The BEST episodes of One Step Beyond season 2
Every episode of One Step Beyond season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of One Step Beyond season 2!
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 . . .
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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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.
#8 - 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
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#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 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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!
#15 - 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"" . . .
#16 - 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.
#17 - Vanishing Point
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1960
Quarrelsome couple Fred and Mary Graham rent an old house but, following an argument, Mary disappears. Fred is tried for her murder but released for lack of evidence. However, he discovers that several previous occupants of the house have also mysteriously vanished without trace.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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 . . .
#20 - Encounter
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/12/1960
A small construction crew is set on edge when a pilot and his plane suddenly disappear, his last radio message frantically reporting a mountain descending from the clouds and coming right at him. While searching for their colleague, UFO skeptics and believers among the crew debate reported sightings and evidence.
#21 - Make Me Not a Witch
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1959
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.
#22 - The Forests of the Night
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1960
Three friends on a hunting trip idling away a rainy day stumble upon a mysterious Chinese game that promises to make a man what he is not, such as a mouse a tiger. After playing the game, a mild-mannered member of the trio begins acting strangely.
#23 - Who Are You?
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1960
In the 1900s, Laurie Warren, recovering from scarlet fever it was feared would kill her, travels to the home of a Mr and Mrs Mason, whose daughter has recently died and imagines that she is that daughter rejecting her parents when they come after her. However things change after Mrs Mason discovers that she is pregnant and Laurie recovers her old self.
#24 - The Justice Tree
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1960
Convicted killer Calvin Gannis is being escorted to this place of execution but escapes after a road accident, finding himself in a ghost town, seemingly inhabited by only the widowed Sally and her young son Joey. However, an oak tree which has been dead for decades suddenly starts to grow again, spelling out justice for Gannis.
#25 - Call from Tomorrow
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1960
A famous actress has a complete breakdown after the death of her young daughter. After she recovers she returns home, only to be convinced that she can hear her daughter calling to her from beyond the grave.