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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.
Episode 39 : The Storm
June. 21,1960
Episode 38 : Goodbye Grandpa
June. 14,1960
Episode 37 : House of the Dead
June. 07,1960
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"" . . .
Episode 36 : The Lonely Room
May. 31,1960
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.
Episode 35 : Contact
May. 24,1960
Episode 34 : Gypsy
May. 17,1960
Episode 33 : The Visitor
May. 10,1960
Episode 32 : Delia
May. 03,1960
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.
Episode 31 : The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
April. 26,1960
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.
Episode 30 : The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
April. 19,1960
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.
Episode 29 : Encounter
April. 12,1960
Episode 28 : I Saw You Tomorrow
April. 05,1960
Episode 27 : The Clown
March. 22,1960
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.
Episode 26 : The Explorer
March. 15,1960
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?
Episode 25 : The Haunting
March. 08,1960
Episode 24 : The Mask
March. 01,1960
""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice.""
Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""
Episode 23 : Vanishing Point
February. 23,1960
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.
Episode 22 : The Lovers
February. 16,1960
Episode 21 : The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
February. 09,1960
Episode 20 : Who Are You?
February. 02,1960
Episode 19 : Call from Tomorrow
January. 26,1960
Episode 18 : The Forests of the Night
January. 19,1960
Episode 17 : Earthquake
January. 12,1960
Episode 16 : The Justice Tree
January. 05,1960
Episode 15 : The Hand
December. 29,1959
Episode 14 : Make Me Not a Witch
December. 22,1959
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.
Episode 13 : Father Image
December. 15,1959
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.
Episode 12 : The Stone Cutter
December. 08,1959
Episode 11 : Dead Ringer
December. 01,1959
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 . . .
Episode 10 : Reunion
November. 24,1959
Episode 9 : Forked Lightning
November. 17,1959
Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.
Episode 8 : Message from Clara
November. 10,1959
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.
Episode 7 : The Open Window
November. 03,1959
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.
Episode 6 : The Inheritance
October. 27,1959
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.
Episode 5 : Night of the Kill
October. 20,1959
Episode 4 : Doomsday
October. 13,1959
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 . . .
Episode 3 : Brainwave
October. 06,1959
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 . . .
Episode 2 : Ordeal on Locust Street
September. 22,1959
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.
Episode 1 : Delusion
September. 15,1959
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.
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