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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 1959 to July 1961.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 33 - The Visitor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - The Visitor

    S2:E33

    A man returns to his past.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 26 - Signal Received
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Signal Received

    S3:E26

    On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 27 - The Confession
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - The Confession

    S3:E27

    The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 33 - Midnight
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Midnight

    S3:E33

    While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 28 - The Avengers
    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Avengers

    S3:E28

    How the past determines the future.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 29 - The Prisoner
    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Prisoner

    S3:E29

    The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 30 - Blood Flower
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Blood Flower

    S3:E30

    Flores, flores para los muertos.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 31 - The Sorcerer
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Sorcerer

    S3:E31

    An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 3 - Brainwave
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  11. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 5 - Night of the Kill
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Night of the Kill

    S2:E5

    Under cover of darkness.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 13 - Father Image
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 37 - House of the Dead
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - House of the Dead

    S2:E37

    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"" . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 1 - Tidal Wave
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Tidal Wave

    S3:E1

    As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 3 - The Death Waltz
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Death Waltz

    S3:E3

    The Merry Widow?

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 21 - Night of Decision
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Night of Decision

    S3:E21

    General Washington doubts, but is saved.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 32 - The Villa
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Villa

    S3:E32

    A room with a view.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 1 - Delusion
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 27 - The Clown
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Clown

    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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  20. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 6 - The Inheritance
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 7 - The Open Window
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 8 - Message from Clara
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 11 - Dead Ringer
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - 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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 12 - The Stone Cutter
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Stone Cutter

    S2:E12

    A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 16 - The Justice Tree
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Justice Tree

    S2:E16

    Matters of life and death.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Visitor" is the worst rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Newland and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/10/1960. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Signal Received".