Overview of 'One Step Beyond' Season 3

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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Release Date: 1959-01-20
Seasons: 1 2 3

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Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 3 Episode List

Episode 1 - Tidal Wave
Release Date: 1960-08-30
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women â€“ accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.
Episode 2 - Anniversary of a Murder
Release Date: 1960-09-27
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .
Episode 3 - The Death Waltz
Release Date: 1960-10-04
The Merry Widow?
Episode 4 - The Return
Release Date: 1960-10-11
These were the swift to harry...
Episode 5 - If You See Sally
Release Date: 1960-10-18
Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.
Episode 6 - Moment of Hate
Release Date: 1960-10-25
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.
Episode 7 - To Know the End
Release Date: 1960-11-01
...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.
Episode 8 - The Trap
Release Date: 1960-11-15
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.
Episode 9 - The Voice
Release Date: 1960-11-22
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats
Episode 10 - The Promise
Release Date: 1960-11-29
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost
Episode 11 - Tonight at 12:17
Release Date: 1960-12-06
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
Episode 12 - Where Are They?
Release Date: 1960-12-13
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.
Episode 13 - Legacy of Love
Release Date: 1960-12-20
A romance of past and present.
Episode 14 - Rendezvous
Release Date: 1960-12-27
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.
Episode 15 - The Executioner
Release Date: 1961-01-03
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
Episode 16 - The Last Round
Release Date: 1961-01-10
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.
Episode 17 - Dead Man's Tale
Release Date: 1961-01-17
A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.
Episode 18 - The Sacred Mushroom
Release Date: 1961-01-24
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.
Episode 19 - The Gift
Release Date: 1961-01-31
Neither shadow of turning.
Episode 20 - Person Unknown
Release Date: 1961-02-07
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.
Episode 21 - Night of Decision
Release Date: 1961-02-21
General Washington doubts, but is saved.
Episode 22 - The Stranger
Release Date: 1961-02-28
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
Episode 23 - Justice
Release Date: 1961-03-07
Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.
Episode 24 - The Face
Release Date: 1961-03-14
Persistence of evil vision.
Episode 25 - The Room Upstairs
Release Date: 1961-03-21
A Londoner hears a child crying for help.
Episode 26 - Signal Received
Release Date: 1961-04-04
On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""
Episode 27 - The Confession
Release Date: 1961-04-11
The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.
Episode 28 - The Avengers
Release Date: 1961-04-25
How the past determines the future.
Episode 29 - The Prisoner
Release Date: 1961-05-02
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
Episode 30 - Blood Flower
Release Date: 1961-05-16
Flores, flores para los muertos.
Episode 31 - The Sorcerer
Release Date: 1961-05-23
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
Episode 32 - The Villa
Release Date: 1961-06-06
A room with a view.
Episode 33 - Midnight
Release Date: 1961-06-13
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.
Episode 34 - The Tiger
Release Date: 1961-06-20
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
Episode 35 - Nightmare
Release Date: 1961-06-27
Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.
Episode 36 - Eye Witness
Release Date: 1961-07-04
A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.