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The Worst Episodes of One Step Beyond

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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  1. Background image for Midnight
    5.6/10(81 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Lovers
    5.9/10(121 votes)

    #2 - The Lovers

    S2:E22

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

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  3. Background image for The Storm
    6.0/10(109 votes)

    #3 - The Storm

    S2:E39

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

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Night of Decision
    6.0/10(112 votes)

    #4 - Night of Decision

    S3:E21

    General Washington doubts, but is saved.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Blood Flower
    6.0/10(52 votes)

    #5 - Blood Flower

    S3:E30

    Flores, flores para los muertos.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Ordeal on Locust Street
    6.1/10(187 votes)

    #6 - Ordeal on Locust Street

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Inheritance
    6.1/10(160 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Call from Tomorrow
    6.2/10(116 votes)

    #8 - Call from Tomorrow

    S2:E19

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

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Contact
    6.2/10(93 votes)

    #9 - Contact

    S2:E35

    A hands-on approach.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Gift
    6.2/10(92 votes)

    #10 - The Gift

    S3:E19

    Neither shadow of turning.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Forked Lightning
    6.3/10(154 votes)

    #11 - Forked Lightning

    S2:E9

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

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for House of the Dead
    6.3/10(119 votes)

    #12 - 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"" . . .

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Premonition
    6.4/10(246 votes)

    #13 - Premonition

    S1:E8

    Forewarned is forearmed.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Paul David
  15. Background image for Doomsday
    6.4/10(180 votes)

    #14 - Doomsday

    S2:E4

    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 . . .

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Person Unknown
    6.4/10(111 votes)

    #15 - Person Unknown

    S3:E20

    In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Aerialist
    6.5/10(243 votes)

    #16 - The Aerialist

    S1:E15

    An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.

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  18. Background image for Delia
    6.5/10(141 votes)

    #17 - Delia

    S2:E32

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Lonely Room
    6.5/10(63 votes)

    #18 - The Lonely Room

    S2:E36

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Dream
    6.6/10(248 votes)

    #19 - The Dream

    S1:E7

    In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

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    Director:John Newland
  21. Background image for The Captain's Guests
    6.6/10(228 votes)

    #20 - The Captain's Guests

    S1:E19

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

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  22. Background image for Front Runner
    6.6/10(203 votes)

    #21 - Front Runner

    S1:E21

    A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

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  23. Background image for The Riddle
    6.6/10(206 votes)

    #22 - The Riddle

    S1:E22

    An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

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  24. Background image for Delusion
    6.6/10(205 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Forests of the Night
    6.6/10(122 votes)

    #24 - The Forests of the Night

    S2:E18

    A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Goodbye Grandpa
    6.6/10(121 votes)

    #25 - Goodbye Grandpa

    S2:E38

    An old railroad man keeps his promise.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Midnight" is the worst rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 5.6/10 based on 81 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/13/1961. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Lovers".