The Death Waltz (1960)

Episode 64 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: Anniversary of a Murder · One Step Beyond: The Return

John Newland, Charles Larson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Amanda Ellis · 1960 · 22 min

Elizabeth Montgomery — four years before Bewitched — as a general's daughter who arranges for one suitor to be sent somewhere lethal so she can go to the ball with the other. He said he would come back from hell for her, and Charles Larson takes him at his word.

Chosen print: Archive.org item season-3_202312 — One Step Beyond S3E3 The Death Waltz.mp4, 127 MB · 22 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 death waltz. © 4Oct60; LP17469.

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.