
One Step Beyond
NR1959•30m•5.6/10
MysteryDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
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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.
Production
Joseph L. Schenck Enterprises
Language
EN
Status
Canceled
First Aired
January 20, 1959
Last Aired
July 4, 1961
Networks
ABC
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season

E1
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.

E2
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.

E3
Emergency Only
Air date: 1959-02-03
A set of circumstances outside the norm.

E4
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.

E5
Twelve Hours to Live
Air date: 1959-02-17
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

E6
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.

E7
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.

E8
Premonition
Air date: 1959-03-10
Forewarned is forearmed.

E9
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.

E10
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.

E11
The Devil's Laughter
Air date: 1959-03-31
The condemned man's not for hanging.

E12
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...

E13
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.

E14
The Secret
Air date: 1959-04-21
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

E15
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.

E16
The Burning Girl
Air date: 1959-05-05
Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

E17
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.

E18
The Image of Death
Air date: 1959-05-19
""Let her paint an inch thick...""

E19
The Captain's Guests
Air date: 1959-05-26
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

E20
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.

E21
Front Runner
Air date: 1959-06-09
A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

E22
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.























