Little Davey Morris, lost in the woods, is protected by a giant furry friend.

Night of the Kill

John Newland

The Inheritance

Doomsday

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.

Delusion

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.

Ordeal on Locust Street

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 . . .

Brainwave

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 â€“ because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .

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.

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.

The Open Window

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.

Message from Clara

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

Forked Lightning

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

Reunion

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 . . .

Dead Ringer

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

The Stone Cutter

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.

Father Image

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.

Make Me Not a Witch

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

The Hand

The Justice Tree

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

Earthquake

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

The Forests of the Night

Call from Tomorrow

Who Are You?

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.

The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

The Lovers

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.

Vanishing Point

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.

The Mask

The Haunting

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?

The Explorer

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 â€“ only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

The Clown

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

Proverbs

I Saw You Tomorrow

Encounter

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.

The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

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.

The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times they've met before.  The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.

Delia

The Visitor

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

Gypsy

Contact

Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.

The Lonely Room

A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches  for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic message on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the ""House of the Dead"" . . .

House of the Dead

Goodbye Grandpa

no sooner out the hermit-dorm   I found the calm that follows storm

Beckett

The Storm

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 to July 1961.

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