One Step Beyond (1959)
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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Episode 1 - Delusion
Release Date: 1959-09-15A 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.
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Episode 2 - Ordeal on Locust Street
Release Date: 1959-09-22A 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.
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Episode 3 - Brainwave
Release Date: 1959-10-06During 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 . . .
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Episode 4 - Doomsday
Release Date: 1959-10-13A 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 . . .
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Episode 5 - Night of the Kill
Release Date: 1959-10-20Under cover of darkness.
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Episode 6 - The Inheritance
Release Date: 1959-10-27A 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 7 - The Open Window
Release Date: 1959-11-03On 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.
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Episode 8 - Message from Clara
Release Date: 1959-11-10An 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 9 - Forked Lightning
Release Date: 1959-11-17Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
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Episode 10 - Reunion
Release Date: 1959-11-24World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
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Episode 11 - Dead Ringer
Release Date: 1959-12-01A 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 . . .
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Episode 12 - The Stone Cutter
Release Date: 1959-12-08A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
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Episode 13 - Father Image
Release Date: 1959-12-15Daniel 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 14 - Make Me Not a Witch
Release Date: 1959-12-22A 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 15 - The Hand
Release Date: 1959-12-29""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
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Episode 16 - The Justice Tree
Release Date: 1960-01-05Matters of life and death.
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Episode 17 - Earthquake
Release Date: 1960-01-12The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
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Episode 18 - The Forests of the Night
Release Date: 1960-01-19A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
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Episode 19 - Call from Tomorrow
Release Date: 1960-01-26Don't call us, we'll call you.
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Episode 20 - Who Are You?
Release Date: 1960-02-02""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
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Episode 21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
Release Date: 1960-02-09""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)
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Episode 22 - The Lovers
Release Date: 1960-02-16Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
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Episode 23 - Vanishing Point
Release Date: 1960-02-23Mrs. 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 24 - The Mask
Release Date: 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""
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Episode 25 - The Haunting
Release Date: 1960-03-08The bridegroom kills the best man.
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Episode 26 - The Explorer
Release Date: 1960-03-15An 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?
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Episode 27 - The Clown
Release Date: 1960-03-22A 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.
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Episode 28 - I Saw You Tomorrow
Release Date: 1960-04-05""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs
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Episode 29 - Encounter
Release Date: 1960-04-12Without a plane, a pilot appears.
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Episode 30 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
Release Date: 1960-04-19Peter 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.
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Episode 31 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
Release Date: 1960-04-26Following 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 32 - Delia
Release Date: 1960-05-03While 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.
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Episode 33 - The Visitor
Release Date: 1960-05-10A man returns to his past.
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Episode 34 - Gypsy
Release Date: 1960-05-17A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.
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Episode 35 - Contact
Release Date: 1960-05-24A hands-on approach.
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Episode 36 - The Lonely Room
Release Date: 1960-05-31Young 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.
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Episode 37 - House of the Dead
Release Date: 1960-06-07A 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"" . . .
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Episode 38 - Goodbye Grandpa
Release Date: 1960-06-14An old railroad man keeps his promise.
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Episode 39 - The Storm
Release Date: 1960-06-21no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett