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 - Tonight at 12:17
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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.
#6 - The Stranger
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1961
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Confession
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/11/1961
A lawyer having put an innocent man on death row for a woman he knows to be alive and not dead, is haunted by his actions.
#12 - The Avengers
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/25/1961
A Nazi general, in charge of the Chateau de la Marre district of France, plans a special party for some French peasants in his area - before sending them to labor camps. It's the general's wish to duplicate precisely a celebration held in the Chateau a century and a half ago
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Sorcerer
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/23/1961
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
#16 - The Villa
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/6/1961
At a party, a hypnotized girl becomes hysterical because of a vision.
#17 - Midnight
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/13/1961
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.
#18 - The Tiger
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/20/1961
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Promise
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1960
A bomb deactivator in postwar London who decides to dismantle just one last bomb.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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 . . .
#23 - 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
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.