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 - 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.
#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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#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.
#8 - 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
#9 - 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 . . .
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Goodbye Grandpa
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/14/1960
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
#13 - Contact
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/24/1960
Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his mind plotting a heinous murder. Could this unsettling phenomenon possibly be linked to the antique pocket watch he received as a gift from his wife?
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/19/1960
Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Haunting
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1960
Suspecting his friend Peter of having an affair with his bride-to-be, Colin Chandler allows him to die following a climbing accident. However ghostly happenings interrupt the wedding ceremony resulting in punishment for Colin and his eventual breakdown.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1960
Evil spirits are determined to break up the romance between Otto, a patron at a Viennese tavern, and Elsa, a beautiful waitress there. But the connection between the two lovers seems to be stronger than the spirits counted on.
#22 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#25 - 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.