NaN/100 votes#1 - Tsunami
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/1978
On the West Coast, an autistic 12-year-old boy is the only person aware of an approaching tidal wave, but how can he communicate this critical information to all those in danger?
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- 5.6/1012 votes
#2 - The Return of Cary De Witt
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired Unknown
Following an appendectomy with complications, Cary DeWitt awakens after a ten-day coma. When he visits Tahiti soon after his recovery, however, everybody insists he has been there recently - despite the fact his body was unconscious and 6,000 miles away in a hospital. Worse, DeWitt's "waking spirit" racked up a sizable hotel debt, and had an affair with a beautiful, and important, young native named Tiare.
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- 6.3/1012 votes
#3 - Possessed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired Unknown
A couple desperate to save their marriage embark on a doomed road trip. As they drive over a dam, wife Caroline is suddenly possessed by the spirit of a dead Hispanic woman. Her husband and the authorities are confounded by the event, but the possession has a purpose: dead Maria Robles wants to prove that her husband, incarcerated in the local jail, did not murder her.
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Love Connection
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired Unknown
There is a strange, psychic bond between young gymnast Jill August and the catatonic, mourning Harriet Jessup - despite the fact the two have never met. When Jill awakens from an unexpected coma, she is possessed by the spirit of Harriet's dead daughter, Karen. Karen's purpose in returning from the beyond is to tell her grieving mother that love never dies.
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- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Ondine's Curse
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired Unknown
A man suffering from Ondine's Curse, a rare condition which mimics death, is left for dead after an encounter with a violent hitchhiker. His wife, the only person aware of his strange condition, utilizes her psychic abilities to locate her husband before he is laid to rest.
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- 5.8/106 votes
#6 - Dream of Disaster
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired Unknown
A pregnant woman has fierce, violent nightmares of a plane crash in which a Cessna 172 goes down and crashes into her room. Her husband, an air-traffic controller, comes to believe her premonition as real-life events unfold just as she foresaw. He moves her to a motel for safety - but that shift of location could be the very catalyst which triggers the disaster.
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Ghost Town
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired Unknown
A fashion model inexplicably experiences a vision of murder, unaware that what she is witnessing is a crime more than a quarter-century old.
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#8 - Drums at Midnight
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired Unknown
An angry would-be heir resorts to voodoo and witchery to get her share of the wealth when she learns that her young stepmother is the main beneficiary of her dead father's enormous estate. The would-be heir finds, however, that the black arts are not to be trifled with.
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Portrait of the Mind
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired Unknown
When apprehended for the robbery of a liquor store, an innocent ex-con must depend on the psychic abilities of a police artist who can draw the psychic impressions left behind in the subconscious of the robbery eyewitnesses.
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- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Other Voices
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired Unknown
Upon his return home from a party, a man has a powerful premonition of a drunken party-goer murdering his wife. Hoping to prevent the act of murder, Walter acts on his unusual precognition.
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - A Matter of Pride
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired Unknown
A powerful hypnotic suggestion implanted before his last fight plagues down-on-his-luck boxer, Manny Guzman, and may be the only thing that can save a young diabetic from certain death.
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Ghost of Cellblock Two
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired Unknown
A fifty-year-old murder and a vengeful spirit play roles in this unusual mystery about a young woman, mistakenly arrested, who finds herself in a haunted prison cell.
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- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Legacy
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired Unknown
The ghost of a dead railroad worker utilizes his grandson's highly-detailed toy railroad cars and diorama to pinpoint to authorities the exact locations where a ruthless criminal plans to derail trains.
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- 6.0/107 votes
#14 - Cry Baby
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired Unknown
While her husband is away for a weekend at a "back to nature" seminar, Susan Elston is cornered in their isolated mountain home by an intruder bent on rape. At the seminar, Susan's husband hears the persistent cries of a baby-the cries of the as-yet unborn child in Susan's stomach-calling him home to help his wife.
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- 6.6/1010 votes
#15 - Greed
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired Unknown
The Barlows, a financially troubled couple, face a future of bankruptcy, creditors, and debt. Forced to stay in a run-down hotel, the Barlows are shocked when a story that could solve all their problems materializes on Phil's typewriter. The story concerns two brothers, the Whittakers, who succumb to greed and corruption in their mountain search for gold.
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- 6.2/107 votes
#16 - Out of Body
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired Unknown
When Susan Lambert is found murdered in the mountains, her fiance Randall Priest is arrested and tried for the crime, even though he insists he was far away, meditating, during the incident.
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- 5.5/108 votes
#17 - Key to Yesterday
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired Unknown
Following his father's death, a young man named Daniel reopens a theater closed nearly 30 years earlier. The establishment once belonged to Daniel's father, and it could be the key to solving a murder committed long ago. As Daniel grows more intrigued by a psychic vision, he learns that adultery is the least of his father's sins.
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- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Woman in the Mirror
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired Unknown
A man who has gotten away with the murder of his wife sees justice finally reach him each time he looks in a mirror. He is finally undone by his guilty conscience.
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- 7.6/1010 votes
#19 - The Haunted Inn
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired Unknown
A lost traveler receives directions to a nearby inn from a beautiful woman in a flowing white gown.
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- 6.3/1012 votes
#20 - The Pact
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired Unknown
A gypsy prophecy from the distant past continues to haunt three siblings, even after twenty years. But is the prophecy actually a self-fulfilling one?
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- 6.3/1011 votes
#21 - Sin of Omission
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired Unknown
In the upstairs bedroom of their newly purchased house, Diane Hollis hears the cries of a child in pain. Diane believes she is going crazy, but soon she and her husband both witness apparitions in their living room.
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- 6.1/1012 votes
#22 - Thunderbolt
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired Unknown
A freak storm spurs a shared premonition of death for two very different individuals.
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- NaN/100 votes
#23 - The Confession
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/7/1978
A man is convicted of murdering his wife, but he knows he is innocent - despite a persistent mental fugue which seems to confirm his guilt. As events snowball, the man realizes he may be witnessing the mental confession of the killer.
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- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Trance of Death
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired Unknown
After a freak accident during a karate class, Sharon Weaver begins to develop powerful psychic abilities - abilities which come in handy when the daughter of a friend finds herself in deadly danger.
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- 6.2/108 votes
#25 - To Fight a Ghost
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1979
A lonely woman is desperate for closure after three years of worrying about her husband, an archaeologist missing and presumed dead in Venezuela. When she is attacked in the park by an ex-student, Cathy LeMasters gets her answer at long last, and the spirit of her husband comes to her defense.
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The Best Episodes of The Next Step Beyond Season 1
Every episode of The Next Step Beyond Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Next Step Beyond Season 1!
An updated version of the popular series from the late 50's and early 60's, One Step Beyond. Still hosted by John Newland, this series looked...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Tsunami" is the best rated episode of "The Next Step Beyond" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/1/1978. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Return of Cary De Witt".