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The Best Episodes of One Step Beyond Season 2

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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series that dramatized purportedly real-life supernatural and paranormal experiences. The series was hosted by John Newland and ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 33 - The Visitor
    7.4/10(222 votes)

    S2:E33

    A man returns to his past.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 14 - Make Me Not a Witch
    7.3/10(195 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    7.3/10(111 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 3 - Brainwave
    7.2/10(203 votes)

    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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  5. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 23 - Vanishing Point
    7.2/10(174 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 30 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
    7.2/10(123 votes)

    S2:E30

    Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 31 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
    7.2/10(124 votes)

    S2:E31

    Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with assisting in the capture of real-life serial killers. Hurkos himself finally appears on screen.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 10 - Reunion
    7.1/10(171 votes)

    S2:E10

    World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 17 - Earthquake
    7.1/10(174 votes)

    S2:E17

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 27 - The Clown
    7.1/10(209 votes)

    S2:E27

    A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Gabrielle Upton

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  11. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 12 - The Stone Cutter
    7.0/10(144 votes)

    S2:E12

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 16 - The Justice Tree
    7.0/10(89 votes)

    S2:E16

    Matters of life and death.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 8 - Message from Clara
    6.9/10(191 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 13 - Father Image
    6.9/10(104 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 29 - Encounter
    6.9/10(145 votes)

    S2:E29

    Without a plane, a pilot appears.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 11 - Dead Ringer
    6.8/10(179 votes)

    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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 15 - The Hand
    6.8/10(176 votes)

    S2:E15

    A murderer cannot seem to wash the blood off his hand.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Lawrence B. Marcus

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  18. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 24 - The Mask
    6.8/10(160 votes)

    S2:E24

    When a WWII Lieutenant bails out of a crippled plane and almost dies, he somehow acquires both the memory and likeness of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 25 - The Haunting
    6.8/10(157 votes)

    S2:E25

    The bridegroom kills the best man.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 34 - Gypsy
    6.8/10(160 votes)

    S2:E34

    A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 7 - The Open Window
    6.7/10(190 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 20 - Who Are You?
    6.7/10(156 votes)

    S2:E20

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 26 - The Explorer
    6.7/10(163 votes)

    S2:E26

    An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the region's ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 28 - I Saw You Tomorrow
    6.7/10(149 votes)

    S2:E28

    ""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 1 - Delusion
    6.6/10(238 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Visitor" is the best rated episode of "One Step Beyond" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 222 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/10/1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Make Me Not a Witch".