One Step Beyond — Season 2

Aired 15 September 1959

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.

Aired 22 September 1959

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.

Aired 6 October 1959

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 . . .

Aired 13 October 1959 • 30 min

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 . . .

Aired 20 October 1959

Under cover of darkness.

Aired 27 October 1959

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.

Aired 3 November 1959

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.

Aired 10 November 1959

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.

Aired 17 November 1959

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

Aired 24 November 1959

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

Aired 1 December 1959

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 . . .

Aired 8 December 1959

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

Aired 15 December 1959

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.

Aired 22 December 1959

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.

Aired 29 December 1959

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

Aired 5 January 1960

Matters of life and death.

Aired 12 January 1960

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

Aired 19 January 1960

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

Aired 26 January 1960

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

Aired 2 February 1960

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

Aired 9 February 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.

Aired 16 February 1960

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

Aired 23 February 1960

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.

Aired 1 March 1960

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

Aired 8 March 1960

The bridegroom kills the best man.

Aired 15 March 1960

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?

Aired 22 March 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.

Aired 5 April 1960

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

Aired 12 April 1960

Without a plane, a pilot appears.

Aired 19 April 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.

Aired 26 April 1960

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.

Aired 3 May 1960

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.

Aired 10 May 1960

A man returns to his past.

Aired 17 May 1960

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

Aired 24 May 1960

A hands-on approach.

Aired 31 May 1960

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.

Aired 7 June 1960

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"" . . .

Aired 14 June 1960

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

Aired 21 June 1960

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