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.

Creators and Cast

Creators

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Cast

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John Newland

Self - Host

Episodes

Specials

4 episodes

S0 E1 · Extended Pilot

1961-12-12

No summary.

S0 E2 · Alcoa Opening - 1990 Version

1961-12-12

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S0 E3 · Audio Interview - Don Mankiewicz

1961-12-12

No summary.

S0 E4 · Alcoa Opening - Original Version

1950-12-19

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Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · The Bride Possessed

1959-01-20

The nuptial visage.

S1 E2 · Night of April 14th

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.

S1 E3 · Emergency Only

1959-02-03

A set of circumstances outside the norm.

S1 E4 · The Dark Room

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.

S1 E5 · Twelve Hours to Live

1959-02-17

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

S1 E6 · Epilogue

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.

S1 E7 · The Dream

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.

S1 E8 · Premonition

1959-03-10

Forewarned is forearmed.

S1 E9 · The Dead Part of the House

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.

S1 E10 · The Vision

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.

S1 E11 · The Devil's Laughter

1959-03-31

The condemned man's not for hanging.

S1 E12 · The Return of Mitchell Campion

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...

S1 E13 · The Navigator

1959-04-14

Dead reckoning.

S1 E14 · The Secret

1959-04-21

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

S1 E15 · The Aerialist

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.

S1 E16 · The Burning Girl

1959-05-05

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

S1 E17 · The Haunted U-Boat

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.

S1 E18 · The Image of Death

1959-05-19

""Let her paint an inch thick...""

S1 E19 · The Captain's Guests

1959-05-26

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

S1 E20 · Echo

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.

S1 E21 · Front Runner

1959-06-09

A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

S1 E22 · The Riddle

1959-06-16

An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

Season 2

39 episodes

S2 E1 · Delusion

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.

S2 E2 · Ordeal on Locust Street

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.

S2 E3 · Brainwave

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 . . .

S2 E4 · Doomsday

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 . . .

S2 E5 · Night of the Kill

1959-10-20

Under cover of darkness.

S2 E6 · The Inheritance

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.

S2 E7 · The Open Window

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.

S2 E8 · Message from Clara

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.

S2 E9 · Forked Lightning

1959-11-17

Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

S2 E10 · Reunion

1959-11-24

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

S2 E11 · Dead Ringer

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 . . .

S2 E12 · The Stone Cutter

1959-12-08

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

S2 E13 · Father Image

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.

S2 E14 · Make Me Not a Witch

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.

S2 E15 · The Hand

1959-12-29

""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

S2 E16 · The Justice Tree

1960-01-05

Matters of life and death.

S2 E17 · Earthquake

1960-01-12

The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

S2 E18 · The Forests of the Night

1960-01-19

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

S2 E19 · Call from Tomorrow

1960-01-26

Don't call us, we'll call you.

S2 E20 · Who Are You?

1960-02-02

""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)

S2 E21 · The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

1960-02-09

""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)

S2 E22 · The Lovers

1960-02-16

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

S2 E23 · Vanishing Point

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.

S2 E24 · The Mask

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""

S2 E25 · The Haunting

1960-03-08

The bridegroom kills the best man.

S2 E26 · The Explorer

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?

S2 E27 · The Clown

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.

S2 E28 · I Saw You Tomorrow

1960-04-05

""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs

S2 E29 · Encounter

1960-04-12

Without a plane, a pilot appears.

S2 E30 · The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

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.

S2 E31 · The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

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.

S2 E32 · Delia

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.

S2 E33 · The Visitor

1960-05-10

A man returns to his past.

S2 E34 · Gypsy

1960-05-17

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

S2 E35 · Contact

1960-05-24

A hands-on approach.

S2 E36 · The Lonely Room

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.

S2 E37 · House of the Dead

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"" . . .

S2 E38 · Goodbye Grandpa

1960-06-14

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

S2 E39 · The Storm

1960-06-21

no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett

Season 3

36 episodes

S3 E1 · Tidal Wave

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.

S3 E2 · Anniversary of a Murder

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 . . .

S3 E3 · The Death Waltz

1960-10-04

The Merry Widow?

S3 E4 · The Return

1960-10-11

These were the swift to harry...

S3 E5 · If You See Sally

1960-10-18

Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

S3 E6 · Moment of Hate

1960-10-25

A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.

S3 E7 · To Know the End

1960-11-01

...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.

S3 E8 · The Trap

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.

S3 E9 · The Voice

1960-11-22

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

S3 E10 · The Promise

1960-11-29

But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost

S3 E11 · Tonight at 12:17

1960-12-06

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

S3 E12 · Where Are They?

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.

S3 E13 · Legacy of Love

1960-12-20

A romance of past and present.

S3 E14 · Rendezvous

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.

S3 E15 · The Executioner

1961-01-03

A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

S3 E16 · The Last Round

1961-01-10

A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.

S3 E17 · Dead Man's Tale

1961-01-17

A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

S3 E18 · The Sacred Mushroom

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.

S3 E19 · The Gift

1961-01-31

Neither shadow of turning.

S3 E20 · Person Unknown

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.

S3 E21 · Night of Decision

1961-02-21

General Washington doubts, but is saved.

S3 E22 · The Stranger

1961-02-28

In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.

S3 E23 · Justice

1961-03-07

Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

S3 E24 · The Face

1961-03-14

Persistence of evil vision.

S3 E25 · The Room Upstairs

1961-03-21

A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

S3 E26 · Signal Received

1961-04-04

On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

S3 E27 · The Confession

1961-04-11

The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

S3 E28 · The Avengers

1961-04-25

How the past determines the future.

S3 E29 · The Prisoner

1961-05-02

The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

S3 E30 · Blood Flower

1961-05-16

Flores, flores para los muertos.

S3 E31 · The Sorcerer

1961-05-23

An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

S3 E32 · The Villa

1961-06-06

A room with a view.

S3 E33 · Midnight

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.

S3 E34 · The Tiger

1961-06-20

A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

S3 E35 · Nightmare

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.

S3 E36 · Eye Witness

1961-07-04

A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.