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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3x01 Tidal Wave
30 August, 1960 8:00 am
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.
3x02 Anniversary of a Murder
27 September, 1960 9:00 am
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .
3x03 The Death Waltz
04 October, 1960 8:00 am
An Army commander's daughter manipulates two suitors to do her will, not happy with one of the suitors she asks her father to send him away on a mission so she can attend the dance with the other. The unwanted suitor returns for the first and last dance
3x04 The Return
11 October, 1960 8:00 am
On patrol during the Korean war young corporal Fred Cossage gets separated from the rest of his unit who, after a fruitless search for him, give him up as dead and return behind their own lines. But Cossage is still alive and, despite being blinded and severely wounded, is able via psychic help to make a return.
3x05 If You See Sally
18 October, 1960 8:00 am
Pa Ellis blames his daughter Sally following the accidental death of her brother Paul and she moves to the city but Pa relents and asks her to come home. Sally sets out to hitch-hike and is caught up in a terrible storm and killed. However, over the following years many drivers on the road where Sally perished see her ghost thumbing lifts and some pick her up though she never makes it back home.
3x06 Moment of Hate
25 October, 1960 8:00 am
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.
3x07 To Know the End
01 November, 1960 8:00 am
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.
3x08 The Trap
15 November, 1960 8:00 am
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.
3x09 The Voice
22 November, 1960 8:00 am
A reporter investigating a case of arson is driven by a voice that encourages more fires.
3x10 The Promise
29 November, 1960 8:00 am
A bomb deactivator in postwar London who decides to dismantle just one last bomb.
3x11 Tonight at 12:17
06 December, 1960 8:00 am
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
3x12 Where Are They?
13 December, 1960 8:00 am
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.
3x13 Legacy of Love
20 December, 1960 8:00 am
Marianne Darelle plans to go to Woodmere, a seaside resort, for her vacation. She is sold a ticket to Seaside instead. She exchanges the ticket, but still ends up in Seaside!
3x14 Rendezvous
27 December, 1960 8:00 am
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.
3x15 The Executioner
03 January, 1961 8:00 am
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
3x16 The Last Round
10 January, 1961 8:00 am
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.
3x17 Dead Man's Tale
17 January, 1961 8:00 am
Former newsman Phillip Werris and his wife Jan face poverty, when their attempt at farming fails. Werris, in desperation, sits down to write some free-lance articles for his old paper, and does so - in his sleep.
3x18 The Sacred Mushroom
24 January, 1961 8:00 am
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.
3x19 The Gift
31 January, 1961 8:00 am
A phony fortuneteller has a real vision: she sees her son committing a murder.
3x20 Person Unknown
07 February, 1961 8:00 am
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.
3x21 Night of Decision
21 February, 1961 8:00 am
The Continental Army is camped at Valley Forge and Washington is debating whether to surrender to the English.
3x22 The Stranger
28 February, 1961 8:00 am
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
3x23 Justice
07 March, 1961 8:00 am
In a small Welch town, Wyndham Roberts flags down a constable, leads him to a young woman's body, and confesses to her murder. Witnesses testify, however, that Roberts was in church at the time, nodding off during the sermon. Though it seems impossible that Roberts could be in two places at once, Constable Jones maintains that he did confess the murder.
3x24 The Face
14 March, 1961 8:00 am
Since childhood, Stephen Bolt's dreams have been haunted by a man intent on destroying him.
3x25 The Room Upstairs
21 March, 1961 8:00 am
Insanity in the family has made Esther Hollis leery of having children. Then one night, upstairs, she hears the sobs of a crying child.
3x26 Signal Received
04 April, 1961 9:00 am
Three sailors from the H.M.S. Hood ship have premonitions; two see death, but one sees living to an old age.
3x27 The Confession
11 April, 1961 9:00 am
A lawyer having put an innocent man on death row for a woman he knows to be alive and not dead, is haunted by his actions.
3x28 The Avengers
25 April, 1961 9:00 am
A Nazi general, in charge of the Chateau de la Marre district of France, plans a special party for some French peasants in his area - before sending them to labor camps. It's the general's wish to duplicate precisely a celebration held in the Chateau a century and a half ago
3x29 The Prisoner
02 May, 1961 8:00 am
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
3x30 Blood Flower
16 May, 1961 8:00 am
A political theorist, who doesn't believe in involvement, sniffs a rare flower and becomes a fiery revolutionary.
3x31 The Sorcerer
23 May, 1961 8:00 am
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
3x32 The Villa
06 June, 1961 8:00 am
At a party, a hypnotized girl becomes hysterical because of a vision.
3x33 Midnight
13 June, 1961 8:00 am
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.
3x34 The Tiger
20 June, 1961 8:00 am
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
3x35 Nightmare
27 June, 1961 8:00 am
Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.
3x36 Eyewitness
04 July, 1961 8:00 am
A newspaperman goes into a trance and writes a story about a volcano eruption the day before it happens.
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