One Step Beyond Intro

[dsl70]

VCI Entertainment also has a DVD out from this series. Check it out.Nice and clear DVD production they used very nice original prints.

[MZVIRB]

He directed them all!

[rayssonation]

"One Step Beyond" was on ABC-TV from January 23,1959 until July 4,1961.

FYI: This show was produced by Collier Young,who would go on to created and produced one of the most successful detective shows of the late-1960's for NBC called "Ironside"

[TubeGunner]

@FromtheDarkstream - Rod Serling stole WHAT from this?? LOL You are clearly no "huge Twilight Zone" fan, otherwise you'd know better than to spew such nonsense. This show began in 1959 like TZ, but the pilot TZ episode was filmed (and written by Serling of course) in 1958, and Serling was conceiving TZ in '57.

[ghsrunner94]

Lol MADNESS!

[sunrecords56]

I remember when this showcame out it was called Alcoa Presents

[sirdoccy]

THIS IS THE HEAVY HEAVY MONSTER SOUND!!!!

[martinblank83]

@sirdoccy lol

[7980COOL1]

Don`t forget The David Susskind Show which used to air around 12:30am on Channel 5 in NYC ( Otherwise known as Metromedia Station) !

[milehighcherrypie]

Great show! Very scary in its day.

[Carycomic]

@milehighcherrypie

Yes, indeed! I think it used to form a double bill, with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents..." re-runs, on WNEW-5. There'd be the 10:00 NEWS with Bill Jorgenson ("thanking you for your time, this time. Until next time!"). Followed by "One Step Beyond" and AHP (or was it vice-versa?).

[xadam2dudex]

this was a great show.. it could be really scary it was the forerunner of shows like Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone

[afterthefox7]

Whatever happen to "THE WORLD BEYOND" tv series.

[onestepbeyondcult]

5 stars!...i never knew this show existed until the best of...dvd...love it severly!...hey did you know john newland (the host) worked as a director on star trek tos episode 27 errand of mercy! (organian treaty with the klingons)...what a great guy!...he's so cool!/milwaukee

[moorlock2003]

Great news! The very first OFFICIAL release of Season One of the television classic "One Step Beyond" will be out Sept. 15 on CBS/Paramount.

[Kirke182]

I always liked that wagon wheel pattern on the wall. The light in the trunk of my car throws a similar pattern.

[Oglenthorne]

TV used to be scary and creepy by design. Now it's just scary and creepy.

[misshotyoga]

@Oglenthorne LOL

[MOONST0MP]

Shit ! I was lookin for Prince Busters 'One Step Beyond'

[estelle715]

Loved this! It sure did creep my sister and I out,but it never stopped us from watching it! Since all the stories were true it was fascinating! In the 90's there was a similiar show on t.v. about real cases but I can't remember the name of the show. Can anyone help me? This show needs to be brought back. I do remember the "Next Step Beyond" it was good also.

[davogarciao]

lol this is late but are you talking about Beyond Belief: Fact or Ficition?

[estelle715]

This could be it! The one I remember had true stories but with a angel aspect(I think) I also think it had Daren McGavin as the host. One story had a father who died and his widow and child had no money,but knew he must of provided for them. He was a traveling salesman. They needed to find out where he left a bank deposit. Well one day the 3 yr. old girl starting writing on paper these digits and come to find out they found the money. The girl never written anything before. Weird!

[RETROGEMS]

@estelle715

That show hosted by Daren McGavin was called "Miracles And Other Wonders". When I was a little girl, it was one of my all-time favorite shows ever.

[estelle715]

@RETROGEMS  I agree,I just loved that show! Gave me the Willies! I wished we could see the re-runs!

[estelle715]

I just looked on u-tube and saw a episode and James Brolin was the host,so I don't think it was the same. I really want to know! One episode happened just down the road from my town in Ca. It was so foggy there was a big pile-up and ppl were killed. This one man and family were also on the road but he had had earlier flashbacks that warned him of danger. So he pulled off to theside of the rd. and was saved. They kept hearing crashing cars for hrs. All the plots were the same idea!

[davogarciao]

Hmm, perhaps Miracles and other Wonders? I think that Darren McGavin in it. Yeah I like shows like this! They used to creep me out when I was little.

[estelle715]

They need to bring more shows like this back on the air. They STILL creep me out! Thanks again!

[davogarciao]

No problem, you seem like a cool person. I'll send you a friend request, we have a bit in common. :)

It's ok if you don't want to be friends though...

[jebeja]

@estelle715, "They need to bring more shows like this back on the air", etc. If they do, it will be even worse than what you can imagine, these shows were a 'different' kind of scary like Oglenthorne mentioned, in this day and time they're but too much blood shed and the 'gore' factor would not be worth watching in my opinion.

[estelle715]

I THINK YOU GOT IY.Couldn't find anything on u-tube but went on Yahoo and it must be the right one! There was a summary of the show and I remembered that episode. The show was in 1994! WOW! Thank you so much!! What a great show!

[fromthesidelines]

And, 'stillwater', Harry Lubin's score for that episode was mostly "lifted" from the one he wrote for a May 1955 "LORETTA YOUNG SHOW" episode, "I Remember the Rani". He recorded several of his "BEYOND" scores (including the episode you described), conducting the "Berliner Philharmoniker", for a 1959 Decca album, reissued on Varese Sarabande in the '80s...

[fromthesidelines]

Harry Lubin also wrote the score and theme for "THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW" as well (Newland was her most frequent co-star and director before 1959). Several of Lubin's scores for her episodes were later "recycled" by him for "One Step Beyond". The cue "Weird" (which was always heard at a key moment during the episodes) was indeed first used, as 'revue' noted, in Loretta's April 1955 episode, "Feeling No Pain".

[vividwatch47]

I meant to say poor quality public doman D.V.D.s.

[vividwatch47]

When is there ever going to be a definitive D.V.D. edition of "One Step Beyond" instead of those poor quality D.V.D.s (there are no Season 1, 2, or 3 sets)?

[tunnelrat1900]

I was about 5 years old when I first saw this show. I was so scared of walking downstairs for a glass of water at night, that I just went to bed thirsty.

[hammerogod]

"One Step Beyond" was simply a creepy show.....cutting edge TV for it's time.

Better than "The Twilight Zone" in my opinion.

I loved it as a pre-teen....barely old enough to get it, barely old enough to stay up until 9pm when it aired .... but I did get it ... I still remember a couple of the episodes that really kinda scared me.

And John Newland was a bit creepy too.

[kosh2001]

I'm still looking for a episode from season 2

called "Night of the Kill"

[TSMNTR]

The one I find eerie is "Brainwave" that takes place on a Navy destroyer during WWII. The skipper (Whit Bissell) is grievously wounded, and a hard case corpsman (George Grizzard) is the only one who can do anything, he is guided by (Raymond Bailey) a ships surgeon from a nearby ship through the radio-then from beyond.

[RonaldVaughan]

John Newland followed this show up some time

later with "Next Step Beyond";unfortunately,

that show didn't do as well in the ratings.

BTW, Harry Lubin also did some music for THE

OUTER LIMITS.

[vividwatch47]

Harry Lubin indeed scored the second season of "The Outer Limits" though his music pales in comparison with Dominic Frontiere's from the previous season. The main title was a rather flat reworking of the "fear" motif.

[fromthesidelines]

Harry Lubin did indeed write the theme and scores for "THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW" (1953-'61), and did the same for "ONE STEP BEYOND", reusing several of the cues he wrote for Loretta's series. John Newland also directed several episodes of her anthology between 1957and '59, and co-starred with her in at least 13 episodes; so "ONE STEP BEYOND" is basically a supernatural version of her show, with him as "Loretta".

[FromtheDarkstream]

I'd never heard of it before recently - as a huge Twilight Zone fan I am shocked to find that Rod Serling stole his whole routine from One Step Beyond. A great show where all the stories are true.

[revueguy]

Would you beleive that a musical compostion heard frequently during many episodes of OSB titled "Weird" actually originated on an episode of "The Loretta Young Show", where she played a secretary with a toothache who suspected her boss of having an affair, and you can see it yourself on a 3-episode DVD from Digiview. Harry Lubin served as musical director on both shows>

[rockdude1973]

I have three different versions of this show on dvd.One is two disc from the second season and the other two are five and four disc sets.Some of then have the same episodes. It's a shame there's not a proper season collection.

[trentcreek]

You can do it yourself as the Copyright expired and the company made a mistake by not renewing it.

[Tralman1965]

I've just bought a double dvd of this show. I haven't watched it yet. It is only $5:00 at wal-marts! It has 50 episodes on it.

[lhartgal101]

one time the music from the beging of this one episode and my little nephew thought aliens where going to attack earth so he cryed and cryed untill the music stoped. it was kinda creepy...if you were to ask me

[hypnoboy3]

my favorite is about glider pilot friends who vow to meet at this same place after the war..one of them murders another before they glide...all that time passes and then they come back to meet ...one friend is missing...then you see a glider coming into view..it lands and there in the cockpit is a skeleton smiling, not wanting to miss the reunion!...what was this episode called?..this is from memory...id love to see it again.

[37372176]

It is called "Reunion" and I would like to see it as well. The scariest episode that I can recall (except there was one creepy episode that had to do with Spanish moss - the fine, hairlike algae/moss that hangs from certain types of trees)

[EarlSnohomish]

The one that I remember from when I was a kid was the submarine episode. Not scary per se, but chilling nevertheless.

I recall watching "One Step Beyond" on WNEW-TV during the Seventies and then on WLIG (TV-55) around 1985. Good show, whether or not the events actually happened :-).

[blackminiracer]

which episode of "One Step Beyond" is the most scary ?

could you post it ?

[ranwnye]

Yeah, when that music starts, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Please post the most scary.

[stillwaterguy04]

I never have been able to forget an episode about a true incident in India: a mother and daughter were traveling together, and the middle-aged mother sickened, so the daughter left the hotel to go get a doctor. She came back, and there was fresh wallpaper and paint in the room, and the staff, whom she recognized, claimed they had never seen her before. She never saw her mother again. The theory is that the old woman had plague, so they killed her and quickly disposed of her.