One Step Beyond (1959)
One Step Beyond (1959)
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.

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2x01 Delusion

15 September, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x02 Ordeal on Locust Street

22 September, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x03 Brainwave

06 October, 1959 8:00 am
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 . . .

2x04 Doomsday

13 October, 1959 8:00 am
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 . . .

2x05 Night of the Kill

20 October, 1959 8:00 am
A runaway child insists that he didn't leave home alone, but that he was accompanied by a huge beast.

2x06 The Inheritance

27 October, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x07 The Open Window

03 November, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x08 Message from Clara

10 November, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x09 Forked Lightning

17 November, 1959 8:00 am
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

2x10 Reunion

24 November, 1959 8:00 am
Germany 1939, a group of young glider enthusiasts are startled to learn of the Third Reich's invasion of Poland. Knowing their lives must now go in separate directions, they plan a reunion picnic for the first Sunday following the war's conclusion. Who will still be alive and/or able to attend?

2x11 Dead Ringer

01 December, 1959 8:00 am
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 . . .

2x12 The Stone Cutter

08 December, 1959 8:00 am
Elderly Simon Lockhart is convinced that he will die in just a few days, because a mysterious stone cutter has already chiseled that date onto his tombstone

2x13 Father Image

15 December, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x14 Make Me Not a Witch

22 December, 1959 8:00 am
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.

2x15 The Hand

29 December, 1959 8:00 am
In a jealous rage, a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands.

2x16 The Justice Tree

05 January, 1960 8:00 am
Convicted killer Calvin Gannis is being escorted to this place of execution but escapes after a road accident, finding himself in a ghost town, seemingly inhabited by only the widowed Sally and her young son Joey. However, an oak tree which has been dead for decades suddenly starts to grow again, spelling out justice for Gannis.

2x17 Earthquake

12 January, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x18 The Forests of the Night

19 January, 1960 8:00 am
Three friends on a hunting trip idling away a rainy day stumble upon a mysterious Chinese game that promises to make a man what he is not, such as a mouse a tiger. After playing the game, a mild-mannered member of the trio begins acting strangely.

2x19 Call from Tomorrow

26 January, 1960 8:00 am
A famous actress has a complete breakdown after the death of her young daughter. After she recovers she returns home, only to be convinced that she can hear her daughter calling to her from beyond the grave.

2x20 Who Are You?

02 February, 1960 8:00 am
In the 1900s, Laurie Warren, recovering from scarlet fever it was feared would kill her, travels to the home of a Mr and Mrs Mason, whose daughter has recently died and imagines that she is that daughter rejecting her parents when they come after her. However things change after Mrs Mason discovers that she is pregnant and Laurie recovers her old self.

2x21 The Day the World Wept: The Lincoln Story

09 February, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x22 The Lovers

16 February, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x23 Vanishing Point

23 February, 1960 8:00 am
Quarrelsome couple Fred and Mary Graham rent an old house but, following an argument, Mary disappears. Fred is tried for her murder but released for lack of evidence. However, he discovers that several previous occupants of the house have also mysteriously vanished without trace.

2x24 The Mask

01 March, 1960 8:00 am
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!

2x25 The Haunting

08 March, 1960 8:00 am
Suspecting his friend Peter of having an affair with his bride-to-be, Colin Chandler allows him to die following a climbing accident. However ghostly happenings interrupt the wedding ceremony resulting in punishment for Colin and his eventual breakdown.

2x26 The Explorer

15 March, 1960 8:00 am
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?

2x27 The Clown

22 March, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x28 I Saw You Tomorrow

05 April, 1960 8:00 am
While visiting a country estate for the weekend, a man hears an argument in the room across the hall. He investigates and witnesses a man striking a woman and killing her. A few hours later, he sees the same couple at dinner.

2x29 Encounter

12 April, 1960 9:00 am
A small construction crew is set on edge when a pilot and his plane suddenly disappear, his last radio message frantically reporting a mountain descending from the clouds and coming right at him. While searching for their colleague, UFO skeptics and believers among the crew debate reported sightings and evidence.

2x30 The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

19 April, 1960 9:00 am
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.

2x31 The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

26 April, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x32 Delia

03 May, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x33 The Visitor

10 May, 1960 8:00 am
Alcoholic Ellen Grayson summons her husband Harry to her isolated house to announce their marriage is over, after which he crashes his car. Helen is then visited by a man, the exact double of a much younger Harry, whose account of the love his has for his wife moves her to reconciliation and inadvertently saving her husband's life.

2x34 Gypsy

17 May, 1960 8:00 am
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.

2x35 Contact

24 May, 1960 8:00 am
Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his mind plotting a heinous murder. Could this unsettling phenomenon possibly be linked to the antique pocket watch he received as a gift from his wife?

2x36 The Lonely Room

31 May, 1960 8:00 am
Shy Henri looks out his window one day and sees himself strolling down the street with pretty Therese.

2x37 House of the Dead

07 June, 1960 8:00 am
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"" . . .

2x38 Goodbye Grandpa

14 June, 1960 8:00 am
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.

2x39 The Storm

21 June, 1960 8:00 am
A dead artist's fame rests on one painting, unfinished when he died but now complete.

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