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.
#1 - 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 . . .
#2 - 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?
#3 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
#4 - 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.
#5 - House of the Dead
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/7/1960
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"" . . .
#6 - The Lonely Room
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/31/1960
Shy Henri looks out his window one day and sees himself strolling down the street with pretty Therese.
#7 - Delia
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/3/1960
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.
#8 - The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/26/1960
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.
#9 - I Saw You Tomorrow
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/5/1960
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.
#10 - The Mask
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1960
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!
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Stone Cutter
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1959
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
#14 - Forked Lightning
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1959
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Night of the Kill
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1959
A runaway child insists that he didn't leave home alone, but that he was accompanied by a huge beast.
#18 - Dead Man's Tale
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1961
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.
#19 - The Aerialist
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1959
An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.
#20 - Father Image
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1959
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.
#21 - The Death Waltz
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1960
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
#22 - 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.
#23 - Rendezvous
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1960
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.
#24 - Legacy of Love
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1960
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!
#25 - 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.