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One Step Beyond

John Newland
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20 Jan 1959First aired
3Seasons
CanceledStatus
MysteryGenre

The series

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.

Episodes

Season 2 · 39 episodes · 1959

  1. Episode 115 Sep 1959

    Delusion

    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 y…

  2. Episode 222 Sep 1959

    Ordeal on Locust Street

    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 transfo…

  3. Episode 36 Oct 1959

    Brainwave

    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. …

  4. Episode 413 Oct 195930m

    Doomsday

    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 …

  5. Episode 520 Oct 1959

    Night of the Kill

    Under cover of darkness.

  6. Episode 627 Oct 1959

    The Inheritance

    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. Episode 73 Nov 1959

    The Open Window

    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…

  8. Episode 810 Nov 1959

    Message from Clara

    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. Episode 917 Nov 1959

    Forked Lightning

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

  10. Episode 1024 Nov 1959

    Reunion

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

  11. Episode 111 Dec 1959

    Dead Ringer

    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 orphan…

  12. Episode 128 Dec 1959

    The Stone Cutter

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

  13. Episode 1315 Dec 1959

    Father Image

    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. Episode 1422 Dec 1959

    Make Me Not a Witch

    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. Episode 1529 Dec 1959

    The Hand

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

  16. Episode 165 Jan 1960

    The Justice Tree

    Matters of life and death.

  17. Episode 1712 Jan 1960

    Earthquake

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

  18. Episode 1819 Jan 1960

    The Forests of the Night

    A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

  19. Episode 1926 Jan 1960

    Call from Tomorrow

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

  20. Episode 202 Feb 1960

    Who Are You?

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

  21. Episode 219 Feb 1960

    The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

    In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln has a dream in which he foresees his own death. His wife Mary has a similarly fatalistic vision but other, ordinary Americans who have never met Lincoln, also experience psychic phenomena. The next evening…

  22. Episode 2216 Feb 1960

    The Lovers

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

  23. Episode 2323 Feb 1960

    Vanishing Point

    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. Episode 241 Mar 1960

    The Mask

    ""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

  25. Episode 258 Mar 1960

    The Haunting

    The bridegroom kills the best man.

  26. Episode 2615 Mar 1960

    The Explorer

    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 …

  27. Episode 2722 Mar 1960

    The Clown

    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 vi…

  28. Episode 285 Apr 1960

    I Saw You Tomorrow

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

  29. Episode 2912 Apr 1960

    Encounter

    Without a plane, a pilot appears.

  30. Episode 3019 Apr 1960

    The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

    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 …

  31. Episode 3126 Apr 1960

    The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

    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. Episode 323 May 1960

    Delia

    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 . .…

  33. Episode 3310 May 1960

    The Visitor

    A man returns to his past.

  34. Episode 3417 May 1960

    Gypsy

    A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

  35. Episode 3524 May 1960

    Contact

    A hands-on approach.

  36. Episode 3631 May 1960

    The Lonely Room

    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 h…

  37. Episode 377 Jun 1960

    House of the Dead

    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…

  38. Episode 3814 Jun 1960

    Goodbye Grandpa

    An old railroad man keeps his promise.

  39. Episode 3921 Jun 1960

    The Storm

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

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