The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 1

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7.7/10(421 votes)
#1 - Emergency Only
S1:E32/3/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Collier Young
7.5/10(304 votes)
#2 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Don Mankiewicz
7.2/10(311 votes)
#3 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Unknown
7.1/10(473 votes)
#4 - 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
7.1/10(453 votes)
#5 - Night of April 14th
S1:E21/27/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Collier Young
7.1/10(402 votes)
#6 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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7.1/10(330 votes)
#7 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Don Mankiewicz
7.1/10(280 votes)
#8 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
7.1/10(264 votes)
#9 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Merwin Gerard
7.0/10(335 votes)
#10 - The Dead Part of the House
S1:E93/17/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
7.0/10(315 votes)
#11 - The Vision
S1:E103/24/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
7.0/10(291 votes)
#12 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Alfred Brenner
7.0/10(269 votes)
#13 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Catherine Turney
7.0/10(240 votes)
#14 - The Image of Death
S1:E185/19/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
6.9/10(282 votes)
#15 - The Secret
S1:E144/21/1959
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
Director:John Newland
Writer:Michael Plant
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Michael Plant
6.7/10(300 votes)
#16 - Twelve Hours to Live
S1:E52/17/1959
Following an argument, a wife begins having visions of her husband in terrible danger.
Director:John Newland
Writer:Merwin Gerard
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Merwin Gerard
6.6/10(279 votes)
#17 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:John Dunkel
6.6/10(239 votes)
#18 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus
6.5/10(252 votes)
#19 - The Captain's Guests
S1:E195/26/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Charles Beaumont
6.5/10(233 votes)
#20 - Front Runner
S1:E216/9/1959
A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.
Director:John Newland
Writer:Don Mankiewicz
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Don Mankiewicz
6.4/10(281 votes)
#21 - Premonition
S1:E83/10/1959
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
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Director:John Newland
Writer:Paul David
6.4/10(270 votes)
#22 - 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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Director:John Newland
Writer:Francis M. Cockrell