• Air date: 20 Jan '59 22 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. The Bride Possessed

      20 Jan '59
      The nuptial visage.
    • 2. Night of April 14th

      27 Jan '59
      A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
    • 3. Emergency Only

      03 Feb '59
      A set of circumstances outside the norm.
    • 4. The Dark Room

      10 Feb '59
      A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.
    • 5. Twelve Hours to Live

      17 Feb '59
      Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
    • 6. Epilogue

      24 Feb '59
      A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.
    • 7. The Dream

      03 Mar '59
      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.
    • 8. Premonition

      10 Mar '59
      Forewarned is forearmed.
    • 9. The Dead Part of the House

      17 Mar '59
      A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.
    • 10. The Vision

      24 Mar '59
      In the trenches in WWI, soldiers as usual are dying like flies as expected. All of a sudden the French troops drop their arms and walk very serenely away from the front. Hearing of this the generals bring them up on charges of dissertion, a capital crime. Tremaine is the advocate for their case. They don't seem to want to defend themselves for their inexplicable behavior, not in a way that makes sense. While waiting for the fateful morn, he seeks out a bottle of something special that they reque
    • 11. The Devil's Laughter

      31 Mar '59
      The condemned man's not for hanging.
    • 12. The Return of Mitchell Campion

      07 Apr '59
      A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the hospital at the time of the supposed visit...
    • 13. The Navigator

      14 Apr '59
      Dead reckoning.
    • 14. The Secret

      21 Apr '59
      Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
    • 15. The Aerialist

      28 Apr '59
      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. The Burning Girl

      05 May '59
      Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.
    • 17. The Haunted U-Boat

      12 May '59
      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.
    • 18. The Image of Death

      19 May '59
      ""Let her paint an inch thick...""
    • 19. The Captain's Guests

      26 May '59
      The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
    • 20. Echo

      02 Jun '59
      A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.
    • 21. Front Runner

      09 Jun '59
      A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.
    • 22. The Riddle

      16 Jun '59
      An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.