The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.6/10(224 votes)

   #1 - Delusion

   S2:E19/15/1959

   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:Unknown

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2. 

   6.1/10(204 votes)

   #2 - Ordeal on Locust Street

   S2:E29/22/1959

   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:Unknown

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3. 

   7.1/10(194 votes)

   #3 - Brainwave

   S2:E310/6/1959

   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

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   Writer:Charles Beaumont
4. 

   6.3/10(193 votes)

   #4 - Doomsday

   S2:E410/13/1959

   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:Unknown

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   6.6/10(110 votes)

   #5 - Night of the Kill

   S2:E510/20/1959

   Under cover of darkness.

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Unknown

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6. 

   6.1/10(175 votes)

   #6 - The Inheritance

   S2:E610/27/1959

   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:Unknown

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7. 

   6.7/10(180 votes)

   #7 - The Open Window

   S2:E711/3/1959

   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:Unknown

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   6.9/10(183 votes)

   #8 - Message from Clara

   S2:E811/10/1959

   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:Unknown

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9. 

   6.3/10(170 votes)

   #9 - Forked Lightning

   S2:E911/17/1959

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

   Director:John Newland

   Writer:Unknown

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10. 

    7.1/10(159 votes)

    #10 - Reunion

    S2:E1011/24/1959

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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11. 

    6.8/10(169 votes)

    #11 - Dead Ringer

    S2:E1112/1/1959

    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:Unknown

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12. 

    7.1/10(137 votes)

    #12 - The Stone Cutter

    S2:E1212/8/1959

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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13. 

    7.0/10(98 votes)

    #13 - Father Image

    S2:E1312/15/1959

    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:Unknown

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14. 

    7.3/10(181 votes)

    #14 - Make Me Not a Witch

    S2:E1412/22/1959

    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:Unknown

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15. 

    6.8/10(167 votes)

    #15 - The Hand

    S2:E1512/29/1959

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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16. 

    7.0/10(83 votes)

    #16 - The Justice Tree

    S2:E161/5/1960

    Matters of life and death.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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17. 

    7.1/10(168 votes)

    #17 - Earthquake

    S2:E171/12/1960

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    6.5/10(134 votes)

    #18 - The Forests of the Night

    S2:E181/19/1960

    A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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19. 

    6.1/10(131 votes)

    #19 - Call from Tomorrow

    S2:E191/26/1960

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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20. 

    6.7/10(149 votes)

    #20 - Who Are You?

    S2:E202/2/1960

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

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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21. 

    7.4/10(106 votes)

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

    S2:E212/9/1960

    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.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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22. 

    5.9/10(133 votes)

    #22 - The Lovers

    S2:E222/16/1960

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Joseph Petracca

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    Writer:Joseph Petracca
23. 

    7.2/10(167 votes)

    #23 - Vanishing Point

    S2:E232/23/1960

    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:Unknown

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24. 

    6.8/10(153 votes)

    #24 - The Mask

    S2:E243/1/1960

    ""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:Unknown

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25. 

    6.9/10(149 votes)

    #25 - The Haunting

    S2:E253/8/1960

    The bridegroom kills the best man.

    Director:John Newland

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown