John Newland
Director
One Step Beyond (1959)
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.
Released Jan. 20, 1959
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
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Production Companies: Joseph L. Schenck Enterprises
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
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S2E1 - Delusion
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.
Sept. 15, 1959, midnight
S2E2 - Ordeal on Locust Street
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.
Sept. 22, 1959, midnight
S2E3 - Brainwave
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 . . .
Oct. 6, 1959, midnight
S2E4 - Doomsday
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 . . .
Oct. 13, 1959, midnight
S2E5 - Night of the Kill
Under cover of darkness.
Oct. 20, 1959, midnight
S2E6 - The Inheritance
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.
Oct. 27, 1959, midnight
S2E7 - The Open Window
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.
Nov. 3, 1959, midnight
S2E8 - Message from Clara
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.
Nov. 10, 1959, midnight
S2E9 - Forked Lightning
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
Nov. 17, 1959, midnight
S2E10 - Reunion
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
Nov. 24, 1959, midnight
S2E11 - Dead Ringer
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 . . .
Dec. 1, 1959, midnight
S2E12 - The Stone Cutter
A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
Dec. 8, 1959, midnight
S2E13 - Father Image
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.
Dec. 15, 1959, midnight
S2E14 - Make Me Not a Witch
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.
Dec. 22, 1959, midnight
S2E15 - The Hand
""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
Dec. 29, 1959, midnight
S2E16 - The Justice Tree
Matters of life and death.
Jan. 5, 1960, midnight
S2E17 - Earthquake
The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
Jan. 12, 1960, midnight
S2E18 - The Forests of the Night
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
Jan. 19, 1960, midnight
S2E19 - Call from Tomorrow
Don't call us, we'll call you.
Jan. 26, 1960, midnight
S2E20 - Who Are You?
""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
Feb. 2, 1960, midnight
S2E21 - The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
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.
Feb. 9, 1960, midnight
S2E22 - The Lovers
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
Feb. 16, 1960, midnight
S2E23 - Vanishing Point
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.
Feb. 23, 1960, midnight
S2E24 - The Mask
""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice.""
Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
March 1, 1960, midnight
S2E25 - The Haunting
The bridegroom kills the best man.
March 8, 1960, midnight
S2E26 - The Explorer
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?
March 15, 1960, midnight
S2E27 - The Clown
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.
March 22, 1960, midnight
S2E28 - I Saw You Tomorrow
""There is no new thing under the sun.""
Proverbs
April 5, 1960, midnight
S2E29 - Encounter
Without a plane, a pilot appears.
April 12, 1960, midnight
S2E30 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
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.
April 19, 1960, midnight
S2E31 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
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.
April 26, 1960, midnight
S2E32 - Delia
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.
May 3, 1960, midnight
S2E33 - The Visitor
A man returns to his past.
May 10, 1960, midnight
S2E34 - Gypsy
A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.
May 17, 1960, midnight
S2E35 - Contact
A hands-on approach.
May 24, 1960, midnight
S2E36 - The Lonely Room
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.
May 31, 1960, midnight
S2E37 - House of the Dead
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"" . . .
June 7, 1960, midnight
S2E38 - Goodbye Grandpa
An old railroad man keeps his promise.
June 14, 1960, midnight
S2E39 - The Storm
no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm
Beckett
June 21, 1960, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 2910 min.
Released: Jan. 20, 1959
Last Air Date: July 4, 1961, midnight
Status: Canceled
Certification: NR
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