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One Step Beyond Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Delusion
Tue, Sep 15, 195930 mins
Harold Stern has an extremely rare blood type--so rare, in fact, that the act of giving blood causes him to become aware of events in the recipient's life that have not happened yet. One day he is called upon to give blood to save the life of a dying young girl, and he doesn't like what he sees in store for her.
Episode 2
Ordeal on Locust Street
Tue, Sep 22, 195930 mins
A seemingly normal family is hiding a terrible secret: their son has the features of a deformed, fish-like monster. A somewhat mysterious hypnotist with strange powers claims that he can help them, and in their desperation they enlist his aid.
Episode 3
Brainwave
Tue, Oct 6, 195930 mins
Aboard a United States ship in Japanese waters during World War II, Captain Fielding is critically injured. A hospital corpsman must perform surgery with only the radio voice of a doctor on another ship to guide him.
Episode 4
Doomsday
Tue, Oct 13, 195930 mins
A poor, pretty, village woman living in Scotland in the 17th Century is sentenced to be burned at the stake, for the natural death of her lover, the son of an Earl. She shouts out a curse that the oldest son of every generation to come of the Earl will die before the father.
Episode 5
Night of the Kill
Tue, Oct 20, 195930 mins
After being missing from home young Davey Morris tells his parents he was with a friendly Bigfoot type creature. Nobody believes him until they see giant footprints and evidence that the animal has been eating their food. Even though it is invisible they decide to kill it by setting fire to its woodland home.
Episode 6
The Inheritance
Tue, Oct 27, 195930 mins
In a seedy bar washed up drunk Michael Barry tells the presenter how an elderly countess to whom he was a gigolo died wearing a beautiful necklace, as did her dowdy companion who inherited the jewelry. Barry was not superstitious until he gave the necklace to another woman, who went the same way, leaving him unhinged.
Episode 7
The Open Window
Tue, Nov 3, 195930 mins
On a hot summer night artist Anthony March sees a distraught woman in the apartment opposite gas herself after taking a distressing phone call but when he goes over to the room there is nobody there. However when he sees the same woman some days later, this time with a witness, it transpires that what he saw was a vision of the future and tragedy is averted.
Episode 8
Message from Clara
Tue, Nov 10, 195930 mins
A brooch causes a beautiful teacher to write a message.
Episode 9
Forked Lightning
Tue, Nov 17, 195930 mins
Two men who don't know each other find that their lives are intertwined by a strange psychic connection that may end up in the deaths of both.
Episode 10
Reunion
Tue, Nov 24, 195930 mins
The setting is Germany in 1939 and a group of young glider enthusiasts are startled to learn of the Third Reich's invasion of Poland. Knowing their lives must now go in separate directions, they plan a reunion picnic for the first Sunday following the war's conclusion. Who will still be alive and/or able to attend?
Episode 11
Dead Ringer
Tue, Dec 1, 195930 mins
A woman called Esther has unsettling visions of buildings set alight by an arsonist and claims that her sister, whom she has not seen for many years, is responsible. She states that she is able to will her sister to come to town and a woman resembling Esther is seen at the station but disappears. Afterwards it is disclosed that the sister died many years ago in a fire.
Episode 12
The Stone Cutter
Tue, Dec 8, 195930 mins
Elderly Simon Lockhart is convinced that he will die in just a few days, because a mysterious stone cutter has already chiseled that date onto his tombstone.
Episode 13
Father Image
Tue, Dec 15, 195930 mins
Following the death of his father young lawyer Dan Gardner discovers that he bought an old vaudeville theatre which has been shut down for many years. Unable to work out his father's interest in the building he travels back in time to discover a romantic secret from the old man's past.
Episode 14
Make Me Not a Witch
Tue, Dec 22, 195930 mins
Emmy Horvath, a farm girl, innocently reveals to her mother and father that she can read their minds and the minds of others. She takes her ability for granted, but her psychic power terrifies her parents, who worry that she'll be condemned as a witch and taken away from them. Emmy flees to an unfamiliar church, where she prays, "Make me not a witch." A priest sees her and persuades her to tell him her secret. She does, but makes him promise to tell no one. Later, a fisherman turns up on a beach. The fisherman knows that two children are trapped alone on an island, but which one? The old man's paralytic stroke prevents him from being able to tell anyone. The priest, who has been called to the fisherman's side, knows that the one person who can enter the old man's mind is the girl with the paranormal gift.
Episode 15
The Hand
Tue, Dec 29, 195930 mins
In a jealous rage, a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands.
Episode 16
The Justice Tree
Tue, Jan 5, 196030 mins
Convicted killer Calvin Gannis is being escorted to this place of execution but escapes after a road accident, finding himself in a ghost town, seemingly inhabited by only the widowed Sally and her young son Joey. However, an oak tree which has been dead for decades suddenly starts to grow again, spelling out justice for Gannis.
Episode 17
Earthquake
Tue, Jan 12, 196030 mins
In 1906 San Francisco, many famous people gather at a hotel to hear renowned opera singer Enrico Caruso perform. However, a bellboy at the hotel suddenly has visions of impending mass destruction and death, but he can't get anyone to listen to him.
Episode 18
The Forests of the Night
Tue, Jan 19, 196030 mins
Three friends on a hunting trip idling away a rainy day stumble upon a mysterious Chinese game that promises to make a man what he is not, such as a mouse a tiger. After playing the game, a mild-mannered member of the trio begins acting strangely.
Episode 19
Call from Tomorrow
Tue, Jan 26, 196030 mins
A famous actress has a complete breakdown after the death of her young daughter. After she recovers she returns home, only to be convinced that she can hear her daughter calling to her from beyond the grave.
Episode 20
Who Are You?
Tue, Feb 2, 196030 mins
In the 1900s, Laurie Warren, recovering from scarlet fever it was feared would kill her, travels to the home of a Mr and Mrs Mason, whose daughter has recently died, and imagines that she is that daughter, rejecting her parents when they come after her. Things, however, change after Mrs Mason discovers that she is pregnant and Laurie recovers her old self.
Episode 21
The Day the World Wept-The Lincoln Story
Tue, Feb 9, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 22
The Lovers
Tue, Feb 16, 196030 mins
Evil spirits are determined to break up the romance between Otto, a patron at a Viennese tavern, and Elsa, a beautiful waitress there. But the connection between the two lovers seems to be stronger than the spirits counted on.
Episode 23
Vanishing Point
Tue, Feb 23, 196030 mins
Quarrelsome couple Fred and Ruth Graham rent an old house but, following an argument, Ruth disappears. Fred is tried for her murder but released for lack of evidence. However, he discovers that several previous occupants of the house have also mysteriously vanished without trace.
Episode 24
The Mask
Tue, Mar 1, 196030 mins
During World War II, Lt. Wilenski bails out of a crippled plane over the Sahara Desert, but the harsh and unrelenting conditions in the desert almost result in his death. After his rescue, however, he and his rescuers are stunned to discover that he not only has somehow acquired the memory of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, but also has the monarch's facial features!
Episode 25
The Haunting
Tue, Mar 8, 196030 mins
Suspecting his friend Peter of having an affair with his bride-to-be, Colin Chandler allows him to die following a climbing accident. However ghostly happenings interrupt the wedding ceremony resulting in punishment for Colin and his eventual breakdown.
Episode 26
The Explorer
Tue, Mar 15, 196030 mins
In Germany in 1911 Felix Borgner is visited by Dr Hansen, one of three explorers who got lost in the desert the previous year and were saved and guided back to safety by Borgner's son Eric. Of course Borgner is not amused as Eric was no longer alive by that time.
Episode 27
The Clown
Tue, Mar 22, 196030 mins
A bad-tempered husband demands that his sweet, pretty wife stop flirting with men. They're sitting in a bar when Pippo the Clown walks in, distributing balloons that advertise a traveling circus. The young blonde lets the childlike mute pet her silky hair, but the volatile husband is jealous even of a clown. Enraged, he cuts off a piece of her hair and hands it to Pippo. She runs off in tears and winds up in Pippo's trailer. The husband finds her there and uses his scissors again - this time to deadlier effect.
Episode 28
I Saw You Tomorrow
Tue, Apr 5, 196030 mins
A U.S. Foreign Service Agent becomes involved in a deadly accident in time.
Episode 29
Encounter
Tue, Apr 12, 196030 mins
A small construction crew is set on edge when a pilot and his plane suddenly disappear, his last radio message frantically reporting a mountain descending from the clouds and coming right at him. While searching for their colleague, UFO skeptics and believers among the crew debate reported sightings and evidence.
Episode 30
The Peter Hurkos Story: Part 1
Tue, Apr 19, 196030 mins
Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Holland 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 31
The Peter Hurkos Story: Part 2
Tue, Apr 26, 196030 mins
In the continuation of the story in post-war America Hurkos works with a parapsychologist Dr Lars Lindstrom and with the urban police using his psychic powers to help trap serial killers. Finally Hurkos himself is introduced by John Newland.
Episode 32
Delia
Tue, May 3, 196030 mins
A man disillusioned with life meets the woman of his dreams on a tropical island. When she suddenly disappears his life begins to spiral out of control, and in his desperation he begins to believe he is having encounters with the supernatural.
Episode 33
The Visitor
Tue, May 10, 196030 mins
Alcoholic Ellen Grayson summons her husband Harry to her isolated house to announce their marriage is over, after which he crashes his car. Helen is then visited by a man, the exact double of a much younger Harry, whose account of the love his has for his wife moves her to reconciliation and inadvertently saving her husband's life.
Episode 34
Gypsy
Tue, May 17, 196030 mins
A convict who has just escaped from prison meets up with a mysterious gypsy, who convinces him that it is best for him to return to the prison from which he has just escaped. The convict soon begins to realize that the there was quite a bit more to the gypsy than there at first appeared to be.
Episode 35
Contact
Tue, May 24, 196030 mins
Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his mind plotting a heinous murder. Could this unsettling phenomenon possibly be linked to the antique pocket watch he received as a gift from his wife?
Episode 36
The Lonely Room
Tue, May 31, 196030 mins
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 37
House of the Dead
Tue, Jun 7, 196030 mins
British Lieutenant Fraser, stationed in Hong Kong, is returning home to England and wants to take with him his Chinese fiancée, but when she disappears hours before their departure, a frantic Lt. Fraser finds himself searching through Hong Kong's mysterious side streets and encountering even more mysterious people.
Episode 38
Goodbye Grandpa
Tue, Jun 14, 196030 mins
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
Episode 39
The Storm
Tue, Jun 21, 196030 mins
Three years after the death of artist Pedro Castera, his painting The Storm is unveiled as being recently completed. His college contemporary Adelle Bernheim and her husband travel to Pedro's native village where, after meeting with initial hostility, they are told how the ghost of Pedro enabled one of the villagers to complete the work.