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One Step Beyond - S1 - E21

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A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.

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One Step Beyond: Season 1 - 22 Episode s

1x1 - The Bride Possessed
January 20, 1959
The nuptial visage.
1x2 - Night of April 14th
January 27, 1959
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
1x3 - Emergency Only
February 3, 1959
A set of circumstances outside the norm.
1x4 - The Dark Room
February 10, 1959
A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.
1x5 - Twelve Hours to Live
February 17, 1959
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
1x6 - Epilogue
February 24, 1959
A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.
1x7 - The Dream
March 3, 1959
In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.
1x8 - Premonition
March 10, 1959
Forewarned is forearmed.
1x9 - The Dead Part of the House
March 17, 1959
A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.
1x10 - The Vision
March 24, 1959
In the trenches in WWI, soldiers as usual are dying like flies as expected. All of a sudden the French troops drop their arms and walk very serenely away from the front. Hearing of this the generals bring them up on charges of dissertion, a capital crime. Tremaine is the advocate for their case. They don't seem to want to defend themselves for their inexplicable behavior, not in a way that makes sense. While waiting for the fateful morn, he seeks out a bottle of something special that they request as a last toast. Beckoned to the cottage of a little French boy's family, they are set upon by a German who recounts similar stories of walking away from the front all at the same time on the German side. Rushing back to HQ, Tremaine succeeds in staying the sentence at the last moment, as the officers confirm the veracity of the stories, a mystical event.
1x11 - The Devil's Laughter
March 31, 1959
The condemned man's not for hanging.
1x12 - The Return of Mitchell Campion
April 7, 1959
A man is known by everyone on a Caribbean island he has never visited before. Soon he too remembers, but he was in the hospital at the time of the supposed visit...
1x13 - The Navigator
April 14, 1959
Dead reckoning.
1x14 - The Secret
April 21, 1959
Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?
1x15 - The Aerialist
April 28, 1959
An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.
1x16 - The Burning Girl
May 5, 1959
Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.
1x17 - The Haunted U-Boat
May 12, 1959
While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone . . . or something . . . on board the submarine.
1x18 - The Image of Death
May 19, 1959
""Let her paint an inch thick...""
1x19 - The Captain's Guests
May 26, 1959
The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.
1x20 - Echo
June 2, 1959
A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.
1x21 - Front Runner
June 9, 1959
A jockey plays foul, and finally is brought up short.
1x22 - The Riddle
June 16, 1959
An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

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