The Dream (1959)

Episode 7 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: Epilogue · One Step Beyond: Premonition

John Newland, John Dunkel, Reginald Owen · 1959 · 25 min

A coastal lookout in wartime Britain dreams his wife is being bombed while she dreams commandos are coming for him. Both dreams are true, both wake in time, and Reginald Owen sells the whole thing.

Chosen print: Archive.org item one-step-beyond-collection — s01e07_The-Dream-720p.mp4, 507 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: The dream. © 3Mar59; LP13241.

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.