One Step Beyond
This black-and-white anthology series presents standalone tales of paranormal events and unexplained experiences, often framed as dramatizations of real cases. Each short episode aims for eerie mystery over big spectacle, inviting viewers to decide for themselves what to believe.
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Season 2
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E1
Delusion
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.
Sep 15, 1959 · 30m -
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Ordeal on Locust Street
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.
Sep 22, 1959 · 30m -
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Brainwave
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 . . .
Oct 6, 1959 · 30m -
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Doomsday
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 . . .
Oct 13, 1959 · 30m -
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Night of the Kill
Under cover of darkness.
Oct 20, 1959 · 30m -
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The Inheritance
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.
Oct 27, 1959 · 30m -
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The Open Window
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.
Nov 3, 1959 · 30m -
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Message from Clara
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.
Nov 10, 1959 · 30m -
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Forked Lightning
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
Nov 17, 1959 · 30m -
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Reunion
World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.
Nov 24, 1959 · 30m -
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Dead Ringer
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 . . .
Dec 1, 1959 · 30m -
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The Stone Cutter
A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.
Dec 8, 1959 · 30m -
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E13
Father Image
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.
Dec 15, 1959 · 30m -
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Make Me Not a Witch
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.
Dec 22, 1959 · 30m -
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The Hand
""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)
Dec 29, 1959 · 30m -
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The Justice Tree
Matters of life and death.
Jan 5, 1960 · 30m -
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Earthquake
The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
Jan 12, 1960 · 30m -
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E18
The Forests of the Night
A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.
Jan 19, 1960 · 30m -
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Call from Tomorrow
Don't call us, we'll call you.
Jan 26, 1960 · 30m -
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Who Are You?
""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)
Feb 2, 1960 · 30m -
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E21
The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
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.
Feb 9, 1960 · 30m -
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The Lovers
Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.
Feb 16, 1960 · 30m -
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Vanishing Point
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.
Feb 23, 1960 · 30m -
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The Mask
""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
Mar 1, 1960 · 30m -
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The Haunting
The bridegroom kills the best man.
Mar 8, 1960 · 30m -
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The Explorer
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?
Mar 15, 1960 · 30m -
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The Clown
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.
Mar 22, 1960 · 30m -
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I Saw You Tomorrow
""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs
Apr 5, 1960 · 30m -
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E29
Encounter
Without a plane, a pilot appears.
Apr 12, 1960 · 30m -
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The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
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.
Apr 19, 1960 · 30m -
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The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
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.
Apr 26, 1960 · 30m -
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Delia
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.
May 3, 1960 · 30m -
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E33
The Visitor
A man returns to his past.
May 10, 1960 · 30m -
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Gypsy
A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.
May 17, 1960 · 30m -
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E35
Contact
A hands-on approach.
May 24, 1960 · 30m -
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E36
The Lonely Room
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.
May 31, 1960 · 30m -
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House of the Dead
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"" . . .
Jun 7, 1960 · 30m -
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Goodbye Grandpa
An old railroad man keeps his promise.
Jun 14, 1960 · 30m -
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The Storm
no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett
Jun 21, 1960 · 30m