
About this season
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.
Episodes (36)

1. Tidal Wave
5.0Aired 30 August 1960
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women ĂąâŹâ accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.

2. Anniversary of a Murder
6.0Aired 27 September 1960
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .

3. The Death Waltz
5.0Aired 4 October 1960
The Merry Widow?

4. The Return
6.0Aired 11 October 1960
These were the swift to harry...

5. If You See Sally
7.0Aired 18 October 1960
Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

6. Moment of Hate
6.0Aired 25 October 1960
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.

7. To Know the End
7.0Aired 1 November 1960
...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.

8. The Trap
6.0Aired 15 November 1960
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.

9. The Voice
7.0Aired 22 November 1960
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

10. The Promise
6.5Aired 29 November 1960
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost

11. Tonight at 12:17
7.0Aired 6 December 1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

12. Where Are They?
6.0Aired 13 December 1960
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.

13. Legacy of Love
6.0Aired 20 December 1960
A romance of past and present.

14. Rendezvous
6.0Aired 27 December 1960
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.

15. The Executioner
6.0Aired 3 January 1961
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

16. The Last Round
6.0Aired 10 January 1961
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.

17. Dead Man's Tale
6.0Aired 17 January 1961
A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

18. The Sacred Mushroom
7.0Aired 24 January 1961
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.

19. The Gift
6.0Aired 31 January 1961
Neither shadow of turning.

20. Person Unknown
7.0Aired 7 February 1961
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.

21. Night of Decision
5.0Aired 21 February 1961
General Washington doubts, but is saved.

22. The Stranger
6.0Aired 28 February 1961
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.

23. Justice
6.0Aired 7 March 1961
Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

24. The Face
6.0Aired 14 March 1961
Persistence of evil vision.

25. The Room Upstairs
6.0Aired 21 March 1961
A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

26. Signal Received
Aired 4 April 1961
On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

27. The Confession
Aired 11 April 1961
The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

28. The Avengers
3.0Aired 25 April 1961
How the past determines the future.

29. The Prisoner
3.0Aired 2 May 1961
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

30. Blood Flower
4.0Aired 16 May 1961
Flores, flores para los muertos.

31. The Sorcerer
4.0Aired 23 May 1961
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

32. The Villa
5.0Aired 6 June 1961
A room with a view.

33. Midnight
Aired 13 June 1961
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

34. The Tiger
7.0Aired 20 June 1961
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

35. Nightmare
6.0Aired 27 June 1961
Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.

36. Eye Witness
6.0Aired 4 July 1961
A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.