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.

Last Updated: 9/13/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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The Executioner
star
9.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: John Newland
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The Voice
star
9.00
1 votes

#2 - 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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The Promise
star
8.50
2 votes

#3 - 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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The Return
star
8.03
32 votes

#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.

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Eyewitness
star
8.00
1 votes

#5 - 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.

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Nightmare
star
8.00
1 votes

#6 - 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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The Tiger
star
8.00
1 votes

#7 - The Tiger

Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/20/1961

A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

Directors: John Newland
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The Sorcerer
star
8.00
1 votes

#8 - The Sorcerer

Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/23/1961

An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

Directors: John Newland
Writer: Derry Quinn
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Blood Flower
star
8.00
1 votes

#9 - 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.

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The Prisoner
star
8.00
1 votes

#10 - 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.

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Signal Received
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: John Newland
Writer: Derry Quinn
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Justice
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8.00
1 votes

#12 - 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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Night of Decision
star
8.00
1 votes

#13 - 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.

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The Gift
star
8.00
1 votes

#14 - The Gift

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961

A phony fortuneteller has a real vision: she sees her son committing a murder.

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The Sacred Mushroom
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: John Newland
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Where Are They?
star
8.00
1 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: John Newland
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Tonight at 12:17
star
8.00
31 votes

#17 - Tonight at 12:17

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

Writer: Larry Marcus
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If You See Sally
star
8.00
2 votes

#18 - 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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The Face
star
8.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: John Newland
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The Trap
star
7.67
3 votes

#20 - 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.

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The Death Waltz
star
7.60
5 votes

#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

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Moment of Hate
star
7.50
2 votes

#22 - 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.

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Person Unknown
star
7.50
2 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: John Newland
Writer: Larry Marcus
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Legacy of Love
star
7.50
2 votes

#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!

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Anniversary of a Murder
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7.50
4 votes

#25 - 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 . . .

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