Click the link below for Amazon warehouse deals and every <br />click helps keep this channel running and commercial free<br /><br /><br /><br />. Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (also known as One Step Beyond) was an American anthology <br />series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series was broadcast for three seasons by <br />the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from January 1959 to July 1961<br /><br />Created by Merwin Gerard and produced by Collier Young, One Step Beyond was hosted <br />by John Newland, "your guide to the supernatural" (also credited as "Our guide into <br />the world of the unknown"). Newland, who also directed every episode, presented tales<br /> that explored paranormal events and various situations that defied "logical" explanation.<br /> Unlike other anthology programs, the ABC network series episodes were presented in the form<br /> of straightforward 30-minute docudramas, all said to be based on "human record" <br />(implying historically-factual events); however, the incidents depicted were closer to popular <br />urban legends dramatized for the screen. The program included the corporate name of sponsor <br />Alcoa in its title for its initial run. In syndication, the program title became simply One Step Beyond.<br /><br />One Step Beyond filled the time slot at 10 p.m. Tuesday vacated by the crime/police reality show Confession.<br /><br />Among its varied tales, One Step Beyond dealt with premonition of death ("The Lincoln Assassination") <br />and disaster ("Tidal Wave", "Night of April 14th"); astral projection ("The Long Call"); the existence <br />of ghosts ("The Last Round", "The Death Waltz"); and wildly improbable coincidence ("Reunion", "Death <br />on the Mountain", etc.). Paula Raymond appeared in the third episode of the first season, initially <br />broadcast on February 3, 1959, in the episode titled "Emergency Only," which also memorably featured <br />Jocelyn Brando as a screaming fortune teller at a party.<br /><br />LikeThe Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond is a hosted anthology series about other-wordly phenomena. But it<br /> actually debuted nine months before The Twilight Zone. And while The Twilight Zone was explicitly a <br />fictional show (with both science fiction and fantasy episodes), One Step Beyond purported only to tell<br /> stories based on "human record" (documented historical events). Joan Fontaine and Warren Beatty play husband<br /> and wife in a particularly haunting episode titled "The Visitor."
