One Step Beyond (1959)
84 in the stash — one torrent each
The Episodes
- 1Anniversary of a Murder↓
- 1Blood Flower↓
- 1Brainwave↓
- 1Call from Tomorrow↓
- 1Contact↓
- 1Dead Man's Tale↓
- 1Dead Ringer↓
- 1Delia↓
- 1Delusion↓
- 1Doomsday↓
- 1Earthquake↓
- 1Echo↓
- 1Emergency Only↓
- 1Encounter↓
- 1Epilogue↓
- 1Father Image↓
- 1Forests of the Night↓
- 1Forked Lightning↓
- 1Front Runner↓
- 1Goodbye Grandpa↓
- 1Gypsy↓
- 1House of the Dead↓
- 1I Saw You Tomorrow↓
- 1If You See Sally↓
- 1Legacy of Love↓
- 1Make Me Not a Witch↓
- 1Message From Clara↓
- 1Moment of Hate↓
- 1Night of April 14th↓
- 1Night of Decision↓
- 1Night of the Kill↓
- 1Ordeal on Locust Street↓
- 1Person Unknown↓
- 1Premonition↓
- 1Rendezvous↓
- 1Reunion↓
- 1The Aerialist↓
- 1The Bride Possessed↓
- 1The Burning Girl↓
- 1The Captain's Guests↓
- 1The Clown↓
- 1The Dark Room↓
- 1The Day the World Wept: The Lincoln Story↓
- 1The Dead Part of the House↓
- 1The Death Waltz↓
- 1The Devil's Laughter↓
- 1The Dream↓
- 1The Executioner↓
- 1The Explorer↓
- 1The Gift↓
- 1The Hand↓
- 1The Haunted U-Boat↓
- 1The Haunting↓
- 1The Image of Death↓
- 1The Inheritance↓
- 1The Justice Tree↓
- 1The Last Round↓
- 1The Lonely Room↓
- 1The Lovers↓
- 1The Mask↓
- 1The Navigator↓
- 1The Open Window↓
- 1The Peter Hurkos Story (Part I)↓
- 1The Peter Hurkos Story (Part II)↓
- 1The Promise↓
- 1The Return↓
- 1The Return of Mitchell Campion↓
- 1The Riddle↓
- 1The Sacred Mushroom↓
- 1The Secret↓
- 1The Stone Cutter↓
- 1The Storm↓
- 1The Trap↓
- 1The Villa↓
- 1The Vision↓
- 1The Visitor↓
- 1The Voice↓
- 1Tidalwave↓
- 1To Know the End↓
- 1Tonight at 12:17↓
- 1Twelve Hours to Live↓
- 1Vanishing Point↓
- 1Where Are They?↓
- 1Who are You?↓
- 96 episodes withheld — see The Rights below
The Series
Every week for three years, John Newland walked out of the dark, looked straight down the lens and told you that what followed had happened to somebody. Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond ran on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961 — half an hour, no monster, no explanation, and a closing shrug where a twist should be. It beat The Twilight Zone to air by nine months and went the opposite way with the same material: Rod Serling wrote parables, Merwin Gerard's show claimed to be reporting. Premonitions, hauntings, a wife possessed on her honeymoon, a U-boat crew hearing a voice in an empty compartment — presented as case files, because the series' whole nerve was the flat assertion that these were true.
Newland directed all ninety-seven of them himself, which almost nothing on television can say, and it shows in how consistent the mood is: long silences, faces held too long, a camera that drifts when it should cut. Harry Lubin's theremin theme does the rest. It is a cheaper show than its reputation and a stranger one — some episodes are genuinely eerie, some are a man in a room explaining a coincidence for twenty-six minutes, and the series is more interesting for containing both.
Each episode is its own torrent. Twelve of them are not here, and the page for the run says exactly why.
The copy we chose
Print Report
Episode-level prints, one per torrent. Sources and per-episode verification are on each episode's own page; the series page carries no torrent of its own.
Public Domain
Why It's Free
Verified episode by episode, not as a series — the only way this shelf is allowed to work. Each episode's own page carries its receipt.
Two things had to be true of every episode before any of it could publish. First, that World Television Programming, Inc. registered it with the Copyright Office as a published motion picture — because a show that was only broadcast and syndicated was never published, never needed renewing, and is protected as an unpublished work-for-hire into the 2070s no matter what a public-domain list says. It did: the Catalog of Copyright Entries motion-picture volumes for 1959, 1960 and 1961 carry the entries under the series title and the claimant's name, each with its own copyright date and LP number. Second, that no renewal was filed in the 28th year. A sweep of the Copyright Office's own records for the claimant returns exactly twelve renewals, all from December 1989, all season three.
Those twelve episodes are still under copyright and are not published here — the gaps in the run are listed on this page rather than passed over in silence. Eight more are held back because their registration line is not legible in the scanned volumes; they are not published either until someone reads the page images. Underneath, the scripts are original teleplays with no renewal under any credited writer, and Harry Lubin's theme returned no renewal under composer or title — so unlike most vintage television, nothing survives in the music.
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