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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2

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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2

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...

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  1. Background image for Delusion
    6.6/10(205 votes)

    #1 - Delusion

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Ordeal on Locust Street
    6.1/10(187 votes)

    #2 - Ordeal on Locust Street

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Brainwave
    7.1/10(176 votes)

    #3 - Brainwave

    S2:E3

    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 . . .

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  4. Background image for Doomsday
    6.4/10(179 votes)

    #4 - Doomsday

    S2:E4

    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 . . .

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Night of the Kill
    6.7/10(98 votes)

    #5 - Night of the Kill

    S2:E5

    Under cover of darkness.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Inheritance
    6.1/10(159 votes)

    #6 - The Inheritance

    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Open Window
    6.7/10(164 votes)

    #7 - The Open Window

    S2:E7

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Message from Clara
    6.9/10(166 votes)

    #8 - Message from Clara

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Forked Lightning
    6.3/10(154 votes)

    #9 - Forked Lightning

    S2:E9

    Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Reunion
    7.2/10(138 votes)

    #10 - Reunion

    S2:E10

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Dead Ringer
    6.8/10(156 votes)

    #11 - Dead Ringer

    S2:E11

    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 . . .

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Stone Cutter
    7.1/10(124 votes)

    #12 - The Stone Cutter

    S2:E12

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Father Image
    7.2/10(86 votes)

    #13 - Father Image

    S2:E13

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10(164 votes)

    #14 - Make Me Not a Witch

    S2:E14

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Hand
    6.9/10(151 votes)

    #15 - The Hand

    S2:E15

    ""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Justice Tree
    7.1/10(73 votes)

    #16 - The Justice Tree

    S2:E16

    Matters of life and death.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Earthquake
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    #17 - Earthquake

    S2:E17

    The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Forests of the Night
    6.6/10(120 votes)

    #18 - The Forests of the Night

    S2:E18

    A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Call from Tomorrow
    6.2/10(115 votes)

    #19 - Call from Tomorrow

    S2:E19

    Don't call us, we'll call you.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Who Are You?
    6.7/10(133 votes)

    #20 - Who Are You?

    S2:E20

    ""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    7.5/10(92 votes)

    #21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

    S2:E21

    In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln has a dream in which he foresees his own death. His wife Mary has a similarly fatalistic vision but other, ordinary Americans who have never met Lincoln, also experience psychic phenomena. The next evening the president goes to Ford's Theatre where his killer is waiting.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Lovers
    5.9/10(120 votes)

    #22 - The Lovers

    S2:E22

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

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  24. Background image for Vanishing Point
    7.3/10(150 votes)

    #23 - Vanishing Point

    S2:E23

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Mask
    6.8/10(134 votes)

    #24 - The Mask

    S2:E24

    ""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Haunting
    7.0/10(132 votes)

    #25 - The Haunting

    S2:E25

    The bridegroom kills the best man.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Delusion" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond" season 2. It scored 6.6/10 based on 205 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/15/1959. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Ordeal on Locust Street".