The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond

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   #1 - The Dream

   S1:E73/3/1959

   In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:John Dunkel

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   Writer:John Dunkel
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   #2 - The Haunted U-Boat

   S1:E175/12/1959

   While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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   Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
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   #3 - The Riddle

   S1:E226/16/1959

   An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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   Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
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   #4 - Ordeal on Locust Street

   S2:E29/22/1959

   A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Unknown

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   #5 - The Bride Possessed

   S1:E11/20/1959

   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.

   Director:John Newland

   Writers:Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard

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   Director:John Newland

   Writers:Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard
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   #6 - Epilogue

   S1:E62/24/1959

   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.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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   Writer:Don Mankiewicz
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   #7 - Twelve Hours to Live

   S1:E52/17/1959

   Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Merwin Gerard

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   Writer:Merwin Gerard
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   #8 - Premonition

   S1:E83/10/1959

   Forewarned is forearmed.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Paul David

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   Writer:Paul David
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   #9 - The Vision

   S1:E103/24/1959

   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.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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    #10 - The Captain's Guests

    S1:E195/26/1959

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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    Writer:Charles Beaumont
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    #11 - Doomsday

    S2:E410/13/1959

    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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    #12 - The Hand

    S2:E1512/29/1959

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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    #13 - The Navigator

    S1:E134/14/1959

    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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    Writer:Don Mankiewicz
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    #14 - The Burning Girl

    S1:E165/5/1959

    Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Catherine Turney

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    Writer:Catherine Turney
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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - The Dark Room

    S1:E42/10/1959

    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.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell
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    #16 - The Aerialist

    S1:E154/28/1959

    An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell
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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Emergency Only

    S1:E32/3/1959

    A set of circumstances outside the norm.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Collier Young

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    Writer:Collier Young
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    #18 - The Devil's Laughter

    S1:E113/31/1959

    The condemned man's not for hanging.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Alfred Brenner

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    Writer:Alfred Brenner
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    #19 - The Return of Mitchell Campion

    S1:E124/7/1959

    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:Unknown

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    #20 - The Secret

    S1:E144/21/1959

    Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Michael Plant

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    Writer:Michael Plant
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    #21 - The Image of Death

    S1:E185/19/1959

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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    #22 - Echo

    S1:E206/2/1959

    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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    Writer:Merwin Gerard
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    #23 - Forked Lightning

    S2:E911/17/1959

    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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    #24 - Reunion

    S2:E1011/24/1959

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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    #25 - Make Me Not a Witch

    S2:E1412/22/1959

    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:Unknown

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