Delia (1960)

Episode 54 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: The Peter Hurkos Story (Part II) · One Step Beyond: The Visitor

John Newland, Merwin Gerard · 1960 · 25 min

A man spends eight years looking for a girl who walked off an island and did not come back. Patient, sad, and light on incident by design.

Chosen print: Archive.org item S2E32Delia — S2E32 - Delia.m4v, 402 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: Delia. 27 min. © 3May60; LP19586. (read from the Jul-Dec 1961 volume)

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.