The Next Step Beyond
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The Next Step Beyond

6.5 / 10
1978
1 season
25 episodes
DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

An updated version of the popular series from the late 50's and early 60's, One Step Beyond. Still hosted by John Newland, this series looked for supposedly real stories of hauntings, strange creatures and supernatural phenomena, and produced dramatic re-creations of them for each new episode. Unlike its predecessor, this series did not attract much of an audience, and ended after only one season.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Tsunami

    6.0
    01-05-1978

    On the West Coast, an autistic 12-year-old boy is the only person aware of an approaching tidal wave, but how can he communicate this critical information to all those in danger?

  • Ep 2

    2.The Return of Cary De Witt

    6.0
    TBA

    Following an appendectomy with complications, Cary DeWitt awakens after a ten-day coma. When he visits Tahiti soon after his recovery, however, everybody insists he has been there...

  • Ep 3

    3.Possessed

    5.0
    TBA

    A couple desperate to save their marriage embark on a doomed road trip. As they drive over a dam, wife Caroline is suddenly possessed by the spirit of a dead Hispanic woman. Her hu...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Love Connection

    6.0
    TBA

    There is a strange, psychic bond between young gymnast Jill August and the catatonic, mourning Harriet Jessup - despite the fact the two have never met. When Jill awakens from an u...

  • Ep 5

    5.Ondine's Curse

    6.0
    TBA

    A man suffering from Ondine's Curse, a rare condition which mimics death, is left for dead after an encounter with a violent hitchhiker. His wife, the only person aware of his stra...

  • Ep 6

    6.Dream of Disaster

    6.0
    TBA

    A pregnant woman has fierce, violent nightmares of a plane crash in which a Cessna 172 goes down and crashes into her room. Her husband, an air-traffic controller, comes to believe...

  • Ep 7

    7.Ghost Town

    7.0
    TBA

    A fashion model inexplicably experiences a vision of murder, unaware that what she is witnessing is a crime more than a quarter-century old.

  • Ep 8

    8.Drums at Midnight

    6.0
    TBA

    An angry would-be heir resorts to voodoo and witchery to get her share of the wealth when she learns that her young stepmother is the main beneficiary of her dead father's enormous...

  • Ep 9

    9.Portrait of the Mind

    6.0
    TBA

    When apprehended for the robbery of a liquor store, an innocent ex-con must depend on the psychic abilities of a police artist who can draw the psychic impressions left behind in t...

  • Ep 10

    10.Other Voices

    6.0
    TBA

    Upon his return home from a party, a man has a powerful premonition of a drunken party-goer murdering his wife. Hoping to prevent the act of murder, Walter acts on his unusual prec...

  • Ep 11

    11.A Matter of Pride

    6.0
    TBA

    A powerful hypnotic suggestion implanted before his last fight plagues down-on-his-luck boxer, Manny Guzman, and may be the only thing that can save a young diabetic from certain d...

  • Ep 12

    12.Ghost of Cellblock Two

    6.0
    TBA

    A fifty-year-old murder and a vengeful spirit play roles in this unusual mystery about a young woman, mistakenly arrested, who finds herself in a haunted prison cell.

  • Ep 13

    13.The Legacy

    6.0
    TBA

    The ghost of a dead railroad worker utilizes his grandson's highly-detailed toy railroad cars and diorama to pinpoint to authorities the exact locations where a ruthless criminal p...

  • Ep 14

    14.Cry Baby

    6.0
    TBA

    While her husband is away for a weekend at a "back to nature" seminar, Susan Elston is cornered in their isolated mountain home by an intruder bent on rape. At the seminar, Susan's...

  • Ep 15

    15.Greed

    6.0
    TBA

    The Barlows, a financially troubled couple, face a future of bankruptcy, creditors, and debt. Forced to stay in a run-down hotel, the Barlows are shocked when a story that could so...

  • Ep 16

    16.Out of Body

    6.0
    TBA

    When Susan Lambert is found murdered in the mountains, her fiance Randall Priest is arrested and tried for the crime, even though he insists he was far away, meditating, during the...

  • Ep 17

    17.Key to Yesterday

    6.0
    TBA

    Following his father's death, a young man named Daniel reopens a theater closed nearly 30 years earlier. The establishment once belonged to Daniel's father, and it could be the key...

  • Ep 18

    18.Woman in the Mirror

    6.0
    TBA

    A man who has gotten away with the murder of his wife sees justice finally reach him each time he looks in a mirror. He is finally undone by his guilty conscience.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Haunted Inn

    6.0
    TBA

    A lost traveler receives directions to a nearby inn from a beautiful woman in a flowing white gown.

  • Ep 20

    20.The Pact

    7.0
    TBA

    A gypsy prophecy from the distant past continues to haunt three siblings, even after twenty years. But is the prophecy actually a self-fulfilling one?

  • Ep 21

    21.Sin of Omission

    6.0
    TBA

    In the upstairs bedroom of their newly purchased house, Diane Hollis hears the cries of a child in pain. Diane believes she is going crazy, but soon she and her husband both witnes...

  • Ep 22

    22.Thunderbolt

    6.0
    TBA

    A freak storm spurs a shared premonition of death for two very different individuals.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Confession

    6.0
    07-02-1978

    A man is convicted of murdering his wife, but he knows he is innocent - despite a persistent mental fugue which seems to confirm his guilt. As events snowball, the man realizes he...

  • Ep 24

    24.Trance of Death

    6.0
    TBA

    After a freak accident during a karate class, Sharon Weaver begins to develop powerful psychic abilities - abilities which come in handy when the daughter of a friend finds herself...

  • Ep 25

    25.To Fight a Ghost

    6.0
    01-04-1979

    A lonely woman is desperate for closure after three years of worrying about her husband, an archaeologist missing and presumed dead in Venezuela. When she is attacked in the park b...

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