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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 1

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 1 - The Bride Possessed
    7.0/10(431 votes)

    #1 - The Bride Possessed

    S1:E1

    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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  2. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 2 - Night of April 14th
    7.1/10(425 votes)

    #2 - Night of April 14th

    S1:E2

    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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  3. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 3 - Emergency Only
    7.7/10(394 votes)

    #3 - Emergency Only

    S1:E3

    A set of circumstances outside the norm.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Collier Young

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 4 - The Dark Room
    7.1/10(369 votes)

    #4 - The Dark Room

    S1:E4

    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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  5. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 5 - Twelve Hours to Live
    6.7/10(279 votes)

    #5 - Twelve Hours to Live

    S1:E5

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Merwin Gerard

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  6. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 6 - Epilogue
    7.1/10(308 votes)

    #6 - Epilogue

    S1:E6

    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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  7. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 7 - The Dream
    6.6/10(262 votes)

    #7 - The Dream

    S1:E7

    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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  8. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 8 - Premonition
    6.4/10(259 votes)

    #8 - Premonition

    S1:E8

    Forewarned is forearmed.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Paul David

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 9 - The Dead Part of the House
    7.0/10(306 votes)

    #9 - The Dead Part of the House

    S1:E9

    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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  10. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 10 - The Vision
    7.0/10(294 votes)

    #10 - The Vision

    S1:E10

    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

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  11. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 11 - The Devil's Laughter
    7.0/10(267 votes)

    #11 - The Devil's Laughter

    S1:E11

    The condemned man's not for hanging.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Alfred Brenner

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 12 - The Return of Mitchell Campion
    7.2/10(290 votes)

    #12 - The Return of Mitchell Campion

    S1:E12

    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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  13. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 13 - The Navigator
    7.5/10(274 votes)

    #13 - The Navigator

    S1:E13

    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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  14. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 14 - The Secret
    6.9/10(263 votes)

    #14 - The Secret

    S1:E14

    Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Michael Plant

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  15. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 15 - The Aerialist
    6.5/10(256 votes)

    #15 - The Aerialist

    S1:E15

    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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  16. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 16 - The Burning Girl
    7.0/10(251 votes)

    #16 - The Burning Girl

    S1:E16

    Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Catherine Turney

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  17. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 17 - The Haunted U-Boat
    7.0/10(262 votes)

    #17 - The Haunted U-Boat

    S1:E17

    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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  18. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 18 - The Image of Death
    7.0/10(224 votes)

    #18 - The Image of Death

    S1:E18

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 19 - The Captain's Guests
    6.6/10(239 votes)

    #19 - The Captain's Guests

    S1:E19

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  20. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 20 - Echo
    7.1/10(247 votes)

    #20 - Echo

    S1:E20

    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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  21. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 21 - Front Runner
    6.6/10(218 votes)

    #21 - Front Runner

    S1:E21

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Don Mankiewicz

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 22 - The Riddle
    6.6/10(222 votes)

    #22 - The Riddle

    S1:E22

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Bride Possessed" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 431 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".