6.7/10200 votes#1 - Delusion
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1959
A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.1/10178 votes#2 - Ordeal on Locust Street
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1959
A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.1/10170 votes#3 - Brainwave
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1959
During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .
Director: John Newland
Writer: Charles Beaumont
6.4/10174 votes#4 - Doomsday
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1959
A Scottish earl executes his son's lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women places a curse on the earl's family. Hundreds of years later, the current earl of the family lives in fear of this curse – because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.6/1093 votes#5 - Night of the Kill
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1959
Under cover of darkness.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.1/10153 votes#6 - The Inheritance
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1959
A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond necklace inflicts a horrible punishment on the women who try to wear it.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.7/10157 votes#7 - The Open Window
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1959
On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempted suicide by a young woman in the adjacent building. He rushes next door to save her . . . but he finds the apartment empty! Later, when the exact same vision is repeated, he begins to doubt his sanity.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.9/10161 votes#8 - Message from Clara
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1959
An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.3/10147 votes#9 - Forked Lightning
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1959
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/10133 votes#10 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1959
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.8/10149 votes#11 - Dead Ringer
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1959
A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.1/10116 votes#12 - The Stone Cutter
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1959
A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.2/1080 votes#13 - Father Image
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1959
Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand why he never sold the place, until an accident causes Dan to go back in time and discover the reason.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.3/10155 votes#14 - Make Me Not a Witch
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1959
A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.9/10146 votes#15 - The Hand
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1959
""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.0/1069 votes#16 - The Justice Tree
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1960
Matters of life and death.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.1/10151 votes#17 - Earthquake
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1960
The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.6/10114 votes#18 - The Forests of the Night
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1960
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.1/10112 votes#19 - Call from Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1960
Don't call us, we'll call you.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.7/10125 votes#20 - Who Are You?
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1960
""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.5/1088 votes#21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1960
""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
5.8/10115 votes#22 - The Lovers
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1960
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Joseph Petracca
7.3/10142 votes#23 - Vanishing Point
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1960
Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he's accused of murdering her.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.8/10132 votes#24 - The Mask
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1960
""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
7.0/10131 votes#25 - The Haunting
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1960
The bridegroom kills the best man.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2
Every episode of One Step Beyond Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Delusion" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond" season 2. It scored 6.7/10 based on 200 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1959. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Ordeal on Locust Street".