One Step Beyond, Vol. 1

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Studio: Platinum Disc
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Excellent Audio and Video Quality on One of My Favorite Series

One Step Beyond, Vol. 1
Starring: One Step Beyond
Manufacturer: Vci Video
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ASIN: B000O5B4HE
Release Date: 2007-04-24

Description

This fascinating anthology series, dealing with supernatural subject matter, debuted on the ABC network, January 20, 1959, and ran for a total of 96 half-hour episodes. John Newland directs and hosts each week's drama dealing with ghosts, precognition, mental telepathy and other spooky supernatural occurrences. Episodes include: Delusion, Ordeal On Locust Street, Brainwave, Doomsday, The Inheritance, The Explorer. Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 150 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1959-1960; SRP - $5.99.

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Excellent Audio and Video Quality on One of My Favorite Series.......2007-04-28

In My Opinion:

I've been disappointed with past purchases of DVDs of One Step Beyond, specifically that 50 episode DVD. However, was I surprised with this DVD. I am usually more concerned about the Quality than the actual episodes, because I've seen them all, and there are really about only four of the ninety-seven or so episodes that I don't care to watch..

The Video is about as crisp, clear, and bright as I think we're going to see until there is a serious remastering of this series.

The Audio is clear, understandable, and lacking of any hum or hiss that is present in the other DVDs that I have purchased.

The Episodes are:

- Delusion
- Ordeal on Locust Street
- Brainwave
- Doomsday
- The Inheritance
- The Explorer

While these are not considered to be the most popular episodes, according to the ratings at [...] I really enjoyed the Quality of the DVD, the acting, the scenes, and the presence of John Newland.

This DVD is definitely an improvment over the One Step Beyond DVDs I've purchased in the past.

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Not as good as I remember :(
Five of the earliest episodes of TV's creepiest show

One Step Beyond, Vol. 1
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ASIN: B0001EFUAK
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

Customer Reviews:

Not as good as I remember :(.......2007-04-09

I watched most of this serious as a kid and I thought that I would really enjoy this DVD. I also have several DVDs of TZ and I find them far superior to One Step Beyond. You may not agree, but I'm spending my money on the complete set of TZ and the X Files. Both are far better that OSB!

Five of the earliest episodes of TV's creepiest show.......2004-07-13

Everyone is familiar with The Twilight Zone, but how many know about One Step Beyond? Even I, a huge fan of classic television and the outré in all its forms, was completely unfamiliar with this show until some time last year. One Step Beyond is sort of like The Twilight Zone - except it's actually much better. I love Rod Serling, but there was always a sense of otherness about him and his famous show. With One Step Beyond and John Newland - the show's guide into the unknown - you had a much different experience. The strange story chronicled each week was reportedly based on actual events, and this lent the show a force and visceral connection with the viewer that could not be found in fictional shows of the same type. One Step Beyond is oftentimes genuinely creepy - as much now as it was when it originally aired. Newland's persona was perfect for the show's desired effect, there was no dependence on strange twists or unexpected endings to save an otherwise bland episode, and the music greatly added to the whole effect. I've read a number of comments by those who remember watching the show as a young person and being spooked if not quite frightened by what they saw; when you have viewers already gripping the arms of their chairs before your host even appears to say a word, you are definitely doing something right. I can't imagine why the show only aired for three seasons, beginning in early 1959 and ending in the summer of 1960. It not only pre-dates The Twilight Zone, it goes it one better.

This DVD features five of the earliest episodes of the show. Night of April 14 (originally aired on January 27, 1959) was the show's second episode and, as you might guess, concerns the events of April 14, 1912 - the night the Titanic slipped down into its watery grave. A bride-to-be has an awful nightmare of drowning in cold water, unable to find the man she is to marry in the chaos around her; the next day, her fiancé (played by Patrick MacNee who would go on to great fame playing John Steed in The Avengers) suddenly announces that the honeymoon in Switzerland has now become a honeymoon to New York on board the Titanic. The bride gives in to her future hubby's wishes, despite more dreams wherein she sees the name of Titanic on the boats around her, and - well, you know what happened. The episode also features the stories of a couple of individuals thousands of miles away who have prescient premonitions of the disaster, as well. The episode closes with a description of the book Futility, written by Morgan Robertson and published in 1898 - it is the story of a huge, luxurious ship called the Titan which hits an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks - the similarities to the Titanic and its fate are indeed quite eerie.

Cloris Leachman stars in The Dark Room (which originally aired on February 10, 1959); she is an American photographer who has come to France to capture the essence of the French people in pictures. Her first subject has a wonderful face, but the stranger eventually goes off the deep end and attacks her - his identity, when it is finally revealed, definitely takes the story "one step beyond." Epilogue (which originally aired February 24, 1959) is an especially memorable episode. Let this be a lesson to all: abandoned mines are not a good place for mother-son outings; the manner in which the estranged husband is alerted to his son's entrapment in the mine did, I am sure, inspire shivers down the spines of countless viewers across the country.

The Dream (original airdate: March 3, 1959) takes us to Britain during the early days of World War II. Here we witness a double dream that would seem to indicate that love knows no earthly bounds. This collection closes with The Dead Part of the House (original airdate: March 17, 1959), an episode which is creepy in a good way. Jennifer, Rose, and Mary help bring a father and daughter together following the death of the girl's mother - but are the trio of little girls merely dolls, or are they the ghosts of three little girls who haunt the nursery where they died?

Customer Reviews:

Good, Old-fashioned Ghosts!.......2005-05-01

These television morality tales of poltergeists, teletransportation and audio hauntings remind me very much of the best mystery-radio shows like "Lights Our" and "The Wierd Circle."

All 3 episodes are very watchable, with characters a little more complex than the better-known "Twilight Zone" offered.

The best one, "The Affair," takes place in England and concerns a doomed wedding chilled by the spector of WWII, madness and murder.

Good, uld-fashioned ghost stories the entire family can enjoy.

"Anniversary of a Murder" is the second-best entry, marked my unexpectedly terrific acting.

The last episode, "The Airialist" is slightly marred by Mike Connors (of "Mannix" fame) hamming it up as a tortured circus performer, but the script delivers a a potent melancholy.

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John Newland: One Step Beyond, Vol. 1
Starring: One Step Beyond
Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00049QK1K
Release Date: 2004-01-01

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10 Best Episodes Ever!

One Step Beyond, Vol. 1 and 2
Starring: One Step Beyond
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00062IXGA
Release Date: 2004-12-07

Customer Reviews:

10 Best Episodes Ever!.......2006-04-23

Wow! 23 minute uncut episodes in glorious B+W; Digitally enhanced 5.1 audio; fine selection of shows; what more could you want? These are the shows, I'm sure you'll agree: The Vision, The Riddle, The Lovers, Anniversary of a Murder, The Sorcerer, Vanishing Point, Dead Ringer, The Open Window, Gypsy, & To Know the End! A truly mind tingling experience with authentic stories that will never let you look at things the same way again - taking you one step beyond every day reality! Set your way back machine to 1959; 9 months before the original Twilight Zone; and enjoy these classic episodes!

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