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 - 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.
#3 - 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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#5 - Brainwave
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1959
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 . . .
#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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.
#9 - 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"" . . .
#10 - Goodbye Grandpa
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/14/1960
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.
#11 - The Storm
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/21/1960
A dead artist's fame rests on one painting, unfinished when he died but now complete.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Gift
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961
A phony fortuneteller has a real vision: she sees her son committing a murder.
#17 - Night of Decision
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1961
The Continental Army is camped at Valley Forge and Washington is debating whether to surrender to the English.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Prisoner
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/2/1961
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
#22 - Blood Flower
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/16/1961
A political theorist, who doesn't believe in involvement, sniffs a rare flower and becomes a fiery revolutionary.
#23 - The Sorcerer
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/23/1961
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Eyewitness
Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/4/1961
A newspaperman goes into a trance and writes a story about a volcano eruption the day before it happens.