Mystery / Drama / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series that dramatized purportedly real-life supernatural and paranormal experiences. The series was hosted by John Newland and ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.


Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wide-eyed, Louisiana-drawling wife Sally suddenly becomes a determined and demanding woman with no accent who denies even knowing him.

A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.

Having had his fortune told at a party, a skeptical man's disbelief turns to fear as events begin to unfold exactly as the psychic had predicted.

A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.

Following an argument, a wife begins having visions of her husband in terrible danger.

A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.

In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

A woman is haunted by the fear of her own demise after witnessing a premonition of her death at the hands of a chandelier in her home.

A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.

On a WWI battlefield, a group of French soldiers each experience something which causes them to drop their weapons and walk away from the fight.

The condemned man's not for hanging.

A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the hospital at the time of the supposed visit...

The crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship find that somebody has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mute, soaking wet Oriental whom they clap in irons. The alteration in course leads them to rescue survivors of a ship sunk by an ice berg, though that ship's navigator is dead and is the spitting image of the Oriental, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.

After killing his wife, an adulterous noble becomes increasingly haunted by a stain on the wall which seems to be the image of his dead wife's face.

A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.

A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.

A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

Self - Host

A Knot in Time — Reflection — Mayu found a camera floating in the ocean while she was on vacation. A very unusual camera. The film, mostly intact, reveals a picture of herself with a man she has never seen before. But that is not all. The unusual part is that this camera has not been made yet... and will not be made for another two years. And soon, Mayu finds herself swinging uncontrollably back and forth through time like a pendulum... Mystery Case — File 538 — A down-on-his-luck detective accepts the first case to come his way: surveillance of a man and a little girl. But who are they? And why do aeroplanes that fly over them turn into giant imperial carp? An investigator's normal methods do not apply when reality itself no longer applies...