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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!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 15 - The Hand
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Hand

    S2:E15

    ""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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  2. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 13 - The Navigator
    7.5/10(2 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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  3. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 8 - Premonition
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Premonition

    S1:E8

    Forewarned is forearmed.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Paul David

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 11 - The Devil's Laughter
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Devil's Laughter

    S1:E11

    The condemned man's not for hanging.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Alfred Brenner

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  5. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 12 - The Return of Mitchell Campion
    7.0/10(1 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...

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 18 - The Image of Death
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Image of Death

    S1:E18

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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  7. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 19 - The Captain's Guests
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Captain's Guests

    S1:E19

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  8. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 20 - Echo
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Merwin Gerard

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 4 - Doomsday
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Doomsday

    S2:E4

    A 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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 9 - Forked Lightning
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Forked Lightning

    S2:E9

    Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 10 - Reunion
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Reunion

    S2:E10

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 14 - Make Me Not a Witch
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 22 - The Lovers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Lovers

    S2:E22

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Joseph Petracca

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  14. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 23 - Vanishing Point
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 26 - The Explorer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Explorer

    S2:E26

    An 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?

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 29 - Encounter
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Encounter

    S2:E29

    Without a plane, a pilot appears.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 39 - The Storm
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Storm

    S2:E39

    no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 5 - If You See Sally
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - If You See Sally

    S3:E5

    Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 9 - The Voice
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Voice

    S3:E9

    Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 11 - Tonight at 12:17
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Tonight at 12:17

    S3:E11

    An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 18 - The Sacred Mushroom
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Sacred Mushroom

    S3:E18

    Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 20 - Person Unknown
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Person Unknown

    S3:E20

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 34 - The Tiger
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Tiger

    S3:E34

    A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Ian Stuart Black

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  24. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 16 - The Burning Girl
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - The Burning Girl

    S1:E16

    Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Catherine Turney

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  25. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 10 - The Promise
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Promise

    S3:E10

    But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Hand" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Lawrence B. Marcus, it aired on 12/29/1959. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Navigator".