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One Step Beyond
1959 - 1961 5.6 (13 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Mystery Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
ABC

One Step Beyond

Overview

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.

Key Crew

Producer: Collier Young

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1959)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Bride Possessed
1959-01-20

Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wide-eyed, Louisiana-drawling wife Sally suddenly becomes a determined and demanding woman with no accent who denies even knowing him.

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Episode 2: Night of April 14th
1959-01-27

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.

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Episode 3: Emergency Only
1959-02-03

A set of circumstances outside the norm.

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Episode 4: The Dark Room
1959-02-10

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.

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Episode 5: Twelve Hours to Live
1959-02-17

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Episode 6: Epilogue
1959-02-24

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.

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Episode 7: The Dream
1959-03-03

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.

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Episode 8: Premonition
1959-03-10

Forewarned is forearmed.

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Episode 9: The Dead Part of the House
1959-03-17

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.

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Episode 10: The Vision
1959-03-24

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.

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Episode 11: The Devil's Laughter
1959-03-31

The condemned man's not for hanging.

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Episode 12: The Return of Mitchell Campion
1959-04-07

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...

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Episode 13: The Navigator
1959-04-14

The crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship find that somebody has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mute, soaking wet Oriental whom they clap in irons. The alteration in course leads them to rescue survivors of a ship sunk by an ice berg, though that ship's navigator is dead and is the spitting image of the Oriental, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Secret
1959-04-21

Is she, or is she not, unfaithful?

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Episode 15: The Aerialist
1959-04-28

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.

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Episode 16: The Burning Girl
1959-05-05

Everywhere she goes, you need a fire hose.

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Episode 17: The Haunted U-Boat
1959-05-12

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.

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Episode 18: The Image of Death
1959-05-19

""Let her paint an inch thick...""

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Episode 19: The Captain's Guests
1959-05-26

The Captain and Mr. & Mrs. Courtney.

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Episode 20: Echo
1959-06-02

A man is found innocent of his wife's murder. Her brother arrives from New Zealand and precipitates the real culprit's capture.

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Episode 21: Front Runner
1959-06-09

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

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Episode 22: The Riddle
1959-06-16

An irrational hatred in an American tourist on the Bombay-Calcutta Mail is considered in terms of metempsychosis.

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Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1959)

No overview available.

39 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Delusion
1959-09-15

A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her.

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Episode 2: Ordeal on Locust Street
1959-09-22

A turn-of-the-century English family hides a dark secret: a son who was born part human and part aquatic creature. A discredited doctor attempts to use his controversial ""mind force"" (a powerful hypnotic technique) to physically transform the unfortunate young man.

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Episode 3: Brainwave
1959-10-06

During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .

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Episode 4: Doomsday
1959-10-13

A Scottish earl executes his son's lover for being a suspected witch, and with her last words the doomed young women places a curse on the earl's family. Hundreds of years later, the current earl of the family lives in fear of this curse – because every elder son in the past has been a victim of it . . . and his time is approaching . . .

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Night of the Kill
1959-10-20

Under cover of darkness.

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Episode 6: The Inheritance
1959-10-27

A wealthy but cruel woman torments her gigolo boyfriend and her timid maid. But a demoniacally possessed diamond necklace inflicts a horrible punishment on the women who try to wear it.

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Episode 7: The Open Window
1959-11-03

On a hot summer night, a disillusioned artist sits by the open window of his New York apartment and witnesses an attempted suicide by a young woman in the adjacent building. He rushes next door to save her . . . but he finds the apartment empty! Later, when the exact same vision is repeated, he begins to doubt his sanity.

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Episode 8: Message from Clara
1959-11-10

An English instructor teaching immigrants finds herself writing at the blackboard in a language she doesn't understand. It turns out to be a warning against one of her students.

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Episode 9: Forked Lightning
1959-11-17

Investigation of a double premonition: two strangers who knew death would find them at the end of the day.

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Episode 10: Reunion
1959-11-24

World War II fliers' gathering takes an unusual turn.

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Episode 11: Dead Ringer
1959-12-01

A turn-of-the-century newlywed claims that her evil twin sister is responsible for a series of fires set in orphanages. When her husband has the claim investigated, he learns that his wife's sister died years ago -- in a fire at the orphanage where the sisters lived . . .

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Episode 12: The Stone Cutter
1959-12-08

A tombstone carver has a very strange revelation.

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Episode 13: Father Image
1959-12-15

Daniel Gardner's father has left him some property, including an old boarded-up burlesque house. No-one can understand why he never sold the place, until an accident causes Dan to go back in time and discover the reason.

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Episode 14: Make Me Not a Witch
1959-12-22

A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children.

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Episode 15: The Hand
1959-12-29

""These five kings."" (D. Thomas)

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Episode 16: The Justice Tree
1960-01-05

Matters of life and death.

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Episode 17: Earthquake
1960-01-12

The bellhop who foretold The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

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Episode 18: The Forests of the Night
1960-01-19

A Chinese fortune leads to an Ovidian transformation.

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Episode 19: Call from Tomorrow
1960-01-26

Don't call us, we'll call you.

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Episode 20: Who Are You?
1960-02-02

""I'm nobody."" (Dickinson)

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Episode 21: The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story
1960-02-09

In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln has a dream in which he foresees his own death. His wife Mary has a similarly fatalistic vision but other, ordinary Americans who have never met Lincoln, also experience psychic phenomena. The next evening the president goes to Ford's Theatre where his killer is waiting.

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Episode 22: The Lovers
1960-02-16

Ghosts are smitten with a smooch.

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Episode 23: Vanishing Point
1960-02-23

Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he's accused of murdering her.

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Episode 24: The Mask
1960-03-01

""It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice."" Hawthorne, ""The Great Stone Face""

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Episode 25: The Haunting
1960-03-08

The bridegroom kills the best man.

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Episode 26: The Explorer
1960-03-15

An archaeological team becomes lost in the desert, but they encounter a young explorer who possesses life-saving knowledge of the region's ancient history. However, months later the leader of the expedition discovers that the young man he met in the dessert could not possibly be who he claimed to be . . . or could he?

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Episode 27: The Clown
1960-03-22

A mute carnival clown witnesses the abusive relationship between a beautiful young lady and her cruel husband. After fleeing from her husband, the young lady seeks refuge in the clown's trailer. The husband burst in, commits an act of violence, and then flees – only to find the spectral presence of the clown haunting his every step.

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Episode 28: I Saw You Tomorrow
1960-04-05

""There is no new thing under the sun."" Proverbs

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Episode 29: Encounter
1960-04-12

Without a plane, a pilot appears.

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Episode 30: The Peter Hurkos Story (1)
1960-04-19

Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

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Episode 31: The Peter Hurkos Story (2)
1960-04-26

Following his experiences Hurkos begins to work with parapsychologist Dr Lindsteom and the police and is credited with assisting in the capture of real-life serial killers. Hurkos himself finally appears on screen.

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Episode 32: Delia
1960-05-03

While vacationing at a tropical resort, a cynical and unhappy young man meets a beautiful young lady who speaks cryptically about the many times they've met before. The two fall instantly in love -- but the next day he cannot find her . . . and the other resort guests claim he spent the evening alone.

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Episode 33: The Visitor
1960-05-10

A man returns to his past.

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Episode 34: Gypsy
1960-05-17

A prisoner's encounter with the supernatural is recounted.

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Episode 35: Contact
1960-05-24

A hands-on approach.

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Episode 36: The Lonely Room
1960-05-31

Young Henri Lamont, shy and desperate for a girlfriend, is staggered to find that when he goes into a certain room and looks out of the window he sees himself walking down the street with a beautiful young girl and decides to investigate how this could have come about.

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Episode 37: House of the Dead
1960-06-07

A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic message on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the ""House of the Dead"" . . .

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Episode 38: Goodbye Grandpa
1960-06-14

An old railroad man keeps his promise.

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Episode 39: The Storm
1960-06-21

no sooner out the hermit-dorm I found the calm that follows storm Beckett

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Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1960)

No overview available.

36 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Tidal Wave
1960-08-30

As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can save the poor young women – accept perhaps the strange and illusive phenomenon known as . . . telepathy.

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Episode 2: Anniversary of a Murder
1960-09-27

In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lonely road. They desperately try to cover up the tragedy . . . but the dead man has other ideas . . .

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Episode 3: The Death Waltz
1960-10-04

The Merry Widow?

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Episode 4: The Return
1960-10-11

These were the swift to harry...

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Episode 5: If You See Sally
1960-10-18

Her brother dies, and she is blamed, so she departs.

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Episode 6: Moment of Hate
1960-10-25

A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.

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Episode 7: To Know the End
1960-11-01

...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.

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Episode 8: The Trap
1960-11-15

Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.

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Episode 9: The Voice
1960-11-22

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. Keats

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Episode 10: The Promise
1960-11-29

But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost

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Episode 11: Tonight at 12:17
1960-12-06

An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.

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Episode 12: Where Are They?
1960-12-13

Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.

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Episode 13: Legacy of Love
1960-12-20

A romance of past and present.

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Episode 14: Rendezvous
1960-12-27

A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.

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Episode 15: The Executioner
1961-01-03

A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.

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Episode 16: The Last Round
1961-01-10

A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.

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Episode 17: Dead Man's Tale
1961-01-17

A reporter makes a find in the Yukon.

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Episode 18: The Sacred Mushroom
1961-01-24

Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.

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Episode 19: The Gift
1961-01-31

Neither shadow of turning.

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Episode 20: Person Unknown
1961-02-07

In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.

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Episode 21: Night of Decision
1961-02-21

General Washington doubts, but is saved.

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Episode 22: The Stranger
1961-02-28

In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.

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Episode 23: Justice
1961-03-07

Its long arm finally resolves an eyewitness and an alibi.

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Episode 24: The Face
1961-03-14

Persistence of evil vision.

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Episode 25: The Room Upstairs
1961-03-21

A Londoner hears a child crying for help.

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Episode 26: Signal Received
1961-04-04

On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""

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Episode 27: The Confession
1961-04-11

The prosecution rests badly after an innocent man gets it.

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Episode 28: The Avengers
1961-04-25

How the past determines the future.

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Episode 29: The Prisoner
1961-05-02

The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.

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Episode 30: Blood Flower
1961-05-16

Flores, flores para los muertos.

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Episode 31: The Sorcerer
1961-05-23

An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.

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Episode 32: The Villa
1961-06-06

A room with a view.

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Episode 33: Midnight
1961-06-13

While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

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Episode 34: The Tiger
1961-06-20

A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.

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Episode 35: Nightmare
1961-06-27

Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a vacation, at the encouragement of his friend Geoffrey, with him stopping abruptly at the door of one cottage within which a woman dwells, one who has grieved the loss of her own fiance lost in the World War of '16, two days before their wedding was to have been. Apparently, Paul is his reincarnation since he was born when her fiance died as Paul instantly understands when he spies his likeness in that photograph on the mantle, the engagement picture. Now closure seems to happen for them all.

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Episode 36: Eye Witness
1961-07-04

A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.

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