The Next Step Beyond
An updated version of the popular series from the late 50's and early 60's, One Step Beyond. Still hosted by John Newland, this series looked for supposedly real stories of hauntings, strange creatures and supernatural phenomena, and produced dramatic re-creations of them for each new episode. Unlike its predecessor, this series did not attract much of an audience, and ended after only one season.
- 1978-1979
- 1 season
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
An updated version of the popular series from the late 50's and early 60's, One Step Beyond. Still hosted by John Newland, this series looked for supposedly real stories of hauntings, strange creatures and supernatural phenomena, and produced dramatic re-creations of them for each new episode. Unlike its predecessor, this series did not attract much of an audience, and ended after only one season.
Season 1 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
Tsunami
Thu, Jan 5, 1978 30 mins
On the West Coast, an autistic 12-year-old boy is the only person aware of an approaching tidal wave, but how can he communicate this critical information to all those in danger?
Episode 2
The Return of Cary De Witt
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
Following an appendectomy with complications, Cary DeWitt awakens after a ten-day coma. When he visits Tahiti soon after his recovery, however, everybody insists he has been there recently - despite the fact his body was unconscious and 6,000 miles away in a hospital. Worse, DeWitt's "waking spirit" racked up a sizable hotel debt, and had an affair with a beautiful, and important, young native named Tiare.
Episode 3
Possessed
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A couple desperate to save their marriage embark on a doomed road trip. As they drive over a dam, wife Caroline is suddenly possessed by the spirit of a dead Hispanic woman. Her husband and the authorities are confounded by the event, but the possession has a purpose: dead Maria Robles wants to prove that her husband, incarcerated in the local jail, did not murder her.
Episode 4
The Love Connection
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
There is a strange, psychic bond between young gymnast Jill August and the catatonic, mourning Harriet Jessup - despite the fact the two have never met. When Jill awakens from an unexpected coma, she is possessed by the spirit of Harriet's dead daughter, Karen. Karen's purpose in returning from the beyond is to tell her grieving mother that love never dies.
Episode 5
Ondine's Curse
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A man suffering from Ondine's Curse, a rare condition which mimics death, is left for dead after an encounter with a violent hitchhiker. His wife, the only person aware of his strange condition, utilizes her psychic abilities to locate her husband before he is laid to rest.
Episode 6
Dream of Disaster
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A pregnant woman has fierce, violent nightmares of a plane crash in which a Cessna 172 goes down and crashes into her room. Her husband, an air-traffic controller, comes to believe her premonition as real-life events unfold just as she foresaw. He moves her to a motel for safety - but that shift of location could be the very catalyst which triggers the disaster.
Episode 7
Ghost Town
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A fashion model inexplicably experiences a vision of murder, unaware that what she is witnessing is a crime more than a quarter-century old.
Episode 8
Drums at Midnight
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
An angry would-be heir resorts to voodoo and witchery to get her share of the wealth when she learns that her young stepmother is the main beneficiary of her dead father's enormous estate. The would-be heir finds, however, that the black arts are not to be trifled with.
Episode 9
Portrait of the Mind
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
When apprehended for the robbery of a liquor store, an innocent ex-con must depend on the psychic abilities of a police artist who can draw the psychic impressions left behind in the subconscious of the robbery eyewitnesses.
Episode 10
Other Voices
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
Upon his return home from a party, a man has a powerful premonition of a drunken party-goer murdering his wife. Hoping to prevent the act of murder, Walter acts on his unusual precognition.
Episode 11
A Matter of Pride
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A powerful hypnotic suggestion implanted before his last fight plagues down-on-his-luck boxer, Manny Guzman, and may be the only thing that can save a young diabetic from certain death.
Episode 12
Ghost of Cellblock Two
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A fifty-year-old murder and a vengeful spirit play roles in this unusual mystery about a young woman, mistakenly arrested, who finds herself in a haunted prison cell.
Episode 13
The Legacy
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
The ghost of a dead railroad worker utilizes his grandson's highly-detailed toy railroad cars and diorama to pinpoint to authorities the exact locations where a ruthless criminal plans to derail trains.
Episode 14
Cry Baby
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
While her husband is away for a weekend at a "back to nature" seminar, Susan Elston is cornered in their isolated mountain home by an intruder bent on rape. At the seminar, Susan's husband hears the persistent cries of a baby-the cries of the as-yet unborn child in Susan's stomach-calling him home to help his wife.
Episode 15
Greed
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
The Barlows, a financially troubled couple, face a future of bankruptcy, creditors, and debt. Forced to stay in a run-down hotel, the Barlows are shocked when a story that could solve all their problems materializes on Phil's typewriter. The story concerns two brothers, the Whittakers, who succumb to greed and corruption in their mountain search for gold.
Episode 16
Out of Body
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A woman is murdered and her boyfriend is arrested. He claims he was somewhere else meditating. At his trial , the man who found her who's the husband of the dead woman's friend testified she was breaking up with him, which gives him a motive. In Reality the man was having an affair with the dead woman. And killed her when she told him she was going to leave him. When the man is asleep he thinks he sees the boyfriend in his house but he'sin jail. And he keeps popping up.
Episode 17
Key to Yesterday
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
Following his father's death, a young man named Daniel reopens a theater closed nearly 30 years earlier. The establishment once belonged to Daniel's father, and it could be the key to solving a murder committed long ago. As Daniel grows more intrigued by a psychic vision, he learns that adultery is the least of his father's sins.
Episode 18
Woman in the Mirror
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A man who has gotten away with the murder of his wife sees justice finally reach him each time he looks in a mirror. He is finally undone by his guilty conscience.
Episode 19
The Haunted Inn
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
A lost traveler receives directions to a nearby inn from a beautiful woman in a flowing white gown.
Episode 20
The Pact
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
Three children are tormented by a fortune teller who says they will have a tragic future. Teddy is given a crow's foot and told that his life will be filled with much pain and unhappiness unless he carries it with him for the rest of his life; he immediately loses it. Valerie is told that she will be alone and never marry; both prophecies come true. Lastly, Peter is told that he will become a physician with success at an early age, but that it will be short-lived when his life comes to a tragic end on his 31st birthday. The three friends form a blood pact that they will watch out for each other to ensure that nothing happens to the others. Years later, the trio reunite as adults when Teddy forces Peter at gunpoint to return to their hometown to spend his birthday with himself and Valerie, seeking to ensure that his prophecy does not come true and seal their fates. In the end, all three will come to question whether their fate have been predetermined by the gypsy, or if they can ban together to alter the outcomes.
Episode 21
Sin of Omission
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
In the upstairs bedroom of their newly purchased house, Diane Hollis hears the cries of a child in pain. Diane believes she is going crazy, but soon she and her husband both witness apparitions in their living room.
Episode 22
Thunderbolt
Fri, Sep 8, 1978 30 mins
A freak storm spurs a shared premonition of death for two very different individuals.
Episode 23
The Confession
Tue, Feb 7, 1978
A man is convicted of murdering his wife, but he knows he is innocent - despite a persistent mental fugue which seems to confirm his guilt. As events snowball, the man realizes he may be witnessing the mental confession of the killer.
Episode 24
Trance of Death
Fri, Sep 8, 1978
After a freak accident during a karate class, Sharon Weaver begins to develop powerful psychic abilities - abilities which come in handy when the daughter of a friend finds herself in deadly danger.
Episode 25
To Fight a Ghost
Sun, Apr 1, 1979
A lonely woman is desperate for closure after three years of worrying about her husband, an archaeologist missing and presumed dead in Venezuela. When she is attacked in the park by an ex-student, Cathy LeMasters gets her answer at long last, and the spirit of her husband comes to her defense.