Epilogue (1959)

Episode 6 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: Twelve Hours to Live · One Step Beyond: The Dream

John Newland, Don M. Mankiewicz, Charles Aidman, Julie Adams · 1959 · 25 min

Charles Aidman drives to Nevada to win back the wife he drank away, and a mine collapses with her and their son inside. The ghost here is doing something useful, and the episode is unexpectedly moving about it.

Chosen print: Archive.org item S1E6Epilogue_201804 — S1E6 - Epilogue.mp4, 501 MB · 25 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: Epilogue. © 24Feb59; LP13244. (CCE prints LPIZ244; the I/Z are OCR for 13)

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.