The BEST episodes of One Step Beyond
Every episode of One Step Beyond ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of One Step Beyond!
During the era of The Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond is a show that told real stories about supernatural encounters. Host John Newland narrated stories of ghosts, monsters, mysterious disappearances, and supernatural circumstances in which no logical answer to explain the events was found. Along with dramatic and eerie re-enactments, viewers couldn't help but wonder if the paranormal truly exists.
#2 - Dead Ringer
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1959
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 . . .
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#3 - The Executioner
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1961
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
#5 - The Return
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1960
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.
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#6 - The Hand
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1959
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.
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#7 - Nightmare
Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/27/1961
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.
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#8 - The Sorcerer
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/23/1961
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
#11 - Signal Received
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1961
Three sailors from the H.M.S. Hood ship have premonitions; two see death, but one sees living to an old age.
#12 - The Face
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1961
Since childhood, Stephen Bolt's dreams have been haunted by a man intent on destroying him.
#13 - Justice
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1961
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.
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#16 - The Sacred Mushroom
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1961
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.
#17 - Where Are They?
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1960
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.
#18 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
#19 - If You See Sally
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1960
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.
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#20 - The Visitor
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/10/1960
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.
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#21 - Earthquake
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1960
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.
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#22 - The Explorer
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/15/1960
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?
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#23 - The Open Window
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1959
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.
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#24 - Message from Clara
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1959
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.
