The BEST episodes of One Step Beyond season 3
Every episode of One Step Beyond season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of One Step Beyond season 3!
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 Voice
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1960
A reporter investigating a case of arson is driven by a voice that encourages more fires.
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#2 - The Promise
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1960
A bomb deactivator in postwar London who decides to dismantle just one last bomb.
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#3 - 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.
#4 - 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 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
#7 - 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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#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Person Unknown
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1961
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.
#11 - The Trap
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1960
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.
#12 - The Gift
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961
A phony fortuneteller has a real vision: she sees her son committing a murder.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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
#18 - The Tiger
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/20/1961
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
#19 - 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!
#20 - Moment of Hate
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1960
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.
#21 - Anniversary of a Murder
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1960
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .
#22 - Tidal Wave
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/1960
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.
#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 - 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.
#25 - The Room Upstairs
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1961
Insanity in the family has made Esther Hollis leery of having children. Then one night, upstairs, she hears the sobs of a crying child.