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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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Season 1

7.1/10467 votes
The Bride Possessed
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1959
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
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard
7.1/10450 votes
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
7.7/10416 votes
Emergency Only
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1959
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
7.1/10399 votes
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
6.7/10296 votes
Twelve Hours to Live
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1959
Following an argument, a wife begins having visions of her husband in terrible danger.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Merwin Gerard
7.1/10326 votes
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
6.6/10275 votes
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
6.4/10279 votes
Premonition
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1959
A woman is haunted by the fear of her own demise after witnessing a premonition of her death at the hands of a chandelier in her home.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Paul David
7.0/10331 votes
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
7.0/10313 votes
The Vision
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/24/1959
On a WWI battlefield, a group of French soldiers each experience something which causes them to drop their weapons and walk away from the fight.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
7.0/10287 votes
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
7.2/10308 votes
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: Unknown
7.5/10301 votes
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
6.9/10279 votes
The Secret
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/1959
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
Director: John Newland
Writer: Michael Plant
6.5/10268 votes
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
7.0/10265 votes
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
7.1/10278 votes
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
7.0/10238 votes
The Image of Death
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/1959
After killing his wife, an adulterous noble becomes increasingly haunted by a stain on the wall which seems to be the image of his dead wife's face.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
6.5/10251 votes
The Captain's Guests
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959
A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.1/10262 votes
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
6.5/10230 votes
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
6.6/10236 votes
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