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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!

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.

Genres:MysteryDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "One Step Beyond" is "Midnight", rated 5.5/10 from 79 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Midnight" aired on 6/13/1961 and is rated 0.3 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Lovers".

  • Midnight
    5.5/10 79 votes

    #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

  • The Lovers
    5.8/10 113 votes

    #2 - The Lovers

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1960

    Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Joseph Petracca

  • The Storm
    6.0/10 105 votes

    #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

  • Blood Flower
    6.0/10 49 votes

    #4 - Blood Flower

    Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 5/16/1961

    Flores, flores para los muertos.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • Ordeal on Locust Street
    6.1/10 176 votes

    #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

  • The Inheritance
    6.1/10 149 votes

    #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

  • The Gift
    6.2/10 85 votes

    #7 - The Gift

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961

    Neither shadow of turning.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • Night of Decision
    6.2/10 108 votes

    #8 - Night of Decision

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1961

    General Washington doubts, but is saved.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • Forked Lightning
    6.3/10 145 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Call from Tomorrow
    6.3/10 109 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Contact
    6.3/10 91 votes

    #11 - Contact

    Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 5/24/1960

    A hands-on approach.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • House of the Dead
    6.3/10 114 votes

    #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

  • Premonition
    6.4/10 227 votes

    #13 - Premonition

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1959

    Forewarned is forearmed.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Paul David

  • Doomsday
    6.4/10 172 votes

    #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

  • The Aerialist
    6.5/10 230 votes

    #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

  • The Riddle
    6.5/10 197 votes

    #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

  • The Forests of the Night
    6.5/10 112 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Delia
    6.5/10 132 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Goodbye Grandpa
    6.5/10 113 votes

    #19 - Goodbye Grandpa

    Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 6/14/1960

    An old railroad man keeps his promise.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

  • Person Unknown
    6.5/10 106 votes

    #20 - 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

  • The Dream
    6.6/10 229 votes

    #21 - 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

  • The Captain's Guests
    6.6/10 213 votes

    #22 - The Captain's Guests

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959

    The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • Front Runner
    6.6/10 192 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Night of the Kill
    6.6/10 92 votes

    #24 - Night of the Kill

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1959

    Under cover of darkness.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lonely Room
    6.6/10 60 votes

    #25 - 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