In many cases, being done in black & white actually enhanced the atmosphere of the show, especially with "The Twilight Zone," which seemed to greatly benefit from the noir-esque quality inherent to b&w film.
A well written story with just right amount of pathos from actors makes whole lot of difference. Even today with GCI and digital effects, amazing sound effects and top notch actors, if writing is flat or makes no sense, the production is a waste of film.
Man the amount of action and excitement they could put into a half hour back then, far outshines the trash they try in 90 minutes today. Back then, we had imagination to fill in gaps, and no need for ultra gore being displayed.
Thanks for the memories ❤️ I can't resist watching these old shows, no matter what time of day it is. Anything to keep my mind off the current events. And what a mess this world is becoming politically.
Holy cow !!! This series is beyond phenomenal. I stumbled across an episode starring Christopher Lee and was utterly blown away by his astounding performance. Something about this series seems to bring out the very finest in the actors. Super high praise for this series.
Absolutely brilliant series! Such a find! Thanks to whoever put these up. The stories and acting are superb. Amazing that these were all true stories. Much better than most stuff on TV now!😊
You miss intelligent television? That is because they had experienced and experimented screenwriters touching on all themes then present. Later,as television matured,came all the shows with moral lessons like Paladin, Gunsmoke, etc.. Today,kids see some TV with idiotic sitcoms,reality TV and other stupid shows that are mindless. There's no school like new school reviewing old school. How about Dick Wolf's Co. covering issues today like: Chicago P.D. and Law & Order SVU?
Make that ALMOST intelligent TV....to get to the survivors the ship would have needed to go NNE, not W b NW as shown on the board....but still better than some of the crud shown now.
Only now do we realize how lucky we were to have shows like this when we were Young and not that bullshit they show today kids don't have to use their minds for ANYTHING!!!!
Rupert May, boy you said it! I thank God I was born in the 50s with memories of "the good ol days"... And they really were. Respect, patriotism, prayer in schools, using our brains to do research in real books, etc. Sure, every era has its negatives, but I say high technology is going to be the serious dwindling/shrinking of the human brain... Just look around, this generation of youngsters. Scares the living crap outta me! New World Order is on the horizon, and dumb-downs are welcoming it..... (Shivers) Well, its in Revelations... So Im not too surprised; only by the quick advancing of it in my lifetime... In the blink of an eye its growing.. But, just maybe we're behind the times, in the eyes of aliens, walking amongst us. Just a little food for thought....?
This was one of the TV series that I enjoyed watching back in the early 60s; along with Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Science Fiction Theater, etc.
Wish we have a time machine-the good olde days -Thank-you Mr John Newland, the 50s 60s-One step beyond are still great to watch-2021-, hollywood dont make good shows any-more,sadly tHANKS again-Greetings from England
This was a killer episode. The soundstage was far from the usual four walls and furniture. Looked convincing enough. Well acted and written. It covers a lot of ground in its half hour format. That end theme was the soundtrack of my nightmares..
@Ivor Presents: This episode is getting a lot of views lately. CZcams must be promoting it. I'm getting a better appreciation of it from comments . . .
@@one-step-beyond-1959 It was a terrific plot because it covered the classic ghost story angle and added in the psychological factor of the effects of aging on a person's competence OR on other peoples' perception of his competence. Thanks so much for sharing this one.
60 years old , worked in television production for almost 40 yrs. I have never seen or was even aware of this series and I can't thank you enough for posting these classics.
@michaelanthony perez: Glad you found this channel. I only discovered OSB myself 3 years ago -- and had never heard of it before. I've speculated elsewhere about why it's been comparatively unknown . . .
@Lady Jupiter Well, people here maybe don't realize how much it's meant to me to have them share these kinds of reminiscences. I'm grateful for it -- thanks . . .
I saw this when it was first run on TV. Shows you how old I am! But it’s the one episode I remember vividly after all these years. Gave me goose bumps then, and still does today.
Yes, I would agree with that very much. Its evident in films in the 1950s and early 60s, that were shot in B&W versus those that werent. I think for example the impact of Psycho, by Hitchcock, had an atmosphere unobtainable in colour. Same would go for the 'Jazz-noire' films of the 50s too.
My husband was in the merchant marine for thirty years and well acquainted with 'scary sea tales"..For anyone who also loves these stories, look up William Hope Hodgson, a former cabin boy and seafarer. Hodgson wrote riveting, eerie tales of mysteries at sea. They are still in print...Enjoy, and shiver your timbers!!
Its actually Sliver me timbers. Sailors would take their cutlasses and hack into the masts so pirates couldn't swing from rigging to rigging and slide down like a fireman sliding down a pole in a fire house.
It refers to the effects of a collision, which suddenly stops the forward momentum of the ship and "shivers" (shakes) her timbers (rib structure). If a person sees something horrible or recalls/anticipates a dread incident, his body shakes in similar fashion. The phrase can be generalized to refer to the speaker's recalling, or anticipating, something momentous. Used as a means of emphasis in speech. "Shiver me timbers, but that's the foulest weather I ever seen."
Great acting. I haven't gone to a movie or watched TV in years. It has no meaning or value anymore. But, this, and shows like it are not wasted time. Anyway, the story was great. The meaning was heroic. The navigator had one intention, to save his mates, and that intention was fired even after death. Pretty amazing concept. I believe that that kind of dedication exists for the living and the dead. Just people who care more for others than themselves. Beautiful story.
I read of a similar incident, in WW2. A merchant ship was sunk, and several survivors, including the badly injured navigator escaped in a lifeboat. On the bridge of a ship some hours away, a man suddenly appeared reciting a set of numbers. Recognizing it it as a lat/long position, the ship changed course. Eventually the ship came across the lifeboat, and rescued the survivors. The navigator, who had been delirious and mumbling for hours, died shortly before rescue. The crew of the rescuing ship were amazed to recognize the navigator as the man who suddenly appeared on their bridge, giving the position of his shipmates.
The difference between the story your relating and the this one is the navigator in your story must have given the position of the ship in minutes and seconds which would have been the only certain way of locating the sunken ship. In this story however steering a course of west by north west would have been just to inexact to have found these survivors. I'm no expert were navigation is concerned but i would say that by steering a course that vague the sunken ship could have gone down anywhere within thousand mile if not a lot more of this ships heading not that a ship of this period would have been on course this inexact in the first place by this time all ships were using minutes and seconds to show their exact position
@@johnlewis9158 I think they just simplified it for the sake of the non seafaring TV audience. They would more than likely know compass directions, but most would not understand latitude and longitude locations.
Very creepy, but my grandfather who was a sailor out of Newfoundland 100 years ago would probably not think of this is something impossible. Men who sailed the ocean for weeks saw some pretty strange and inexplicable things in there travels.
So much intensity, conflict, and drama packed in 25 minutes. It couldn't have been done any better..a masterpiece for the series. With a nod to the actor playing the captain..stands out particularly.
Yes, it's one of the more tightly written episodes. That's probably in part because it was actually a refinement of a previous episode: czcams.com/video/LYzjQcBM0Ys/video.html
@@celestialskye1 His name is Robert Ellenstein. He was in a stack of TV and movies from the 1950s to the '90s but usually in supporting roles. Seems odd that he rarely got a top billing but always kept busy, in theatre if not on screen.
@Chalmer Basham: They say . . . that the current HS generation may be the very last to read and appreciate Shakespeare as a matter of course (like happened with Chaucer). Count me grateful to have been born when I was . . .
I was addicted to this show as a kid. So glad I can watch them again. I always thought this series was much better than the better known "Twilight Zone" and John Newland much more interesting than Rod Serling.
Rod Serling was a legend, a veteran of ww2 which is fairly obvious from many of the twilight zone episodes. He was a paratrooper who wanted to fight against Hitler but was sent to the pacific. He saw combat in the battle of Leyte receiving two wounds. And was part of the unit that took Manila, which had minimal resistance until reaching the city where block by block fighting occurred, his regiment had a 50% casualty rate, and he was eventually wounded by shrapnel that killed three of his comrades. He was also part of the occupation force in Japan. He received a Purple Heart, a bronze star, and the Philippine liberation medal. While in the pacific, a friend of his was preforming a comedic monologue for the platoon, as this was happening a plane dropped a food crate which decapitated him, his name was Melvin Levy. These experiences influenced Serling, his work, his politics, and as a person, being pretty progressive especially for the time on race, war, censorship, and he clashed with studios over them. Serling was an incredible person, very interesting, I would suggest anyone look into and learn about him. I don’t blame anyone for liking One Step Beyond more than the Twilight Zone, I prefer the Twilight Zone myself but both were phenomenal, and there were other great shows that were similar and just as good, like The Outer Limits.. Tales Of Tomorrow was another but was earlier by a few years if I’m not mistaken.
Unlike the Twilight Zone these shows were based on real stories. Whether the facts were the way the program portrayed them is a different matter. I looked up one story and it was not exactly the way the program portrayed but which one is actually correct who knows!
I'm very much enjoying watching these One Step Beyond episodes. Good stories, well told, and there's something special about John Newland's commentary (and directing). I was a little too young to understand these when they originally aired and re-run in the early 60's. Thank you for making them available.
Anthologies like this and The Twilight Zone along with Outer Limits and to a certain extent Night Gallery were written by people who knew what the television audience wanted.
You forgot to mention Thriller. That show's adaptation of The Pigeons From Hell scarred me for life. All it tskes is my fladhlight battery to dim out outside in the dark or down in the basement and I break into a sweat.
Thank you so very much for making these available . They provide major comfort at night and is always a joy to view with my mother when I pay her a visit. I love the fact that all these stories are first hand accounts and I’ve never seen an episode that disappoints.
I was born in 1970. My dad and brothers got me into the Twilight Zone when I was about 5. Although I remember sneaking it when I was 4. Never heard about this until 2010. By this time my wife and daughter started watching Downton Abby. So when they watched that I watched One Step Beyond with my 2 older sons, they were 10 and 6. We loved Sunday nights watching these. Eventually our youngest son started watching too. Great shows with relative and interesting topics. Genuine entertainment. Fantastic storytelling and suspense at it best. We still watch these and never get bored. What a wonderful gift John Newland gave us all. Cheers from Minnesota.
Astounding story! I used to love the reruns of this show as a kid in the 60's. Seeing this in 2020 reminds me why. Fascinating that all of these episodes were based upon events that were documented as having taken place. John Newland the perfect host.
This story made me afraid to ever get in a boat again. Not even a canoe in a lake. No sea monster, weird event is going to get me! Some people are afraid to fly and I can understand that, although really plane crashes are VERY RARE, although they do sometimes happen. But think what it was like especially back in the 1500's , 1600 and 1700s. on a old creaky ship and even though they had sometimes an idea where they were going.. just think all that open sea or ocean.. depending on the wind to move you. Amazing really. Especially the 15 and 1600s when everything was so unknown. I saw a book written from the 1600s. it had illustrations from that time that showed ships far in the north during very icy waters. It showed one drawing of a ship that had wrecked into an iceberg , with another ship trying to rescue them. Ice everywhere. So brave to be that far north in the ice. Scary times. Even today there are scary things happen on the sea's. I think I will just watch and read about them :) This was an AMAZING story, and I believe it is true just as it was written.
Really can put your imagination into these kinds of old movies, rather than your eyes on the special effects, make-up, and costumes ✊🏿 💯 😁 Huge fan, I've Subscribed and gone on a binge watching spree!
Wonderful great to watch such great acting, stories, made you think .o how we miss these brilliant programs. Surely we can do the same today .I'm addicted this is my sort of entertainment. Well done for putting these on. Linda Bellamy UK
Love watching One- Step-Beyond when i was young. I few years ago, My brother bought me the entire series on DVD for my birthday. Can't get enough watching them.
@Jose Moreno: The 96 episodes on this channel are more complete and high quality than any DVD available. So I think you'll find some new episodes to enjoy . . .
These old TV series are the perfect example about to how to create a solid history focusing in every aspect about acting , suspense, drama without ANY SINGLE FX , many many actual directors could learn something .
I remember watching this along with my mother and my siblings back in the late fifties to early sixties and it always gave me the chills. I remember the show was sponsored by Alcoa.
I watched this show when I was younger. I watched with my mom. I have also watched it on other channels. I am glad to watch them again. I also watched the Twilight Zone. If I remember correctly I watched both when I was about 10. Love these kind of shows. I'd rather watch old television shows then the ones on now.
The writing and acting in this series is always *superb* and modern television cannot even come close to the quality. I threw away my TV in 2007 and there has never been a day since then when I missed having it. Thank you John Newland and Collier Young.
Thanks for making these available. My mom loved this series when I wuzza kid but I was too young to understand ... it's great to see them now. I guess Merwin Gerard, Collier Young and John Newland had a formula for genius between them. So many episodes are very touching .... the Navigator is one of my favorites.
Always loved nautical tales. This is a great tale and it goes into my love of nautical fiction which here the old axiom: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. This series is so far above today's TV offerings. Side note: the quality of these broadcasts is amazing. Better than the collection I have on DVD. Thank you for giving this to us to enjoy.
We had some good TV in the 1950s despite being black&white .
In many cases, being done in black & white actually enhanced the atmosphere of the show, especially with "The Twilight Zone," which seemed to greatly benefit from the noir-esque quality inherent to b&w film.
@jay chilichild @PinkOld @Richard DeRosset: siskelebert.org/?p=5693
@Richard DeRosset I agree , and sometimes I used Black & white 35mm film for old abandoned buildings out west and in Alaska .
They concentrated on the story not special effects.
jay chilichild I love black & white. When I grew up, there were no colours.
The days when TV was better than today and we only had 3 channels
And the tv only had 2 buttons sound and of on switch and contrast dark bright
Yup.
Agreed
And test pattern
Three channels plus PBS
Great stories don't need over-the-top special effects.
You are so very right.
A well written story with just right amount of pathos from actors makes whole lot of difference. Even today with GCI and digital effects, amazing sound effects and top notch actors, if writing is flat or makes no sense, the production is a waste of film.
Man the amount of action and excitement they could put into a half hour back then, far outshines the trash they try in 90 minutes today. Back then, we had imagination to fill in gaps, and no need for ultra gore being displayed.
Good stuff
Thanks for the memories ❤️ I can't resist watching these old shows, no matter what time of day it is. Anything to keep my mind off the current events. And what a mess this world is becoming politically.
Holy cow !!! This series is beyond phenomenal. I stumbled across an episode starring Christopher Lee and was utterly blown away by his astounding performance. Something about this series seems to bring out the very finest in the actors. Super high praise for this series.
Can you kindly send me the exact link.
I can’t seem to find it on the channel.
czcams.com/video/VJv8WbUBaNo/video.htmlsi=_RZ-c0LFauP9vXd5
@@one-step-beyond-1959 Grateful beyond measure 🙏
Ah, TV with morals. I've missed you.
Now is a cesspool
Now something not of this world has taken over 😢
Absolutely brilliant series! Such a find! Thanks to whoever put these up. The stories and acting are superb. Amazing that these were all true stories. Much better than most stuff on TV now!😊
Well they're based on real events but they sometimes stretch or fudge the facts.
@@myvws2 They didn’t stretch it for “The Vision.” It haunts me to this day.
I miss intelligent television.
You miss intelligent television? That is because they had experienced and experimented screenwriters touching on all themes then present.
Later,as television matured,came all the shows with moral lessons like Paladin, Gunsmoke, etc..
Today,kids see some TV with idiotic sitcoms,reality TV and other stupid shows that are mindless. There's no school like new school reviewing old school.
How about Dick Wolf's Co. covering issues today like: Chicago P.D. and Law & Order SVU?
I'd suggest PBS if that's what you're missing.
Make that ALMOST intelligent TV....to get to the survivors the ship would have needed to go NNE, not W b NW as shown on the board....but still better than some of the crud shown now.
I'm in England 🇬🇧 just found these watching 👀 them all this is my favourite episode 👍
Sometimes you just wanna watch a good ol' "story".
so true, far better than what's on TV today
Why I watch foreign films. They still get it.
Not sometimes but all the time
One Step Beyond one of the greatest shows ever to hit the airwaves
Nowadays we don´t have shows of this quality! It´s really sad!
Only now do we realize how lucky we were to have shows like this when we were Young and not that bullshit they show today kids don't have to use their minds for ANYTHING!!!!
Rupert May, boy you said it! I thank God I was born in the 50s with memories of "the good ol days"... And they really were. Respect, patriotism, prayer in schools, using our brains to do research in real books, etc. Sure, every era has its negatives, but I say high technology is going to be the serious dwindling/shrinking of the human brain... Just look around, this generation of youngsters. Scares the living crap outta me! New World Order is on the horizon, and dumb-downs are welcoming it.....
(Shivers)
Well, its in Revelations... So Im not too surprised; only by the quick advancing of it in my lifetime... In the blink of an eye its growing.. But, just maybe we're behind the times, in the eyes of aliens, walking amongst us.
Just a little food for thought....?
Yes. Very few, if any social manipulation. The cry baby woke crowd would have butchered this series, to the point of nauseating anyone watching it,
These days children at schools don't add numbers in their heads.
My favorite episode, A++ Acting.
I love the way people used to dress in the olden times, evry body so proper.
No sweat pants or pajama bottoms in public for them ....
I love it, too!
Tradition has its place
This was one of the TV series that I enjoyed watching back in the early 60s; along with Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Science Fiction Theater, etc.
Wish we have a time machine-the good olde days -Thank-you Mr John Newland, the 50s 60s-One step beyond are still great to watch-2021-, hollywood dont make good shows any-more,sadly tHANKS again-Greetings from England
Try reading my friend.
Your imagination has to make up for the lack of special effects.
Even more so than this excellent sound stage production.
@@jstravelers4094 Your reply does not make any sense my friend.
I’ve always enjoyed the haunting theme score for this series...
I'm in Ireland just found these this is my favourite episode off them all and the rest are amazing 👏 thats how good this episode is 👌
This was a killer episode. The soundstage was far from the usual four walls and furniture. Looked convincing enough. Well acted and written. It covers a lot of ground in its half hour format. That end theme was the soundtrack of my nightmares..
@Ivor Presents: This episode is getting a lot of views lately. CZcams must be promoting it. I'm getting a better appreciation of it from comments . . .
@@one-step-beyond-1959 It was a terrific plot because it covered the classic ghost story angle and added in the psychological factor of the effects of aging on a person's competence OR on other peoples' perception of his competence. Thanks so much for sharing this one.
60 years old , worked in television production for almost 40 yrs. I have never seen or was even aware of this series and I can't thank you enough for posting these classics.
@michaelanthony perez: Glad you found this channel. I only discovered OSB myself 3 years ago -- and had never heard of it before. I've speculated elsewhere about why it's been comparatively unknown . . .
A gem of TV! We do not have series of that Quality today!
@Lady Jupiter Well, people here maybe don't realize how much it's meant to me to have them share these kinds of reminiscences. I'm grateful for it -- thanks . . .
I loved this show as a kid. I'm surprised it wasn't more widely known. On par with twilight zone and outer limits.
That was a great one👍Tall ship, fog and rough seas, handsome guys who could act, and no CGI. Loved it
Thank you so much for uploading these episodes. One Step Beyond is one of my favorite anthologies, next to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
I saw this when it was first run on TV. Shows you how old I am! But it’s the one episode I remember vividly after all these years. Gave me goose bumps then, and still does today.
Content, atmosphere, quality acting. A thing of the past for TV.
@Tom G: My opinion is that the B&W 35mm cinematography contributes to that a lot more than people think.
Yes, I would agree with that very much. Its evident in films in the 1950s and early 60s, that were shot in B&W versus those that werent. I think for example the impact of Psycho, by Hitchcock, had an atmosphere unobtainable in colour. Same would go for the 'Jazz-noire' films of the 50s too.
My husband was in the merchant marine for thirty years and well acquainted with 'scary sea tales"..For anyone who also loves these stories, look up William Hope Hodgson, a former cabin boy and seafarer. Hodgson wrote riveting, eerie tales of mysteries at sea. They are still in print...Enjoy, and shiver your timbers!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson
Its actually Sliver me timbers. Sailors would take their cutlasses and hack into the masts so pirates couldn't swing from rigging to rigging and slide down like a fireman sliding down a pole in a fire house.
@@burninglass thank you. That expression never made any sense to me. I thought it was about shivering but the timber part had me stumped.
It refers to the effects of a collision, which suddenly stops the forward momentum of the ship and "shivers" (shakes) her timbers (rib structure). If a person sees something horrible or recalls/anticipates a dread incident, his body shakes in similar fashion. The phrase can be generalized to refer to the speaker's recalling, or anticipating, something momentous. Used as a means of emphasis in speech. "Shiver me timbers, but that's the foulest weather I ever seen."
@@50zcarsman I think that makes more sense. A cutlass would not do much damage to a mast but if you damaged it then you could not sail.
I’m a 80’s baby and I love this ,great content 👌🏽❤️
Glad someone is putting these old shows on. Ah! The good old days of decent entertainment.
Great acting. I haven't gone to a movie or watched TV in years. It has no meaning or value anymore. But, this, and shows like it are not wasted time. Anyway, the story was great. The meaning was heroic. The navigator had one intention, to save his mates, and that intention was fired even after death. Pretty amazing concept. I believe that that kind of dedication exists for the living and the dead. Just people who care more for others than themselves. Beautiful story.
I read of a similar incident, in WW2. A merchant ship was sunk, and several survivors, including the badly injured navigator escaped in a lifeboat.
On the bridge of a ship some hours away, a man suddenly appeared reciting a set of numbers. Recognizing it it as a lat/long position, the ship changed course.
Eventually the ship came across the lifeboat, and rescued the survivors. The navigator, who had been delirious and mumbling for hours, died shortly before rescue.
The crew of the rescuing ship were amazed to recognize the navigator as the man who suddenly appeared on their bridge, giving the position of his shipmates.
Steven Weaver Wow!
The difference between the story your relating and the this one is the navigator in your story must have given the position of the ship in minutes and seconds which would have been the only certain way of locating the sunken ship. In this story however steering a course of west by north west would have been just to inexact to have found these survivors. I'm no expert were navigation is concerned but i would say that by steering a course that vague the sunken ship could have gone down anywhere within thousand mile if not a lot more of this ships heading not that a ship of this period would have been on course this inexact in the first place by this time all ships were using minutes and seconds to show their exact position
dang
@@johnlewis9158 I think they just simplified it for the sake of the non seafaring TV audience. They would more than likely know compass directions, but most would not understand latitude and longitude locations.
One Step Beyond is supposedly based on true stories.
This is why I loved those mystery comic books as a kid. The stories always had a fun supernatural element to them.
Very creepy, but my grandfather who was a sailor out of Newfoundland 100 years ago would probably not think of this is something impossible. Men who sailed the ocean for weeks saw some pretty strange and inexplicable things in there travels.
As was my gramp from Twillingate who would have thought the same.
Got that right
Bringing me back to 15 years old. Thanks, James
@James Atkinson: That's one of the ideas behind this channel . . .
So much intensity, conflict, and drama packed in 25 minutes. It couldn't have been done any better..a masterpiece for the series. With a nod to the actor playing the captain..stands out particularly.
Yes, it's one of the more tightly written episodes. That's probably in part because it was actually a refinement of a previous episode: czcams.com/video/LYzjQcBM0Ys/video.html
I thought the captain was pretty distinctive too. The actor was only 35 when he played him. He did a very credible job.
Anyone know who the Captain is? He looks so familiar! 🤔
@@celestialskye1 His name is Robert Ellenstein. He was in a stack of TV and movies from the 1950s to the '90s but usually in supporting roles. Seems odd that he rarely got a top billing but always kept busy, in theatre if not on screen.
I believe it there is another power Beyond us thank you for sharing the video 👍🇺🇸
Incredible sets. And the old wooden boat sounds realistic.
I can't believe that only 2000 people know about this superb channel on CZcams. Thank you for these wonderful classics!
Thanks. The channel is doing okay -- nearly 700,000 total views at this time . . .
Quite a jump in a year, now at 16,000 subs.
Not fake tv like todays shows
Well, I think that's because most of us are dead.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy “ Hamlet
@Chalmer Basham: Shakespeare has that knack of always expressing things in the most effective way, doesn't he (?)
One-Step-Beyond : Yes, and in comedy, tragedy, historical, supernatural etc. forms.
@Chalmer Basham: They say . . . that the current HS generation may be the very last to read and appreciate Shakespeare as a matter of course (like happened with Chaucer). Count me grateful to have been born when I was . . .
good episode. great actors. I like the Captain. So believable is the acting, it makes it seem so realistic.
I was addicted to this show as a kid. So glad I can watch them again. I always thought this series was much better than the better known "Twilight Zone" and John Newland much more interesting than Rod Serling.
Rod Serling was a legend, a veteran of ww2 which is fairly obvious from many of the twilight zone episodes. He was a paratrooper who wanted to fight against Hitler but was sent to the pacific. He saw combat in the battle of Leyte receiving two wounds. And was part of the unit that took Manila, which had minimal resistance until reaching the city where block by block fighting occurred, his regiment had a 50% casualty rate, and he was eventually wounded by shrapnel that killed three of his comrades. He was also part of the occupation force in Japan. He received a Purple Heart, a bronze star, and the Philippine liberation medal. While in the pacific, a friend of his was preforming a comedic monologue for the platoon, as this was happening a plane dropped a food crate which decapitated him, his name was Melvin Levy. These experiences influenced Serling, his work, his politics, and as a person, being pretty progressive especially for the time on race, war, censorship, and he clashed with studios over them. Serling was an incredible person, very interesting, I would suggest anyone look into and learn about him. I don’t blame anyone for liking One Step Beyond more than the Twilight Zone, I prefer the Twilight Zone myself but both were phenomenal, and there were other great shows that were similar and just as good, like The Outer Limits.. Tales Of Tomorrow was another but was earlier by a few years if I’m not mistaken.
Unlike the Twilight Zone these shows were based on real stories. Whether the facts were the way the program portrayed them is a different matter. I looked up one story and it was not exactly the way the program portrayed but which one is actually correct who knows!
I'm very much enjoying watching these One Step Beyond episodes. Good stories, well told, and there's something special about John Newland's commentary (and directing). I was a little too young to understand these when they originally aired and re-run in the early 60's. Thank you for making them available.
Glad you found this channel . . .
This was dope
Thanks for sharing these awesome episodes of such a classic brilliant show. Had a great time watching this 👍👍👍👌🏼😉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌🏼
Wow I really loved this show growing up in the sixties. They always had wonderful stories. We could sure use some that now!
Anthologies like this and The Twilight Zone along with Outer Limits and to a certain extent Night Gallery were written by people who knew what the television audience wanted.
@Alba Productions: It's a generational thing, for sure: writers, directors, actors . . . who grew up in the 1920s and 1930s.
the shows my step-mother wouldn't let me watch. thank god for sleep-overs at my friends... lol
Alba the reason why this show was so great is because they were all true
You forgot to mention Thriller. That show's adaptation of The Pigeons From Hell scarred me for life. All it tskes is my fladhlight battery to dim out outside in the dark or down in the basement and I break into a sweat.
I feel like the only young person to watch these classic series.
Hoa N. Pham: Yes, these series seem to raise multiple issue for younger people. I know one Woman who refused to watch ANYTHING at all in B&W . . .
Perfect day to indulge in old black n white movies..its raining out .its awesome.
Thank you so very much for making these available . They provide major comfort at night and is always a joy to view with my mother when I pay her a visit. I love the fact that all these stories are first hand accounts and I’ve never seen an episode that disappoints.
Glad you found this channel . . .
What I like the best about this particular episode is I never saw it coming, the ending that is. BRAVO
That eerie music at the end, classic.
This one is great, black and white gives it that extra bit of amazing.
I was born in 1970. My dad and brothers got me into the Twilight Zone when I was about 5. Although I remember sneaking it when I was 4.
Never heard about this until 2010. By this time my wife and daughter started watching Downton Abby. So when they watched that I watched One Step Beyond with my 2 older sons, they were 10 and 6. We loved Sunday nights watching these. Eventually our youngest son started watching too.
Great shows with relative and interesting topics. Genuine entertainment. Fantastic storytelling and suspense at it best.
We still watch these and never get bored. What a wonderful gift John Newland gave us all.
Cheers from Minnesota.
Astounding story! I used to love the reruns of this show as a kid in the 60's. Seeing this in 2020 reminds me why. Fascinating that all of these episodes were based upon events that were documented as having taken place. John Newland the perfect host.
@Phineas J Whoopie: Newland is just great . . .
August 2021 here. I'm loving this.
This story made me afraid to ever get in a boat again. Not even a canoe in a lake. No sea monster, weird event is going to get me! Some people are afraid to fly and I can understand that, although really plane crashes are VERY RARE, although they do sometimes happen. But think what it was like especially back in the 1500's , 1600 and 1700s. on a old creaky ship and even though they had sometimes an idea where they were going.. just think all that open sea or ocean.. depending on the wind to move you. Amazing really. Especially the 15 and 1600s when everything was so unknown. I saw a book written from the 1600s. it had illustrations from that time that showed ships far in the north during very icy waters. It showed one drawing of a ship that had wrecked into an iceberg , with another ship trying to rescue them. Ice everywhere. So brave to be that far north in the ice. Scary times. Even today there are scary things happen on the sea's. I think I will just watch and read about them :) This was an AMAZING story, and I believe it is true just as it was written.
Top acting by Don Dubbins, ahead of his time.
I recognized Dubbins as well. The Private in "The D.I." who "killed a poor innocent sand flea."
Really can put your imagination into these kinds of old movies, rather than your eyes on the special effects, make-up, and costumes ✊🏿 💯 😁 Huge fan, I've Subscribed and gone on a binge watching spree!
Me too, I just can't stop.
Wowee, this one is high def, and excellent acting as well.
I LOVE ONNE STEP BEYOND I CAN WATCH IT ALL DAY
Send shivers down MY spine when the same man appeared twice and i even started to suspect this WAS gonna happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such excellent production values; a lesson for the present and future producers....
Wonderful great to watch such great acting, stories, made you think .o how we miss these brilliant programs. Surely we can do the same today .I'm addicted this is my sort of entertainment. Well done for putting these on. Linda Bellamy UK
Love watching this series 🥰 it makes you rethink about things that happen in out lives 😁
When we watched TV in those days. It was worth watching.
Exactly what I enjoy watching.
Thank you.
Love watching One- Step-Beyond when i was young. I few years ago, My brother bought me the entire series on DVD for my birthday. Can't get enough watching them.
@Jose Moreno: The 96 episodes on this channel are more complete and
high quality than any DVD available. So I think you'll find some new episodes to enjoy . . .
@@one-step-beyond-1959 Thank you, I'll keep watching out for them.
Good story. And so well done considering it was all in a studio and a water tank.
These old TV series are the perfect example about to how to create a solid history focusing in every aspect about acting , suspense, drama without ANY SINGLE FX , many many actual directors could learn something .
Yes, it's actually old school 1950s New York television drama . . . even though it was produced in California.
I remember watching this along with my mother and my siblings back in the late fifties to early sixties and it always gave me the chills. I remember the show was sponsored by Alcoa.
@jan williams: Yes, here it is: czcams.com/video/7kWGHAKPQvE/video.html
Me to 3 channels we have cake some ice cream it was an event I was 13 in 59 it all seems so real dam
Many years ago, my mother once met John Newland. He assured her the series was genuine, stories were based on actual incidents and records.
I also vaguely remember a show when I was a kid called the Alcoa Hour.
Aluminum Company of America - Alcoa- corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA
This is probably one of the best One Step Beyond episodes.
@R Cobb: Generally agreed: a top ten episode . . .
This is the best one yet!
I believe it's possible
This is the first time I have seen this episode. Produced so well as all OSB episodes. Television at its best.
Good actors, well written dialog, rich and full use of the English language. Shakespeare knew a winning combination when he saw it.
So glad i discovered this program....
I watched this show when I was younger. I watched with my mom. I have also watched it on other channels. I am glad to watch them again. I also watched the Twilight Zone. If I remember correctly I watched both when I was about 10. Love these kind of shows. I'd rather watch old television shows then the ones on now.
Great story, they don't have plots like that on shows anymore. One of this show's best episodes.
Sometimes some unexplained and creepy things happen at sea.
Yes they most certainly do but I don't believe all Seagulls are reincarnated drowned sailors !
I've been enjoying these more than I expected. Great change of pace from the modern nonsense.
It's like I'm watching the lighthouse all over again!!!!
Wonderful!!
Brilliant. I've seen this before and it's still excellent. Love the captain. Great character.
I used to watch these in my young years
An unusually tense script; fine, taut direction and some very creditable acting.
What a great episode.
They don't make shows like this anymore! Thanks for putting
The show was superb, but this is one of the best episodes ever. Thanks.
When I was a kid in the 50's my sisters and I were so mesmerized by these series. Well done!
thank you for bringing the classic back
The writing and acting in this series is always *superb* and modern television cannot even come close to the quality. I threw away my TV in 2007 and there has never been a day since then when I missed having it. Thank you John Newland and Collier Young.
Thanks for making these available. My mom loved this series when I wuzza kid but I was too young to understand ... it's great to see them now. I guess Merwin Gerard, Collier Young and John Newland had a formula for genius between them. So many episodes are very touching .... the Navigator is one of my favorites.
@Calvin Hobbes: Glad you found this channel . . .
Love watching this TV show when i was young . I got the DVD set at home. Still watched them today.
I love the old series. And what a great narrator too.
I've read many true stories of sea misteries and I believed their truth.
Great episode. They sure put a lot of time and effort in these within a time frame. Now we today can watch them all.
Never realized what a great show this was❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Always enjoyed One Step Beyond !
Sunday Binging, shear delight!! I'm almost 60 so I grew up watching these shows 😍
That was an amazing episode I've only found out about this show I'm hooked on them 👌
@Stewart Johnson: If you want to cut to the chase, here are the best episodes: czcams.com/play/PLR9KUynF_6Fp6PTXByWUI85hr5OOSesyL.html
Great story, the Sea is a mysterious place.
Always loved nautical tales. This is a great tale and it goes into my love of nautical fiction which here the old axiom: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. This series is so far above today's TV offerings.
Side note: the quality of these broadcasts is amazing. Better than the collection I have on DVD. Thank you for giving this to us to enjoy.
This one is my favorite . my bedtime story
I also rate it as one of the top ten best: czcams.com/video/IwBSsLcsCJs/video.html
Probably my favourite so far! Very well acted and the characters were interesting.
I've been hearing stories like this, from actual witnesses, all my life. And I'm pretty close to 70 years old!
"There are more wonders........."
The black and white tv gave it that Film Noir flavor that I love.
@Nikki Sokol: Yes. Just for fun (so to speak) . . . it's interesting to consider: do you feel film noir in any specific part of your body (?)