One Step Beyond
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
Seasons
1. The Bride Possessed
Air Date: 1959-01-20
Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wide-eyed, Louisiana-drawling wife Sally suddenly becomes a determined and demanding woman with no accent who denies even knowing him.
2. Night of April 14th
Air Date: 1959-01-27
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
3. Emergency Only
Air Date: 1959-02-03
A set of circumstances outside the norm.
4. The Dark Room
Air Date: 1959-02-10
A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.
5. Twelve Hours to Live
Air Date: 1959-02-17
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
6. Epilogue
Air Date: 1959-02-24
A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.
7. The Dream
Air Date: 1959-03-03
In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.
8. Premonition
Air Date: 1959-03-10
Forewarned is forearmed.
9. The Dead Part of the House
Air Date: 1959-03-17
A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.
10. The Vision
Air Date: 1959-03-24
In the trenches in WWI, soldiers as usual are dying like flies as expected. All of a sudden the French troops drop their arms and walk very serenely away from the front. Hearing of this the generals bring them up on charges of dissertion, a capital crime. Tremaine is the advocate for their case. They don't seem to want to defend themselves for their inexplicable behavior, not in a way that makes sense. While waiting for the fateful morn, he seeks out a bottle of something special that they request as a last toast. Beckoned to the cottage of a little French boy's family, they are set upon by a German who recounts similar stories of walking away from the front all at the same time on the German side. Rushing back to HQ, Tremaine succeeds in staying the sentence at the last moment, as the officers confirm the veracity of the stories, a mystical event.
11. The Devil's Laughter
Air Date: 1959-03-31
The condemned man's not for hanging.
12. The Return of Mitchell Campion
Air Date: 1959-04-07
A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the hospital at the time of the supposed visit...
13. The Navigator
Air Date: 1959-04-14
The crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship find that somebody has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mute, soaking wet Oriental whom they clap in irons. The alteration in course leads them to rescue survivors of a ship sunk by an ice berg, though that ship's navigator is dead and is the spitting image of the Oriental, who has mysteriously disappeared.
14. The Secret
Air Date: 1959-04-21
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
15. The Aerialist
Air Date: 1959-04-28
An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.
16. The Burning Girl
Air Date: 1959-05-05
Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.
17. The Haunted U-Boat
Air Date: 1959-05-12
While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.
18. The Image of Death
Air Date: 1959-05-19
""Let her paint an inch thick...""
19. The Captain's Guests
Air Date: 1959-05-26
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
20. Echo
Air Date: 1959-06-02
A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.
21. Front Runner
Air Date: 1959-06-09
A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.
22. The Riddle
Air Date: 1959-06-16
An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.
1. Delusion
Air Date: 1959-09-15
A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.
2. Ordeal on Locust Street
Air Date: 1959-09-22
A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.
3. Brainwave
Air Date: 1959-10-06
During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .
4. Doomsday
Air Date: 1959-10-13
A Scottish earl executes his son's lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women places a curse on the earl's family. Hundreds of years later, the current earl of the family lives in fear of this curse – because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .
5. Night of the Kill
Air Date: 1959-10-20
Under cover of darkness.
6. The Inheritance
Air Date: 1959-10-27
A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond necklace inflicts a horrible punishment on the women who try to wear it.
7. The Open Window
Air Date: 1959-11-03
On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempted suicide by a young woman in the adjacent building. He rushes next door to save her . . . but he finds the apartment empty! Later, when the exact same vision is repeated, he begins to doubt his sanity.
8. Message from Clara
Air Date: 1959-11-10
An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.
9. Forked Lightning
Air Date: 1959-11-17
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
10. Reunion
Air Date: 1959-11-24
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
11. Dead Ringer
Air Date: 1959-12-01
A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .
12. The Stone Cutter
Air Date: 1959-12-08
A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
13. Father Image
Air Date: 1959-12-15
Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand why he never sold the place, until an accident causes Dan to go back in time and discover the reason.
14. Make Me Not a Witch
Air Date: 1959-12-22
A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.
15. The Hand
Air Date: 1959-12-29
""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
16. The Justice Tree
Air Date: 1960-01-05
Matters of life and death.
17. Earthquake
Air Date: 1960-01-12
The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
18. The Forests of the Night
Air Date: 1960-01-19
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
19. Call from Tomorrow
Air Date: 1960-01-26
Don't call us, we'll call you.
20. Who Are You?
Air Date: 1960-02-02
""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
21. The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
Air Date: 1960-02-09
""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)
22. The Lovers
Air Date: 1960-02-16
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
23. Vanishing Point
Air Date: 1960-02-23
Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he's accused of murdering her.
24. The Mask
Air Date: 1960-03-01
""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
25. The Haunting
Air Date: 1960-03-08
The bridegroom kills the best man.
26. The Explorer
Air Date: 1960-03-15
An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the region's ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?
27. The Clown
Air Date: 1960-03-22
A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.
28. I Saw You Tomorrow
Air Date: 1960-04-05
""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs
29. Encounter
Air Date: 1960-04-12
Without a plane, a pilot appears.
30. The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
Air Date: 1960-04-19
Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.
31. The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
Air Date: 1960-04-26
Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with assisting in the capture of real-life serial killers. Hurkos himself finally appears on screen.
32. Delia
Air Date: 1960-05-03
While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times they've met before. The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.
33. The Visitor
Air Date: 1960-05-10
A man returns to his past.
34. Gypsy
Air Date: 1960-05-17
A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.
35. Contact
Air Date: 1960-05-24
A hands-on approach.
36. The Lonely Room
Air Date: 1960-05-31
Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.
37. House of the Dead
Air Date: 1960-06-07
A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic message on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the ""House of the Dead"" . . .
38. Goodbye Grandpa
Air Date: 1960-06-14
An old railroad man keeps his promise.
39. The Storm
Air Date: 1960-06-21
no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett
1. Tidal Wave
Air Date: 1960-08-30
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.
2. Anniversary of a Murder
Air Date: 1960-09-27
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .
3. The Death Waltz
Air Date: 1960-10-04
The Merry Widow?
4. The Return
Air Date: 1960-10-11
These were the swift to harry...
5. If You See Sally
Air Date: 1960-10-18
Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.
6. Moment of Hate
Air Date: 1960-10-25
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.
7. To Know the End
Air Date: 1960-11-01
...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.
8. The Trap
Air Date: 1960-11-15
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.
9. The Voice
Air Date: 1960-11-22
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats
10. The Promise
Air Date: 1960-11-29
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost
11. Tonight at 12:17
Air Date: 1960-12-06
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
12. Where Are They?
Air Date: 1960-12-13
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.
13. Legacy of Love
Air Date: 1960-12-20
A romance of past and present.
14. Rendezvous
Air Date: 1960-12-27
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.
15. The Executioner
Air Date: 1961-01-03
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
16. The Last Round
Air Date: 1961-01-10
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.
17. Dead Man's Tale
Air Date: 1961-01-17
A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.
18. The Sacred Mushroom
Air Date: 1961-01-24
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.
19. The Gift
Air Date: 1961-01-31
Neither shadow of turning.
20. Person Unknown
Air Date: 1961-02-07
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.
21. Night of Decision
Air Date: 1961-02-21
General Washington doubts, but is saved.
22. The Stranger
Air Date: 1961-02-28
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
23. Justice
Air Date: 1961-03-07
Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.
24. The Face
Air Date: 1961-03-14
Persistence of evil vision.
25. The Room Upstairs
Air Date: 1961-03-21
A Londoner hears a child crying for help.
26. Signal Received
Air Date: 1961-04-04
On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""
27. The Confession
Air Date: 1961-04-11
The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.
28. The Avengers
Air Date: 1961-04-25
How the past determines the future.
29. The Prisoner
Air Date: 1961-05-02
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
30. Blood Flower
Air Date: 1961-05-16
Flores, flores para los muertos.
31. The Sorcerer
Air Date: 1961-05-23
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
32. The Villa
Air Date: 1961-06-06
A room with a view.
33. Midnight
Air Date: 1961-06-13
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.
34. The Tiger
Air Date: 1961-06-20
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
35. Nightmare
Air Date: 1961-06-27
Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.
36. Eye Witness
Air Date: 1961-07-04
A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.
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Rating
5.6/10
Release Date
1959-01-20
Episodes
97 (3 seasons)
Status
Canceled
Cast
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Production Companies
Joseph L. Schenck Enterprises