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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!

Worst episode
S3E33 Midnight
5.698 votes
Best episode
S1E3 Emergency Only
7.7421 votes
Top season
Season 1
6.9avg
Binge time
4h 30m
97 episodes

Seasons3

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 33 - Midnight
    5.6/10(98 votes)
    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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  2. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 22 - The Lovers
    5.9/10(142 votes)
    S2:E22

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

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  3. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 30 - Blood Flower
    5.8/10(66 votes)
    S3:E30

    Flores, flores para los muertos.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 39 - The Storm
    6.0/10(132 votes)
    S2:E39

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 21 - Night of Decision
    6.0/10(130 votes)
    S3:E21

    General Washington doubts, but is saved.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 2 - Ordeal on Locust Street
    6.1/10(220 votes)
    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 35 - Contact
    6.0/10(113 votes)
    S2:E35

    A hands-on approach.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 6 - The Inheritance
    6.1/10(188 votes)
    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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  10. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 19 - Call from Tomorrow
    6.1/10(142 votes)
    S2:E19

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 19 - The Gift
    6.1/10(111 votes)
    S3:E19

    Neither shadow of turning.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 9 - Forked Lightning
    6.2/10(185 votes)
    S2:E9

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 4 - Doomsday
    6.3/10(207 votes)
    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 . . .

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 37 - House of the Dead
    6.3/10(140 votes)
    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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  15. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 8 - Premonition
    6.4/10(281 votes)
    S1:E8

    A woman is haunted by the fear of her own demise after witnessing a premonition of her death at the hands of a chandelier in her home.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Paul David

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  16. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 15 - The Aerialist
    6.4/10(270 votes)
    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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  17. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 36 - The Lonely Room
    6.3/10(78 votes)
    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 20 - Person Unknown
    6.4/10(130 votes)
    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 19 - The Captain's Guests
    6.5/10(252 votes)
    S1:E19

    A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.

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  20. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 21 - Front Runner
    6.5/10(233 votes)
    S1:E21

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

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  21. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 32 - Delia
    6.5/10(159 votes)
    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 18 - The Forests of the Night
    6.5/10(149 votes)
    S2:E18

    A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 38 - Goodbye Grandpa
    6.5/10(144 votes)
    S2:E38

    An old railroad man keeps his promise.

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  24. One Step Beyond Season 2 Episode 5 - Night of the Kill
    6.5/10(119 votes)
    S2:E5

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

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 7 - The Dream
    6.6/10(279 votes)
    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.

    Director:John Newland

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  26. One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 22 - The Riddle
    6.6/10(239 votes)
    S1:E22

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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Midnight" is the worst rated episode of One Step Beyond. It scored 5.6/10 from 98 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on June 13, 1961. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Lovers".

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