5.6/1080 votesLoading...#1 - Midnight
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 6/13/1961
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/10115 votesLoading...#2 - The Lovers
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1960
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Joseph Petracca
6.0/10106 votesLoading...#3 - The Storm
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 6/21/1960
no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.0/1050 votesLoading...#4 - Blood Flower
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 5/16/1961
Flores, flores para los muertos.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.1/10180 votesLoading...#5 - Ordeal on Locust Street
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1959
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: N/A
6.1/10153 votesLoading...#6 - The Inheritance
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1959
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: N/A
6.1/10112 votesLoading...#7 - Call from Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1960
Don't call us, we'll call you.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.2/1092 votesLoading...#8 - Contact
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 5/24/1960
A hands-on approach.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.2/1086 votesLoading...#9 - The Gift
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961
Neither shadow of turning.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.2/10110 votesLoading...#10 - Night of Decision
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1961
General Washington doubts, but is saved.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.3/10148 votesLoading...#11 - Forked Lightning
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1959
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.3/10116 votesLoading...#12 - House of the Dead
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 6/7/1960
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: N/A
6.4/10232 votesLoading...#13 - Premonition
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1959
Forewarned is forearmed.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Paul David
6.4/10174 votesLoading...#14 - Doomsday
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1959
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: N/A
6.5/10231 votesLoading...#15 - The Aerialist
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1959
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
6.5/10199 votesLoading...#16 - The Riddle
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/16/1959
An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
6.5/10134 votesLoading...#17 - Delia
Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 5/3/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.5/10116 votesLoading...#18 - Goodbye Grandpa
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 6/14/1960
An old railroad man keeps his promise.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
6.5/10108 votesLoading...#19 - Person Unknown
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1961
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.6/10234 votesLoading...#20 - The Dream
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/1959
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: John Dunkel
6.6/10215 votesLoading...#21 - The Captain's Guests
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Charles Beaumont
6.6/10194 votesLoading...#22 - Front Runner
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/9/1959
A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
6.6/10115 votesLoading...#23 - The Forests of the Night
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1960
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.6/1061 votesLoading...#24 - The Lonely Room
Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 5/31/1960
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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.6/10130 votesLoading...#25 - To Know the End
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1960
...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus
The Worst Episodes of One Step Beyond
Every episode of One Step Beyond ranked from worst to best. Explore 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Midnight" is the worst rated episode of "One Step Beyond". It scored 5.6/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/13/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Lovers".