One Step Beyond (Season 2)

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.

  • Poster for Delusion

    Delusion (Episode 1) 5.5

    Air date: 1959-09-15

    Overview: A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.

  • Poster for Ordeal on Locust Street

    Ordeal on Locust Street (Episode 2) 10.0

    Air date: 1959-09-22

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Brainwave

    Brainwave (Episode 3) 5.0

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

    Air date: 1959-10-06

    Overview: During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .

  • Poster for Doomsday

    Doomsday (Episode 4) 8.0

    Air date: 1959-10-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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 . . .

  • Poster for Night of the Kill

    Night of the Kill (Episode 5) 5.0

    Air date: 1959-10-20

    Overview: Under cover of darkness.

  • Poster for The Inheritance

    The Inheritance (Episode 6) 6.0

    Air date: 1959-10-27

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Open Window

    The Open Window (Episode 7) 6.0

    Air date: 1959-11-03

    Overview: On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempted suicide by a young woman in the adjacent building. He rushes next door to save her . . . but he finds the apartment empty! Later, when the exact same vision is repeated, he begins to doubt his sanity.

  • Poster for Message from Clara

    Message from Clara (Episode 8) 6.0

    Air date: 1959-11-10

    Overview: An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.

  • Poster for Forked Lightning

    Forked Lightning (Episode 9) 7.0

    Air date: 1959-11-17

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

  • Poster for Reunion

    Reunion (Episode 10) 7.0

    Air date: 1959-11-24

    Overview: World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

  • Poster for Dead Ringer

    Dead Ringer (Episode 11) 6.0

    Air date: 1959-12-01

    Overview: A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .

  • Poster for The Stone Cutter

    The Stone Cutter (Episode 12) 6.0

    Air date: 1959-12-08

    Overview: A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

  • Poster for Father Image

    Father Image (Episode 13) 5.0

    Air date: 1959-12-15

    Overview: Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand why he never sold the place, until an accident causes Dan to go back in time and discover the reason.

  • Poster for Make Me Not a Witch

    Make Me Not a Witch (Episode 14) 7.0

    Air date: 1959-12-22

    Overview: A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.

  • Poster for The Hand

    The Hand (Episode 15) 8.0

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

    Air date: 1959-12-29

    Overview: ""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

  • Poster for The Justice Tree

    The Justice Tree (Episode 16) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-01-05

    Overview: Matters of life and death.

  • Poster for Earthquake

    Earthquake (Episode 17) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-01-12

    Overview: The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

  • Poster for The Forests of the Night

    The Forests of the Night (Episode 18) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-01-19

    Overview: A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

  • Poster for Call from Tomorrow

    Call from Tomorrow (Episode 19) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-01-26

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

  • Poster for Who Are You?

    Who Are You? (Episode 20) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-02-02

    Overview: ""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)

  • Poster for The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story

    The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story (Episode 21) 4.0

    Air date: 1960-02-09

    Overview: In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln has a dream in which he foresees his own death. His wife Mary has a similarly fatalistic vision but other, ordinary Americans who have never met Lincoln, also experience psychic phenomena. The next evening the president goes to Ford's Theatre where his killer is waiting.

  • Poster for The Lovers

    The Lovers (Episode 22) 7.0

    Writer: Joseph Petracca

    Air date: 1960-02-16

    Overview: Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

  • Poster for Vanishing Point

    Vanishing Point (Episode 23) 7.0

    Air date: 1960-02-23

    Overview: Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he's accused of murdering her.

  • Poster for The Mask

    The Mask (Episode 24) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-03-01

    Overview: ""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

  • Poster for The Haunting

    The Haunting (Episode 25) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-03-08

    Overview: The bridegroom kills the best man.

  • Poster for The Explorer

    The Explorer (Episode 26) 7.0

    Air date: 1960-03-15

    Overview: An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the region's ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?

  • Poster for The Clown

    The Clown (Episode 27) 5.5

    Writer: Gabrielle Upton

    Air date: 1960-03-22

    Overview: A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

  • Poster for I Saw You Tomorrow

    I Saw You Tomorrow (Episode 28) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-04-05

    Overview: ""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs

  • Poster for Encounter

    Encounter (Episode 29) 7.0

    Air date: 1960-04-12

    Overview: Without a plane, a pilot appears.

  • Poster for The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

    The Peter Hurkos Story (1) (Episode 30) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-04-19

    Overview: Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

  • Poster for The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

    The Peter Hurkos Story (2) (Episode 31) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-04-26

    Overview: Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with assisting in the capture of real-life serial killers. Hurkos himself finally appears on screen.

  • Poster for Delia

    Delia (Episode 32) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-05-03

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Visitor

    The Visitor (Episode 33)

    Air date: 1960-05-10

    Overview: A man returns to his past.

  • Poster for Gypsy

    Gypsy (Episode 34) 7.0

    Air date: 1960-05-17

    Overview: A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

  • Poster for Contact

    Contact (Episode 35) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-05-24

    Overview: A hands-on approach.

  • Poster for The Lonely Room

    The Lonely Room (Episode 36) 6.0

    Air date: 1960-05-31

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for House of the Dead

    House of the Dead (Episode 37) 6.5

    Air date: 1960-06-07

    Overview: 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"" . . .

  • Poster for Goodbye Grandpa

    Goodbye Grandpa (Episode 38) 6.0

    Writer: Lawrence B. Marcus

    Air date: 1960-06-14

    Overview: An old railroad man keeps his promise.

  • Poster for The Storm

    The Storm (Episode 39) 7.0

    Air date: 1960-06-21

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

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