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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!

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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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".

  • Delusion
    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

  • Ordeal on Locust Street
    6.1/10180 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

  • Brainwave
    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

  • Doomsday
    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

  • Night of the Kill
    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

  • The Inheritance
    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

  • The Open Window
    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

  • Message from Clara
    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

  • Forked Lightning
    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

  • Reunion
    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

  • Dead Ringer
    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

  • The Stone Cutter
    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

  • Father Image
    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

  • Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10156 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

  • The Hand
    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

  • The Justice Tree
    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

  • Earthquake
    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

  • The Forests of the Night
    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

  • Call from Tomorrow
    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

  • Who Are You?
    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

  • The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    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

  • The Lovers
    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

  • Vanishing Point
    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

  • The Mask
    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

  • The Haunting
    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