• Air date: 15 Sep '59 39 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 (39)
    • 1. Delusion

      15 Sep '59
      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.
    • 2. Ordeal on Locust Street

      22 Sep '59
      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.
    • 3. Brainwave

      06 Oct '59
      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 . . .
    • 4. Doomsday

      13 Oct '59
      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 . . .
    • 5. Night of the Kill

      20 Oct '59
      Under cover of darkness.
    • 6. The Inheritance

      27 Oct '59
      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.
    • 7. The Open Window

      03 Nov '59
      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.
    • 8. Message from Clara

      10 Nov '59
      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.
    • 9. Forked Lightning

      17 Nov '59
      Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
    • 10. Reunion

      24 Nov '59
      World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
    • 11. Dead Ringer

      01 Dec '59
      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 . . .
    • 12. The Stone Cutter

      08 Dec '59
      A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
    • 13. Father Image

      15 Dec '59
      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.
    • 14. Make Me Not a Witch

      22 Dec '59
      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.
    • 15. The Hand

      29 Dec '59
      ""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
    • 16. The Justice Tree

      05 Jan '60
      Matters of life and death.
    • 17. Earthquake

      12 Jan '60
      The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
    • 18. The Forests of the Night

      19 Jan '60
      A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
    • 19. Call from Tomorrow

      26 Jan '60
      Don't call us, we'll call you.
    • 20. Who Are You?

      02 Feb '60
      ""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
    • 21. The Day the World Wept????????The Lincoln Story

      09 Feb '60
      ""This dust was once the man."" (Whitman)
    • 22. The Lovers

      16 Feb '60
      Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
    • 23. Vanishing Point

      23 Feb '60
      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.
    • 24. The Mask

      01 Mar '60
      ""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
    • 25. The Haunting

      08 Mar '60
      The bridegroom kills the best man.