One Step Beyond, Vol. 9

Director: John Newland
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Not as good as earlier volumes in the series

One Step Beyond, Vol. 9
Starring: One Step Beyond
Manufacturer: Delta
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ASIN: B0001EFUCS
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Description

Before The Twilight Zone there was…

One Step Beyond

Hosted by John Newland

Have you ever sensed that you've been some place before, or witnessed a bewildering situation involving the unexplainable or the paranormal? Have you ever been curious about past lives, ESP, clairvoyance, apparitions, or out-of-body experiences? If the answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you've taken a small step beyond. Now take a giant step with the One Step Beyond DVD collection, an anthropology of some of the best entertainment from the Golden Age of Television.

Before there was The Twilight Zone, this highly imaginative series set the groundwork for the ironic and abnormal, and was of one of the first to depict "real" accounts of the paranormal. With TV veteran John Newland as your personal "guide to the unknown," One Step Beyond will take you places far beyond your normal, every day reality…and once you take the giant leap, you will never look at things the same way again.

Volume 1:
NIGHT OF APRIL 14
THE DARK ROOM
EPILOGUE
THE DREAM
THE DEAD PART OF THE HOUSE

Volume 2:
THE LOVERS
VANISHING POINT
THE MASK
THE HAUNTING

Volume 3:
ITHE VISION
THE DEVIL'S LAUGHTER
THE RETURN OF MITCHELL CAMPION
THE SECRET

Volume 4:
I SAW YOU TOMORROW
THE PETER HURKOS STORY - PT.1
THE PETER HURKOS STORY - PT.2
DELIA

Volume 5:
THE AERIALIST
THE CAPTAIN'S GUESTS
ECHO
FRONT RUNNER

Volume 6:
GYPSY
GOODBYE GRANDPA
ANNIVERSARY OF A MURDER
MOMENT OF HATE

Volume 7:
THE RIDDLE
DELUSION
ORDEAL ON LOCUST STREET
THE OPEN WINDOW

Volume 8:
TO KNOW THE END
THE TRAP
TONIGHT AT 12:17
WHERE ARE THEY?

Volume 9:
MESSAGE FROM CLARA
FORKED LIGHTNING
DEAD FINGER
THE STONE CUTTER

Volume 10:
LEGACY OF LOVE
RENDEZVOUS
THE EXECUTIONER
THE LAST ROUND

Volume 11:
MAKE ME NOT A WITCH
THE HAND
EARTHQUAKE
CALL FROM TOMORROW

Volume 12:
DEAD MAN'S TALE
PERSON UNKNOWN
NIGHT OF DECISION
MIDNIGHT

Customer Reviews:

Not as good as earlier volumes in the series.......2004-08-25

As One Step Beyond moved from its second season into its third and final season, it seemed to lose some of the consistency it had shown earlier on. There are still some great episodes from this time period, but along with those come a few episodes that don't pack much of a punch. One Step Beyond Volume 9 mixes a couple of pretty good shows with two of lesser quality - always go by the titles showing on the DVD cover, as many of the One Step Beyond DVD product descriptions are seriously mixed up. As always, these are stories that are reportedly based on actual events, with each episode hosted by the wonderfully effective John Newland.

The first episode in this collection, Gypsy, is now - through no fault of its own - somewhat tainted because it stars the now-infamous Robert Blake. There's no denying Blake's acting abilities, though, and he makes a good story even better in this episode that originally aired on May 17, 1960. Ironically, Blake plays a convict here, one who is determined to join his buddies in a prison break. His friend Gypsy urges him to stay and serve out his sentence because he's still young; after the breakout, he continues giving Blake's character the same kind of advice, and therein lies an amazing story.

Goodbye Grandpa was the next to last episode of Season Two, originally airing on June 14, 1960. The story itself is not bad at all, but this episode really just doesn't work. A grandfather promises his grandson that he will never leave before telling him goodbye - naturally, he soon dies, while his grandson is away. But don't give up on Grandpa just yet, as he is a man who keeps his promises. I hate to criticize a young actress, but a real weakness of this episode is the acting of the young lady playing the granddaughter, as she is asked to do more than she is capable of.

The remaining two episodes, both from Season Three, are all about guilt. Anniversary of a Murder, which originally aired on September 27, 1960, has the makings of a great episode but just doesn't deliver. In this story, a man and his mistress accidentally run over a lad on the way home from a rendezvous, cover it up, and deal with a year's worth of guilt - it all boils over in the most inexplicable of ways on the fateful anniversary of the crime. The final episode, Moment of Hate, is my favorite of this bunch. Originally airing on October 25, 1960, this story features a standout performance by Joanne Linville as a distraught woman who believes she has killed someone just by wishing her dead. Her psychiatrist tries to convince her otherwise, despite mounting evidence of an unexplainable phenomenon at work. This one has an ending that, while not completely unpredictable, definitely qualifies as a classic.

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One Step Beyond, Vol. 9
Starring: One Step Beyond
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B000641ZN6
Release Date: 2004-11-23

Reel Values TV Classics, Vol. 9 (Flash Gordon / One Step Beyond)

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Great 50's Sci-Fi Television
ONE STEP BEYOND is great
Fifties TV still fun and cool

Reel Values TV Classics, Vol. 9 (Flash Gordon / One Step Beyond)
Starring: Henry Beckman , Irene Champlin , Steve Holland , and Joseph Nash
Director: Joseph Zigman , and Gunther von Fritsch
Manufacturer: Rph Productions
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000694YL
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Customer Reviews:

Great 50's Sci-Fi Television.......2003-05-04

This disc is a nice look into the state of Sci-Fi television in the 50's. It contains six episodes-three each of FLASH GORDON and ONE STEP BEYOND.
FLASH GORDON turns out to be fairly typical of 50's Sci-Fi, reused special effects (including the use of the same zoom into a planet mock-up to describe several different planets). There are some nice rocketship designs, though the one for Flash's ship is reused once or twice. Steve Holland plays an appropriate Gordon, down to the voice and physique. Very campy, and very fun for it! ONE STEP BEYOND is a nicely done predecessor to OUTER LIMITS and TWILIGHT ZONE. The stories on this DVD deal mainly with psychic phenomena, and are engaging.
The episodes included aren't listed by name on the box, but the main gist of them follows:
FLASH GORDON-
AKIM THE TERRIBLE
Akim is a tyrant running a planet where villainy is the law, and honesty is the crime. His terrible machine turns honest men into killers, and Flash must stop him!
THE BREATH OF DEATH
Flash and Dale visit a prison planet, only to be accosted when one of the inmates who Flash put away escapes and takes over Flash's ship. They must stop on a planetoid to retrieve a cache of fuel left by the prisoner. The problem: he who breathes the air dies!
THE RACE AGAINST TIME
Flash must deliver a delegate to Mars where he will put in a vote to stop the individual planets from getting ahold of the planetary government's technology for themselves. Someone doesn't want them at the meeting, and will do anything to stop them!
ONE STEP BEYOND (There are no titles given for these episodes)
1. A young Robert Blake is a prison inmate (imagine that!) trying to aid in the escape of four others. One called 'Gypsy' is the leader, and doesn't want Blake to go.
2. A woman named Elsie sees her husband die in a military battle during a dream-a battle that happens on August 12th to a husband she's never met!
3. Four WWI French soldiers are on trial and likely to be put to death for leaving the battlefield after encountering deeply personal and amazing visions in a mysterious floating light. Similar to the 'Angels of Mons' visions reported in WWI.

The DVD is fair quality, with the ONE STEP BEYOND episodes being the worst. The 3rd episode is particularly bad, appearing as if it were taken from a tape with a bad tracking pattern. All are watchable and enjoyable. Each of the six episodes is about 30 minutes long, with no available scene selection as the episodes only include one scene each. Nice for the price; less than two dollars per episode!

ONE STEP BEYOND is great.......2003-02-28

I only bought this DVD for ONE STEP BEYOND, so I can't comment on Flash Gordon at all. The DVD comes with NO FRILLS whatsoever...not even a one page insert in the box. But it does have three episodes of each show.

The quality of the picture and sound is average. I doubt they can ever get much better. ONE STEP BEYOND is a kind of forgotten show, long in the public domain, and I doubt that anything short of a major ... effort could restore these shows to something resembling pristine quality.

That being said, the show itself is still more than watchable and enjoyable, and for the price, it is money well spent to take an obscure trip down memory lane. I don't think they picked the all time greatest episodes, but they are solid shows, and I'm glad I made this purchase.

Fifties TV still fun and cool.......2003-01-09

I was really curious about this video as it has three episodes of a Flash Gordon TV series and I'd never seen it..

Compared to the earlier efforts of Chas. Middleton and Buster Crabbe it really didn't measure up..but hey my twenty four year old son watched them with me and we got a barrel of laughs watching it together. Irene Champlin as "Dale Arden" is really pretty cute and kinda sexy in her furlined outfit.

What really awed me though was an enchanted episode of "One Step Beyond"...blew my mind when a bright object was sighted simultaneously by several soldiers on various fronts in November 14, 1915 at 2230 hours military time. This one episode makes the whole disc well worth the money!

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