The WORST episodes of One Step Beyond
Every episode of One Step Beyond ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 Last Round
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1961
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.
#2 - 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.
#3 - To Know the End
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1960
A young woman living in England during World War II, begins to have strange hallucinations of death and destruction. What she doesn't realize is that her visions may threaten not only the man who is closest to her, but the entire country as well.
#4 - The Burning Girl
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/5/1959
Cult actress Luana Anders plays a teenager trying to fit into a new community, make new friends and coexist with her abusive aunt and insensitive father, who insists she's a pyromaniac despite her pleas of innocence. Things are certain to get hot sooner than later.
#5 - The Clown
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/22/1960
A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.
#6 - The Day the World Wept: The Lincoln Story
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1960
In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln has a dream in which he foresees his own death. His wife Mary has a similarly fatalistic vision but other, ordinary Americans who have never met Lincoln, also experience psychic phenomena. The next evening the president goes to Ford's Theatre where his killer is waiting.
#7 - The Haunted U-Boat
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/12/1959
While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.
#8 - The Captain's Guests
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/1959
A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a New England home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.
#9 - The Image of Death
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/1959
An inspector is suspicious about the death of the wife of a Marquis, who, in fact, did kill her with his lover Charlotte as his accomplice. The Marquis becomes increasingly haunted by a stain on the wall which seems to be the image of his dead wife's face. He is ultimately tried and executed, but for the murder of Charlotte who has been literally scared to death by the stain.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Front Runner
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/9/1959
Two rival jockeys compete for the top spot at a racetrack, but one of them has an unexpected brush with the supernatural that may give him the edge.
#12 - The Devil's Laughter
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/1959
John Marriott boasted to his jailers, the executioner and anyone else who would listen that before the first attempted execution he was frightened out of his wits. But when the hood was put over his head, he saw how he would die, and it would not be on the gallows.
#13 - The Dream
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/1959
In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.
#14 - Delusion
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1959
A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.
#15 - The Aerialist
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1959
An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.
#16 - Twelve Hours to Live
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1959
After her husband storms out of the house following an argument, his wife begins having visions of him in terrible danger. She seeks help from his disbelieving business partner and the police before resolving to rescue him herself.
#17 - Gypsy
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/17/1960
A convict who has just escaped from prison meets up with a mysterious gypsy, who convinces him that it is best for him to return to the prison from which he has just escaped. The convict soon begins to realize that the there was quite a bit more to the gypsy than there at first appeared to be.
#18 - The Navigator
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/1959
The crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship find that somebody has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mute, soaking wet Oriental whom they clap in irons. The alteration in course leads them to rescue survivors of a ship sunk by an ice berg, though that ship's navigator is dead and is the spitting image of the Oriental, who has mysteriously disappeared.
#19 - The Secret
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/1959
A young woman is left alone and unloved by her domineering and arrogant husband. She soon invents an imaginary lover who loves and comforts her--then she begins to suspect that her invisible "lover" may not be all that imaginary.
#20 - Echo
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/2/1959
Paul Martin is acquitted by a jury of the murder of his wife, although most people believe he did in fact kill her. To escape questioning reporters, he takes a house in the country. Soon, however, he begins to have premonitions of his own murder, and is shocked one day when his dead wife's brother shows up at his front door
#21 - The Riddle
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/16/1959
On a trip through India, a married couple encounters a beggar who seems to be different from all the others they've seen--the husband is convinced that this particular beggar is trying to kill them.
#22 - Reunion
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1959
Germany 1939, a group of young glider enthusiasts are startled to learn of the Third Reich's invasion of Poland. Knowing their lives must now go in separate directions, they plan a reunion picnic for the first Sunday following the war's conclusion. Who will still be alive and/or able to attend?
#23 - Father Image
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1959
Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand why he never sold the place, until an accident causes Dan to go back in time and discover the reason.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.