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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond

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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series that dramatized purportedly real-life supernatural and paranormal experiences. The series was hosted by John Newland and ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 5 - If You See Sally
    7.8/10(119 votes)

    S3:E5

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 3 - Emergency Only
    7.7/10(416 votes)

    S1:E3

    Having had his fortune told at a party, a skeptical man's disbelief turns to fear as events begin to unfold exactly as the psychic had predicted.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Collier Young

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  3. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 27 - The Confession
    7.7/10(95 votes)

    S3:E27

    The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 26 - Signal Received
    7.6/10(104 votes)

    S3:E26

    On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 13 - The Navigator
    7.5/10(301 votes)

    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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  6. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 3 - The Death Waltz
    7.5/10(130 votes)

    S3:E3

    A manipulative general's daughter arranges for one of her suitors to go on a dangerous mission so she can go to a ball with the other. When he is killed, his remark "I would come back from Hell to be with you" becomes true.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 15 - The Executioner
    7.5/10(152 votes)

    S3:E15

    A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 34 - The Tiger
    7.5/10(87 votes)

    S3:E34

    A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Ian Stuart Black

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 33 - The Visitor
    7.4/10(222 votes)

    S2:E33

    A man returns to his past.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 14 - Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10(195 votes)

    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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  11. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    7.3/10(111 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 11 - Tonight at 12:17
    7.3/10(133 votes)

    S3:E11

    An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 12 - The Return of Mitchell Campion
    7.2/10(308 votes)

    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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  14. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 3 - Brainwave
    7.2/10(203 votes)

    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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  15. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 23 - Vanishing Point
    7.2/10(174 votes)

    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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  16. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 30 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
    7.2/10(123 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 31 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
    7.2/10(124 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 1 - Tidal Wave
    7.2/10(160 votes)

    S3:E1

    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:Unknown

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 8 - The Trap
    7.2/10(169 votes)

    S3:E8

    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:Unknown

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  20. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 10 - The Promise
    7.2/10(91 votes)

    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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  21. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 22 - The Stranger
    7.2/10(76 votes)

    S3:E22

    In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 29 - The Prisoner
    7.2/10(81 votes)

    S3:E29

    The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 36 - Eye Witness
    7.2/10(81 votes)

    S3:E36

    A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 1 - The Bride Possessed
    7.1/10(467 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writers:Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard

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  25. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 2 - Night of April 14th
    7.1/10(450 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Collier Young

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Best Episodes Summary

"If You See Sally" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 7.8/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/18/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Emergency Only".