
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
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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 …
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Episode 520 Oct 1959
Night of the Kill
Under cover of darkness.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Episode 1024 Nov 1959
Reunion
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
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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…
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Episode 128 Dec 1959
The Stone Cutter
A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 1529 Dec 1959
The Hand
""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
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Episode 165 Jan 1960
The Justice Tree
Matters of life and death.
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Episode 1712 Jan 1960
Earthquake
The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
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Episode 1819 Jan 1960
The Forests of the Night
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
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Episode 1926 Jan 1960
Call from Tomorrow
Don't call us, we'll call you.
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Episode 202 Feb 1960
Who Are You?
""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
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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…
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Episode 2216 Feb 1960
The Lovers
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
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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.
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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""
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Episode 258 Mar 1960
The Haunting
The bridegroom kills the best man.
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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 …
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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…
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Episode 285 Apr 1960
I Saw You Tomorrow
""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs
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Episode 2912 Apr 1960
Encounter
Without a plane, a pilot appears.
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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 …
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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.
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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 . .…
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Episode 3310 May 1960
The Visitor
A man returns to his past.
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Episode 3417 May 1960
Gypsy
A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.
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Episode 3524 May 1960
Contact
A hands-on approach.
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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…
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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…
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Episode 3814 Jun 1960
Goodbye Grandpa
An old railroad man keeps his promise.
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Episode 3921 Jun 1960
The Storm
no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett
