7.0/10379 votes#1 - The Bride Possessed
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1959
The nuptial visage.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard
7.1/10382 votes#2 - 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
7.7/10344 votes#3 - Emergency Only
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1959
A set of circumstances outside the norm.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Collier Young
7.1/10331 votes#4 - 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
6.7/10239 votes#5 - 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
7.1/10272 votes#6 - 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
6.6/10232 votes#7 - 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
6.4/10230 votes#8 - Premonition
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1959
Forewarned is forearmed.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Paul David
7.0/10275 votes#9 - 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
7.0/10264 votes#10 - 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
7.0/10236 votes#11 - 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
7.3/10260 votes#12 - 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
7.5/10238 votes#13 - The Navigator
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/1959
Dead reckoning.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
6.9/10232 votes#14 - The Secret
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/1959
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
Director: John Newland
Writer: Michael Plant
6.5/10231 votes#15 - 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
7.0/10225 votes#16 - 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
7.0/10226 votes#17 - 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
7.1/10199 votes#18 - 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
6.6/10215 votes#19 - The Captain's Guests
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.1/10223 votes#20 - 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
6.6/10194 votes#21 - 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
6.5/10199 votes#22 - 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
The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 1
Every episode of One Step Beyond Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Bride Possessed" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 379 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard, it aired on 1/20/1959. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Night of April 14th".