One Step Beyond
One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond

1959 3 Seasons 97 Episodes ⭐ 5.7 Mystery Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Bride Possessed

Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wide-eyed, Louisiana-drawling wife Sally suddenly becomes a determin

EP 2

Night of April 14th

A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her

EP 3

Emergency Only

A set of circumstances outside the norm.

EP 4

The Dark Room

A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male m

EP 5

Twelve Hours to Live

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

EP 6

Epilogue

A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, a

EP 7

The Dream

In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignment

EP 8

Premonition

Forewarned is forearmed.

EP 9

The Dead Part of the House

A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of thre

EP 10

The Vision

In the trenches in WWI, soldiers as usual are dying like flies as expected. All of a sudden the French troops drop their

EP 11

The Devil's Laughter

The condemned man's not for hanging.

EP 12

The Return of Mitchell Campion

A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the h

EP 13

The Navigator

The crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship find that somebody has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mu

EP 14

The Secret

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

EP 15

The Aerialist

An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and

EP 16

The Burning Girl

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

EP 17

The Haunted U-Boat

While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ship

EP 18

The Image of Death

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

EP 19

The Captain's Guests

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

EP 20

Echo

A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's c

EP 21

Front Runner

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

EP 22

The Riddle

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

EP 1

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 tim

EP 2

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 di

EP 3

Brainwave

During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on

EP 4

Doomsday

A Scottish earl executes his son's lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women pla

EP 5

Night of the Kill

Under cover of darkness.

EP 6

The Inheritance

A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond neckla

EP 7

The Open Window

On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempt

EP 8

Message from Clara

An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand.

EP 9

Forked Lightning

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

EP 10

Reunion

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

EP 11

Dead Ringer

A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages.

EP 12

The Stone Cutter

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

EP 13

Father Image

Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand

EP 14

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

EP 15

The Hand

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

EP 16

The Justice Tree

Matters of life and death.

EP 17

Earthquake

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

EP 18

The Forests of the Night

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

EP 19

Call from Tomorrow

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

EP 20

Who Are You?

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

EP 21

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 fatalist

EP 22

The Lovers

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

EP 23

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 h

EP 24

The Mask

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

EP 25

The Haunting

The bridegroom kills the best man.

EP 26

The Explorer

An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowled

EP 27

The Clown

A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fl

EP 28

I Saw You Tomorrow

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

EP 29

Encounter

Without a plane, a pilot appears.

EP 30

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 ha

EP 31

The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with a

EP 32

Delia

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptica

EP 33

The Visitor

A man returns to his past.

EP 34

Gypsy

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

EP 35

Contact

A hands-on approach.

EP 36

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 l

EP 37

House of the Dead

A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled r

EP 38

Goodbye Grandpa

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

EP 39

The Storm

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

EP 1

Tidal Wave

As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find

EP 2

Anniversary of a Murder

In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when t

EP 3

The Death Waltz

The Merry Widow?

EP 4

The Return

These were the swift to harry...

EP 5

If You See Sally

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

EP 6

Moment of Hate

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

EP 7

To Know the End

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

EP 8

The Trap

Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with

EP 9

The Voice

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

EP 10

The Promise

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

EP 11

Tonight at 12:17

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

EP 12

Where Are They?

Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for

EP 13

Legacy of Love

A romance of past and present.

EP 14

Rendezvous

A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and

EP 15

The Executioner

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

EP 16

The Last Round

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

EP 17

Dead Man's Tale

A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

EP 18

The Sacred Mushroom

Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after

EP 19

The Gift

Neither shadow of turning.

EP 20

Person Unknown

In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec war

EP 21

Night of Decision

General Washington doubts, but is saved.

EP 22

The Stranger

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

EP 23

Justice

Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

EP 24

The Face

Persistence of evil vision.

EP 25

The Room Upstairs

A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

EP 26

Signal Received

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

EP 27

The Confession

The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

EP 28

The Avengers

How the past determines the future.

EP 29

The Prisoner

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

EP 30

Blood Flower

Flores, flores para los muertos.

EP 31

The Sorcerer

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

EP 32

The Villa

A room with a view.

EP 33

Midnight

While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he

EP 34

The Tiger

A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

EP 35

Nightmare

Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their

EP 36

Eye Witness

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

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