The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 1

A set of circumstances outside the norm.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Collier Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: John Newland

Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

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

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

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

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 condemned man's not for hanging.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Alfred Brenner

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Catherine Turney

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

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

Director: John Newland

Writer: Michael Plant

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Merwin Gerard

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

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Charles Beaumont

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

Director: John Newland

Writer: Don Mankiewicz

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

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

Director: John Newland

Writer: Paul David