Emergency Only (1959)

Episode 3 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: Night of April 14th · One Step Beyond: The Dark Room

John Newland, Collier Young, Jocelyn Brando, Paula Raymond · 1959 · 26 min

Jocelyn Brando falls into a trance at a cocktail party and tells a stranger not to take his train. Nothing supernatural is ever shown; the episode is about how much social pressure it takes to make somebody ignore a warning, and it is sharper for the restraint.

Chosen print: Archive.org item one.-step.-beyond.-s-01 — One.Step.Beyond.S01E03.Emergency.Only.mp4, 148 MB · 26 min.

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Public domain: registered as published, never renewed. World Television Programming, Inc. registered this episode with the Copyright Office as a published motion picture, which is the fact that matters most — a series that was only broadcast and syndicated was never published, never needed renewing, and would still be protected today. The registration line reads: Emergency only. © 3Feb59; LP16013.

No renewal was filed in the 28th year. The check is not a search for this episode's title, which can be spelled differently on the record than on air; it is a sweep of the Copyright Office's post-1978 records for the claimant's own filings, which returns exactly twelve renewals across the whole series and does not include this one. Underneath, the teleplay is original — no renewal surfaced 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.