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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...
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Season 1

  • The Bride Possessed
    7.0/10379 votes
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    The Bride Possessed

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1959

    The nuptial visage.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard

  • Night of April 14th
    7.1/10382 votes
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    Night of April 14th

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/1959

    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

  • Emergency Only
    7.7/10344 votes
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    Emergency Only

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1959

    A set of circumstances outside the norm.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Collier Young

  • The Dark Room
    7.1/10331 votes
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    The Dark Room

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/1959

    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

  • Twelve Hours to Live
    6.7/10239 votes
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    Twelve Hours to Live

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1959

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Merwin Gerard

  • Epilogue
    7.1/10272 votes
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    Epilogue

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1959

    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

  • The Dream
    6.6/10232 votes
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    The Dream

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/1959

    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

  • Premonition
    6.4/10230 votes
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    Premonition

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1959

    Forewarned is forearmed.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Paul David

  • The Dead Part of the House
    7.0/10275 votes
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    The Dead Part of the House

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/1959

    A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

  • The Vision
    7.0/10264 votes
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    The Vision

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/24/1959

    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

  • The Devil's Laughter
    7.0/10236 votes
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    The Devil's Laughter

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/1959

    The condemned man's not for hanging.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Alfred Brenner

  • The Return of Mitchell Campion
    7.3/10260 votes
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    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

  • The Navigator
    7.5/10238 votes
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    The Navigator

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/1959

    Dead reckoning.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Don Mankiewicz

  • The Secret
    6.9/10232 votes
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    The Secret

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/1959

    Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Michael Plant

  • The Aerialist
    6.5/10231 votes
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    The Aerialist

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1959

    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

  • The Burning Girl
    7.0/10225 votes
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    The Burning Girl

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/5/1959

    Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Catherine Turney

  • The Haunted U-Boat
    7.0/10226 votes
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    The Haunted U-Boat

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/12/1959

    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

  • The Image of Death
    7.1/10199 votes
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    The Image of Death

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/1959

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

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

  • The Captain's Guests
    6.6/10215 votes
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    The Captain's Guests

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • Echo
    7.1/10223 votes
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    Echo

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/2/1959

    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

  • Front Runner
    6.6/10194 votes
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    Front Runner

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/9/1959

    A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Don Mankiewicz

  • The Riddle
    6.5/10199 votes
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    The Riddle

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/16/1959

    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