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 1959 to July 1961.
The best episode of "One Step Beyond" season 1 is "The Bride Possessed", rated 7/10 from 373 user votes. It was directed by John Newland and written by Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard. "The Bride Possessed" aired on 1/20/1959 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Night of April 14th".
The nuptial visage.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus, Merwin Gerard
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 set of circumstances outside the norm.
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
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Merwin Gerard
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
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
Forewarned is forearmed.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Paul David
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
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
Dead reckoning.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
Director: John Newland
Writer: Michael Plant
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
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
""Let her paint an inch thick...""
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Charles Beaumont
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
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