to her death resulting in his being sentenced to life in prison.
Four O'Clock
Oliver Crangle is an insane fanatic who maintains a list of people he considers to be evil, who are added when they wrong him or do things he disapproves of. Living with his parrot Pete as his only company, he is approached by the wife of a young doctor who begs Oliver to leave her husband alone, after he was unable to save a dying patient. Instead, Crangle decides on permanently ridding the world of evil by enacting a plan to shrink everyone to two-feet tall. Informing various government agencies of his plan, he is soon visited by an FBI agent.
Uncle Simon
Barbara Polk lives with her abusive uncle Simon, despite hating the man who has spent her life haranguing her. Simon meanwhile spends his time in his laboratory which Barbara is forbidden to enter, though an attempt by her results in an argument between the pair, and Simon falling down the stairs to his death. When Simon's lawyer reveals that she will inherit his estate, she discovers that it has the condition that she must remain in the house to look after a robot named Simon, who has all of her uncle's personality.