Tonight at 12:17 (1960)

Episode 72 of One Step Beyond · One Step Beyond: The Promise · One Step Beyond: Where Are They?

John Newland, Larry Marcus, Peggy Ann Garner, Jane Anna Pritchard · 1960 · 25 min

Every night at 12:17 a pregnant woman hears an aircraft come through her roof. Peggy Ann Garner holds the repetition, which is what the episode is made of.

Chosen print: Archive.org item S3E11TONIGHTAT1217 — S3E11 - TONIGHT AT 12-17.mp4, 156 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: Tonight at 12:17. 27 min. © 6Dec60; LP17894.

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.