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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond

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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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  • If You See Sally
    8.1/10(92)
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    #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

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  • The Confession
    7.9/10(75)
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    #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

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  • Emergency Only
    7.7/10(354)
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    #3 - Emergency Only

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 2/3/1959

    A set of circumstances outside the norm.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Collier Young

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  • The Death Waltz
    7.7/10(108)
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    #4 - The Death Waltz

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/4/1960

    The Merry Widow?

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

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  • Signal Received
    7.7/10(83)
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    #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

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  • The Tiger
    7.6/10(69)
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    #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

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  • The Navigator
    7.5/10(244)
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    #7 - The Navigator

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 4/14/1959

    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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  • The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    7.5/10(89)
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    #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

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  • The Visitor
    7.5/10(185)
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    #9 - The Visitor

    Season 2 Episode 33

    Aired 5/10/1960

    A man returns to his past.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Executioner
    7.5/10(129)
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    #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

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  • The Promise
    7.4/10(75)
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    #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

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  • The Stranger
    7.4/10(62)
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    #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

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  • The Prisoner
    7.4/10(68)
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    #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

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  • The Return of Mitchell Campion
    7.3/10(265)
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    #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

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  • Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10(160)
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    #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

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  • Vanishing Point
    7.3/10(143)
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    #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

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  • The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
    7.3/10(103)
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    #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

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  • The Trap
    7.3/10(145)
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    #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

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  • Tonight at 12:17
    7.3/10(110)
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    #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

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  • The Sacred Mushroom
    7.3/10(89)
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    #20 - The Sacred Mushroom

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 1/24/1961

    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: N/A

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  • Eye Witness
    7.3/10(61)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Reunion
    7.2/10(135)
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    #22 - Reunion

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 11/24/1959

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

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  • Father Image
    7.2/10(82)
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    #23 - 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

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  • The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
    7.2/10(105)
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    #24 - 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

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  • Tidal Wave
    7.2/10(131)
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    #25 - 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

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Best Episodes Summary

"If You See Sally" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 8.1/10 based on 92 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".