ONE STEP BEYOND

Airing nine months before the similar The Twilight Zone, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond was an American anthology television series broadcast on the ABC network from 1959 through 1961 Created by Merwin Gerard and produced by the prolific producer Collier Young, the program was hosted by John Newland, "your guide to the supernatural". Newland presented tales which explored paranormal events and various situations that defied logical explanation. Unlike other anthology programmers, this ABC network series episodes were presented in the form of straightforward thirty-minute docudramas, all said to be based on true events. Initially, the program included the corporate name of the sponsor Alcoa as its full title. Among its varied tales, One Step Beyond dealt with premonition of death ("The Lincoln Assassination") and disaster ("Tidal Wave", "Night of April 14th"); astral projection ("The Long Call"); the existence of ghosts ("The Last Time"); and wildly improbable coincidence ("The Glider", "Death on the Mountain", etc.). In one episode dealing with the discovery of mind-altering drugs, circa 1960, Newland traveled to Mexico, where he met with a local doctor who was experimenting with LSD. The then-unknown drug was purportedly able to increase the user's psychic powers. On camera, the TV host ingested a dose and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast. Many not-yet famous actors appeared in these production, including Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Warren Beatty, Christopher Lee, Robert Blake, and Pernell Roberts. A total of 96 episodes were filmed

 

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Season 1, Episode 2: Night of April 14th Original Air Date: 27 January 1959
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.   STREAM

 

Season 1, Episode 4: The Dark Room Original Air Date: 10 February 1959
A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Things come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.

 

Season 1, Episode 7: The Dream Original Air Date: 3 March 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.

 

Season 1, Episode 9: The Dead Part of the House Original Air Date: 17 March 1959
A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.

 

 

Season 1, Episode 12: The Return of Mitchell Campion Original Air Date: 7 April 1959
A man visiting a small Mediterranean island is stunned when all of the island's residents recognize him and insist that he is an island resident who has returned after many years, even though he knows he has never been there before.

 

 

Season 1, Episode 19: The Captain's Guests Original Air Date: 26 May 1959
A young couple move into a house on the New England coast, even though they are warned by the locals that the house is haunted. They soon find out how right the locals were when the ghost of the former owner, a sea captain, begins to take control

 

 

Season 1, Episode 20: Echo Original Air Date: 2 June 1959
Paul Martin is acquitted by a jury of the murder of his wife, although most people believe he did in fact kill her. To escape questioning reporters, he takes a house in the country. Soon, however, he begins to have premonitions of his own murder, and is shocked one day when his dead wife's brother shows up at his front door.

 

Season 1, Episode 21: Front Runner Original Air Date: 9 June 1959
Two rival jockeys compete for the top spot at a racetrack, but one of them has an unexpected brush with the supernatural that may give him the edge.

 

 

Season 1, Episode 22: The Riddle Original Air Date: 16 June 1959
On a trip through India, a married couple encounters a beggar who seems to be different from all the others they've seen--the husband is convinced that this particular beggar is trying to kill them.

 

Season 2, Episode 9: Forked Lightning Original Air Date: 17 November 1959
Two men who don't know each other find that their lives are intertwined by a strange psychic connection that may end up in the deaths of both.

 

 

 

Season 2, Episode 17: Earthquake Original Air Date: 12 January 1960
In 1906 San Francisco, many famous people gather at a hotel to hear renowned opera singer Enrico Caruso perform. However, a bellboy at the hotel suddenly has visions of impending mass destruction and death, but he can't get anyone to listen to him.

 

 

\Season 2, Episode 22: The Lovers Original Air Date: 16 February 1960
Evil spirits are determined to break up the romance between Otto, a patron at a Viennese tavern, and Elsa, a beautiful waitress there. But the connection between the two lovers seems to be stronger than the spirits counted on.

 

 

Season 2, Episode 23: Vanishing Point Original Air Date: 23 February 1960 

A man is accused of murder after his wife mysteriously disappears. Then, he realizes that previous residents of the bizarre house have also vanished in the past.

 

Season 2, Episode 24: The Mask Original Air Date: 1 March 1960
During World War II, Lt. Wilenski bails out of a crippled plane over the Sahara Desert, but the harsh and unrelenting conditions in the desert almost result in his death. After his rescue, however, he and his rescuers are stunned to discover that he not only has somehow acquired the memory of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, but also has the monarch's facial features!

 

Season 2, Episode 28: I Saw You Tomorrow Original Air Date: 5 April 1960
As he arrives at a large mansion, a man suddenly has a vision of a woman being murdered. Later, he is stunned to see the woman he saw in the vision show up as a guest at the estate.

 

 

Season 2, Episode 32: Delia Original Air Date: 3 May 1960
A man disillusioned with life meets the woman of his dreams on a tropical island. When she suddenly disappears his life begins to spiral out of control, and in his desperation he begins to believe he is having encounters with the supernatural.

 

 

Season 2, Episode 34: Gypsy Original Air Date: 17 May 1960
A convict who has just escaped from prison meets up with a mysterious gypsy, who convinces him that it is best for him to return to the prison from which he has just escaped. The convict soon begins to realize that the there was quite a bit more to the gypsy than there at first appeared to be.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 2: Anniversary of a Murder Original Air Date: 27 September 1960
A married businessman is having a secret affair, and one night while he's driving home drunk from a rendezvous with his mistress, he runs over and kills a young boy. No one saw him so he believes he got away with it, but soon he is astonished to hear what he believes to be his victim's voice on his dictaphone.

 

Season 3, Episode 6: Moment of Hate Original Air Date: 25 October 1960
A successful but driven businesswoman, Karen Wadsworth, is convinced that she can make her thoughts become reality. She soon begins to believe that she can use the power of suggestion and turn it into the power to kill.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 7: To Know the End Original Air Date: 1 November 1960
Emily MacDougall, a young woman living in England during World War II, begins to have strange hallucinations of death and destruction. What she doesn't realize is that her visions may threaten not only the man who is closest to her, but the entire country as well.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 8: The Trap Original Air Date: 15 November 1960
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 11: Tonight at 12:17 Original Air Date: 6 December 1960
Laura Perkins is expecting a baby, and the pregnancy is worrying her. She is soon shocked to discover, however, that her condition has resulted in her having extraordinary psychic powers. She determines to use these new powers to save the life of her unborn child.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 14: Rendezvous Original Air Date: 27 December 1960
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.

 

 

Season 3, Episode 16: The Last Round Original Air Date: 10 January 1961
A prizefighter who has fallen on very hard times is visited by the ghost of a fellow boxer, who reminds him of a terrifying old legend that may well come true.