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One Step Beyond

Season 2 1959 - 1960
NR

  • 1959-09-15T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 25m
  • 15h 53m (39 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.

39 episodes

Season Premiere

1959-09-15T04:00:00Z

2x01 Delusion

Season Premiere

2x01 Delusion

  • 1959-09-15T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1959-09-22T04:00:00Z

2x02 Ordeal on Locust Street

2x02 Ordeal on Locust Street

  • 1959-09-22T04:00:00Z24m

A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.

1959-10-06T04:00:00Z

2x03 Brainwave

2x03 Brainwave

  • 1959-10-06T04:00:00Z25m

During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .

1959-10-13T04:00:00Z

2x04 Doomsday

2x04 Doomsday

  • 1959-10-13T04:00:00Z30m

A Scottish earl executes his son's lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women places a curse on the earl's family. Hundreds of years later, the current earl of the family lives in fear of this curse – because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .

1959-10-20T04:00:00Z

2x05 Night of the Kill

2x05 Night of the Kill

  • 1959-10-20T04:00:00Z25m

Under cover of darkness.

1959-10-27T05:00:00Z

2x06 The Inheritance

2x06 The Inheritance

  • 1959-10-27T05:00:00Z25m

A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond necklace inflicts a horrible punishment on the women who try to wear it.

1959-11-03T05:00:00Z

2x07 The Open Window

2x07 The Open Window

  • 1959-11-03T05:00:00Z25m

On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempted suicide by a young woman in the adjacent building. He rushes next door to save her . . . but he finds the apartment empty! Later, when the exact same vision is repeated, he begins to doubt his sanity.

1959-11-10T05:00:00Z

2x08 Message from Clara

2x08 Message from Clara

  • 1959-11-10T05:00:00Z24m

An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.

1959-11-17T05:00:00Z

2x09 Forked Lightning

2x09 Forked Lightning

  • 1959-11-17T05:00:00Z22m

Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

1959-11-24T05:00:00Z

2x10 Reunion

2x10 Reunion

  • 1959-11-24T05:00:00Z25m

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

1959-12-01T05:00:00Z

2x11 Dead Ringer

2x11 Dead Ringer

  • 1959-12-01T05:00:00Z24m

A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .

1959-12-08T05:00:00Z

2x12 The Stone Cutter

2x12 The Stone Cutter

  • 1959-12-08T05:00:00Z25m

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

1959-12-15T05:00:00Z

2x13 Father Image

2x13 Father Image

  • 1959-12-15T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1959-12-22T05:00:00Z

2x14 Make Me Not a Witch

2x14 Make Me Not a Witch

  • 1959-12-22T05:00:00Z24m

A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.

1959-12-29T05:00:00Z

2x15 The Hand

2x15 The Hand

  • 1959-12-29T05:00:00Z24m

""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

1960-01-05T05:00:00Z

2x16 The Justice Tree

2x16 The Justice Tree

  • 1960-01-05T05:00:00Z25m

Matters of life and death.

1960-01-12T05:00:00Z

2x17 Earthquake

2x17 Earthquake

  • 1960-01-12T05:00:00Z24m

The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

1960-01-19T05:00:00Z

2x18 The Forests of the Night

2x18 The Forests of the Night

  • 1960-01-19T05:00:00Z22m

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

1960-01-26T05:00:00Z

2x19 Call from Tomorrow

2x19 Call from Tomorrow

  • 1960-01-26T05:00:00Z25m

Don't call us, we'll call you.

1960-02-02T05:00:00Z

2x20 Who Are You?

2x20 Who Are You?

  • 1960-02-02T05:00:00Z22m

""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)

""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)

1960-02-16T05:00:00Z

2x22 The Lovers

2x22 The Lovers

  • 1960-02-16T05:00:00Z25m

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

1960-02-23T05:00:00Z

2x23 Vanishing Point

2x23 Vanishing Point

  • 1960-02-23T05:00:00Z25m

Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he's accused of murdering her.

1960-03-01T05:00:00Z

2x24 The Mask

2x24 The Mask

  • 1960-03-01T05:00:00Z25m

""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice.""

Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

1960-03-08T05:00:00Z

2x25 The Haunting

2x25 The Haunting

  • 1960-03-08T05:00:00Z24m

The bridegroom kills the best man.

1960-03-15T05:00:00Z

2x26 The Explorer

2x26 The Explorer

  • 1960-03-15T05:00:00Z25m

An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the region's ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?

1960-03-22T05:00:00Z

2x27 The Clown

2x27 The Clown

  • 1960-03-22T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1960-04-05T05:00:00Z

2x28 I Saw You Tomorrow

2x28 I Saw You Tomorrow

  • 1960-04-05T05:00:00Z25m

""There is no new thing under the sun.""

Proverbs

1960-04-12T05:00:00Z

2x29 Encounter

2x29 Encounter

  • 1960-04-12T05:00:00Z24m

Without a plane, a pilot appears.

2x30 The Peter Hurkos Story (1)

  • 1960-04-19T05:00:00Z25m

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.

2x31 The Peter Hurkos Story (2)

  • 1960-04-26T04:00:00Z25m

Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with assisting in the capture of real-life serial killers. Hurkos himself finally appears on screen.

1960-05-03T04:00:00Z

2x32 Delia

2x32 Delia

  • 1960-05-03T04:00:00Z25m

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times they've met before. The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.

1960-05-10T04:00:00Z

2x33 The Visitor

2x33 The Visitor

  • 1960-05-10T04:00:00Z22m

A man returns to his past.

1960-05-17T04:00:00Z

2x34 Gypsy

2x34 Gypsy

  • 1960-05-17T04:00:00Z25m

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

1960-05-24T04:00:00Z

2x35 Contact

2x35 Contact

  • 1960-05-24T04:00:00Z22m

A hands-on approach.

1960-05-31T04:00:00Z

2x36 The Lonely Room

2x36 The Lonely Room

  • 1960-05-31T04:00:00Z25m

Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.

1960-06-07T04:00:00Z

2x37 House of the Dead

2x37 House of the Dead

  • 1960-06-07T04:00:00Z25m

A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic message on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the ""House of the Dead"" . . .

1960-06-14T04:00:00Z

2x38 Goodbye Grandpa

2x38 Goodbye Grandpa

  • 1960-06-14T04:00:00Z24m

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

Season Finale

1960-06-21T04:00:00Z

2x39 The Storm

Season Finale

2x39 The Storm

  • 1960-06-21T04:00:00Z22m

no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm

Beckett

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