8.1/1090 votesLoading...#1 - If You See Sally
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1960
Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.9/1075 votesLoading...#2 - The Confession
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 4/11/1961
The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.7/10344 votesLoading...#3 - Emergency Only
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1959
A set of circumstances outside the norm.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Collier Young
7.7/10108 votesLoading...#4 - The Death Waltz
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1960
The Merry Widow?
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.7/1082 votesLoading...#5 - Signal Received
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1961
On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.6/1069 votesLoading...#6 - The Tiger
Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 6/20/1961
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
7.5/10238 votesLoading...#7 - The Navigator
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/1959
Dead reckoning.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
7.5/1088 votesLoading...#8 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1960
""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.5/10179 votesLoading...#9 - The Visitor
Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 5/10/1960
A man returns to his past.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.5/10129 votesLoading...#10 - The Executioner
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1961
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.4/1073 votesLoading...#11 - The Promise
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1960
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.4/1062 votesLoading...#12 - The Stranger
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1961
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.4/1068 votesLoading...#13 - The Prisoner
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 5/2/1961
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10260 votesLoading...#14 - The Return of Mitchell Campion
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/7/1959
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...
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10154 votesLoading...#15 - Make Me Not a Witch
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1959
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10142 votesLoading...#16 - Vanishing Point
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10103 votesLoading...#17 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/19/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10145 votesLoading...#18 - The Trap
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10110 votesLoading...#19 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/1061 votesLoading...#20 - Eye Witness
Season 3 Episode 36 - Aired 7/4/1961
A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/10132 votesLoading...#21 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1959
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/1080 votesLoading...#22 - Father Image
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1959
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/10105 votesLoading...#23 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/26/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/10129 votesLoading...#24 - Tidal Wave
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/1960
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 – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/1078 votesLoading...#25 - The Voice
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1960
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond
Every episode of One Step Beyond ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"If You See Sally" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 8.1/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by N/A, it aired on 10/18/1960. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Confession".