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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond

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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond

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...

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  1. Background image for Emergency Only
    7.7/10(365 votes)

    #1 - Emergency Only

    S1:E3

    A set of circumstances outside the norm.

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  2. Background image for The Navigator
    7.5/10(251 votes)

    #2 - The Navigator

    S1:E13

    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.

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  3. Background image for The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    7.5/10(92 votes)

    #3 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

    S2:E21

    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 the president goes to Ford's Theatre where his killer is waiting.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.5/10(189 votes)

    #4 - The Visitor

    S2:E33

    A man returns to his past.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.3/10(274 votes)

    #5 - The Return of Mitchell Campion

    S1:E12

    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...

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10(164 votes)

    #6 - Make Me Not a Witch

    S2:E14

    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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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Vanishing Point
    7.3/10(150 votes)

    #7 - Vanishing Point

    S2:E23

    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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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
    7.3/10(104 votes)

    #8 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

    S2:E30

    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 to help track down a crazed killer.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Reunion
    7.2/10(138 votes)

    #9 - Reunion

    S2:E10

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.2/10(86 votes)

    #10 - Father Image

    S2:E13

    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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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
    7.2/10(107 votes)

    #11 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

    S2:E31

    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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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Bride Possessed
    7.1/10(400 votes)

    #12 - The Bride Possessed

    S1:E1

    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.

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    7.1/10(403 votes)

    #13 - Night of April 14th

    S1:E2

    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.

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    7.1/10(349 votes)

    #14 - The Dark Room

    S1:E4

    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.

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    7.1/10(287 votes)

    #15 - Epilogue

    S1:E6

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Image of Death
    7.1/10(210 votes)

    #16 - The Image of Death

    S1:E18

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

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  18. Background image for Echo
    7.1/10(228 votes)

    #17 - Echo

    S1:E20

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

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    7.1/10(176 votes)

    #18 - Brainwave

    S2:E3

    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. 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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  20. Background image for The Stone Cutter
    7.1/10(124 votes)

    #19 - The Stone Cutter

    S2:E12

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Justice Tree
    7.1/10(73 votes)

    #20 - The Justice Tree

    S2:E16

    Matters of life and death.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Earthquake
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    #21 - Earthquake

    S2:E17

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

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Clown
    7.1/10(176 votes)

    #22 - The Clown

    S2:E27

    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 violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Dead Part of the House
    7.0/10(287 votes)

    #23 - The Dead Part of the House

    S1:E9

    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.

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    7.0/10(276 votes)

    #24 - The Vision

    S1:E10

    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.

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  26. Background image for The Devil's Laughter
    7.0/10(250 votes)

    #25 - The Devil's Laughter

    S1:E11

    The condemned man's not for hanging.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Emergency Only" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 7.7/10 based on 365 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Collier Young, it aired on 2/3/1959. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Navigator".