When I was a kid, I worked part time in a tv repair shop. I built my own tv and had it in my bedroom. At night I would watch One Step Beyond, Outer Limits and Sci Fi Theater. Great times in black and white.
I thunk that was a a,in,of the tongue! The writer probably meant to say “mail” - maybe autocorrect made a change, don’t know but Im sure it wasn’t meant as a fun thing for two people to comment about!
@@sandybruce9092 A-I voiceover. Doesn't know about regular US Mail, which was the primary message medium at the time. Telephone and Telegram also operated then. Autocorrect is strongly suspected. I knew as much. I was just being *clever* as that show tried to pitch itself as being all about the paranormal. Just as I knew you meant to say: ''I *think* that was a *slip* of the tongue...'' Have a nice day. But it was a fun thing to comment about anyway.
After all these years that theme music to `One Step Beyond' still does send shivers up the spine. That music and the theme music to `Peter Gunn' were the best of that era.
@@jeffkarrow6924 I believe so. Looking back the "golden age" of television was that way because so many artists , writers, and music composers from Hollywood and Broadway got involved in the new television medium. It was also the training ground for a generation of new actor celebrities.
@George Williams Thanks, I knew that there was a connection between the theme music of those programs , though I think the original music for `The Outer Limits' better suited that show.
Yes, my whole being responds to that music - takes me back to hearing my mother's voice updating us around the kitchen table before school about the previous night's show. And, remembering watching a few, if I was lucky to stay up, so much in that music. Agree about Peter Gunn also. Thanks for commenting.
Like the original Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond will remain a eternal classic. They did everything right and the scripts, casting and directing were all brilliant and genial. Almost not to be found today’s paranormal/Sci Fi except the short films of …DUST…are a candle of bright hope.
One Step Beyond; Outer Limits; Twilight Zone; Man In Space; Rocky Jones Space Ranger; The Man And The Challenge; World of Giants; these were the shows that would keep me glued to the 19 inch Philco for hours and hours.
@George Williams One of my favorite shows. I remember a particular episode where the hero took a drug that sped up his reactions so much, everything else seemed in slow motion to him. He was investigating a criminal who targeted motorcycle cops.
I didn't know that the host John Newland was also the director of all the episodes. I remember thinking that he talked like the most educated guy in the world, using phraseology like "an hallucination." LOL. I also remember the theme music scaring the bejabbers out of me.
@@bhartley868 Are you by any chance referring to the current vaccine controversy, because "bejabbers" reminds you of people being "JABBED" with a hypodermic needle?
I was eleven in 1959. When my parents watched this show (around 11:30 PM, I think it was), I hoped to fall asleep before I heard the music, as it scared me. I remember the one about the girl who couldn’t help setting fire to things just by getting angry (I think). That episode scared me the most.
I took that "one step beyond" while stationed in Germany. I "saw sounds and heard colors". There is another reality running parallel to what we normally perceive. I felt as (2) separate entities - (1) physical (1) mental. The experience was so profound for me that to this day I am so glad for the "trip" but would never want to do it again.
Me too! I remember it came on at 11:00. I kept telling myself: “Don’t watch it or you won’t be able to sleep… Don’t watch it… don’t watch it.” Of course I watched it and was up most of the night.
I actually appreciate how far the One Step Beyond team was willing of showing the magic mushrooms as part of their story. I'm sure María Sabina would be proud.
My wife gave me a dvd compilation of episodes of One Step Beyond, I had never heard of it before but she knows I'm a big fan of TZ. It's an amazing show, I hope to find seasons 2 and 3.
i always thought John Newland was British, he was born in Ohio. i remember this show as a kid (i was born in 58), back then shows were more intellectual than they are today and "One Step Beyond" was proof of that. sure their were stupid shows but compared to today back then was like the Renaissance of TV. today "ALL" the shows are stupid, the nuns use to call TV "the idiot box" looking at it today, they were right
In Virginia Satir's family therapy model, communication styles are blamer, placator, distractot, computer, and leveler. There are levelers, just not enough.
I loved OSB better than most of the Twilight Zone episodes, my favorite of that show being "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". But like you I thought Newland was British or Aussie. In fact, if you listen closely, I wonder if Newland didn't try that effect on purpose. In some episodes, he says it's "a matter of human record". Then in other later episodes, he said it's "a matter of human REcord", like splitting the word into two words RE then cord, soft E . Check it out.
Al Gore never claimed to invent the internet, that was a disgusting Republican lie. Gore made the absolutely honest statement that, as a Senator, he sponsored legislation that helped to promote the internet, as even scum vomit Rush Limbaugh had to admit was true. Swinish Republican shit.
@@paulkellar6222 My goodness - both parties are guilty of lies. Looks like the division the mainstream media is going after worked very well on you with plenty of hatred thrown in for good measure. As Americans, we had better start thinking of unity instead of division, or we won't have a country left. Don't play into their programming.
@@Galen-864 While it's true virtually all human beings lie, the sheer volume and mendacity of Republican party lies during the Bush administration were incredible . Additionally, you implied that Gore lied, which was a falsehood, so I don't need moral instruction from you.
In the mid 70's when I was a teenager this show was on at like 3:00 am lol right before "5 minutes to live by" and the signoff with the national anthem...Yeah that was before 24 hour programming lol
I think I remember it was 2 am when tv went off the air. The Star Spangled Banner and then test screen(?) Or was it Star Spangled Banner at 6 am when broadcast resumed(?) Both(?)
Another weird TV series from 1959 was "World of Giants" about a scientist who has been shrunk to only 6 inches tall and is carried around from mission to mission by his partner. The scientist's small size enabled him to accomplish unique outcomes that would otherwise have been impossible. This series only lasted 13 episodes but it was compelling. So far, for years only a few episodes have been available on RUclips. Where are the rest?
One Step Beyond is one of those amazing shows from the 50's and 60's that had that special quality that makes people want to keep watching even after all these years.
@jonnyq680 Agreed. The Twilight Zone One Step Beyond The Outer Limits Star Trek. Each one of these Sci-Fi shows from back then has such awesome stories, and the look of each show has that iconic scenery that never gets old.
@@20th_century_Ghost The box sets of 60-year-old ST TOS and TOL hold up incredibly well. I'm hoping Santa will bring a box set of TTZ this year... OSB is very good, but you gotta include Thriller. Boris K. was the perfect host!
I was 6 when the first episode aired. Just a few notes of the theme music brings it back. It brought a sense of wonder about the world, of the possibility of things that we cannot explain. Hearing the theme again still brings that feeling and that's a good thing.
I recall One Step Beyond from the 1960s when I was ten years old, that was a great TV series that left you thinking, later in highschool at Belmont Highschool in Los Angeles around 1970, one of my classmates had an experience with a teenager girl that he gave a ride on his way through a short cut on Mugallon Drive, he got her home and the following day we went to visit her, he.found out that she had been kill right where he picked her up.
@@RerunZone Also another friend that I knew back in 2009 when I had just gotten back from Afghanistan dealing with a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, told me about how she got a good scare one night when she got into her as SUV and as she was about to turn the SUV on in the rearview mirror she saw a young men in the back seat that was bleeding badly from his face and head dressed in a suit with big lapels a white shirt and tie. I knew right away that she was describing a 1940s Zoot Suit, because that area where she was at is where the WWII Zoot Suit beatings happened, when the would bring in service members to bust the heads of the Mexican teens that wore Zoot Suits. When she turned around to see there was no one there.
That sounds almost like that old urban legend about a couple riding in their car at night, when they pass by the local cemetery. Suddenly, they see a teenaged girl standing near the road, as if she were hitchhiking. The husband and wife stop the car alongside the girl, who asks if they could give her a lift home, which they do. But, when they arrive at the address the girl told them was her home, and the couple tell the man who lives there that his daughter is in their car, the man says that he has no daughter! When the now baffled couple return to the car, they find that the girl has disappeared, but a scarf she was wearing is still on the backseat of the car. They take the scarf and show it to the man who was supposedly the girl's father, who becomes staggered at the sight of it. He finally explains that the only daughter he ever had was killed in an automobile accident several years before, and that her body was buried in the same cemetery near where the couple first encountered the mysterious girl! Her father adds that the scarf that the husband and wife found in their car belonged to his dead daughter. The father then shows them a photo of his daughter. The girl in the picture looks exactly like the young lady that they had picked up near the cemetery that very night! Did they give a ride to a GHOST? 👻 What do you think? 🤔😬😱
we used to really like the show and the episode i remember from back then was about a man who disappeared in a glider plane and reappeared years later as a skeleton flying the the plane. it really scared me along with the music from the show.
One Step Beyond was shows that were based on unexplained actual events. You know, like someone being trapped in a collapsed cave and a loved one has a premonition on where to find that person. I loved this show. Some were stupid, but most of them were very interesting. Lot of ghost stories!
The episodes have been ending up on OTA TV stations from time to time. It is fascinating to see actors who had their big break on that show becoming well-known and quite popular down the road. You can see a number of them in this little introduction here.
Classic Reruns TV airs it daily in my area late afternoon. Only problem is the digital channel is hit or miss...sometimes it's fine, other times it goes into a freeze frame..sometimes for an hour. The same channel has Science Fiction Theater Saturday evenings.
I don't believe in the supernatural either. However, I believe things happen that are waaaaay beyond our understanding and would look supernatural through the lens all our limited knowledge and understanding.
At 2:35 the narrator states that the director would receive emails accusing him of being the anti-Christ. Email did not exist when this program was on television, and did not appear until almost thirty years later. You can tell what generation the narrator belongs to from this erroneous comment.
This is the second video I have caught and just like the first absolutely enjoyed it. Found it very interesting and I would definitely love to check out the series. Thank you so much for posting. Everyone take care, take it easy and be safe
Having never heard of the show before, I bought a DVD collection once, and wouldn't have known if it was complete or not. Checking the episodes, then seeing the episode count on each disk, I only have fifty episodes, and no, I don't have the mushroom episode.
@@lastrada52 yea, I had to do some listing and figuring and omitting titles then redoing it the other way around to see what episodes I had and didn't have, so I now know what episodes to look for that I haven't seen. This is one phenomenally heavy show.
I wish CBS would release season 2 and 3 on video. The versions out there are from scratchy old prints. Their season ONE looks and sounds great. Don't they know there is a ready made audience for this?
I can state with 100% confidence that the creator of "One Step Beyond" was most assuredly *not* receiving angry e-mails when the stories aired. It came out in the 1960s, fer Chrissakes!
Insomnia led to watching late-night TV, and there I saw two episodes of this show. I was astonished by the quality of it, especially by the acting of the major characters.
I bought season 1 out of the bargain bin at Walmart. I just found seasons 2 and 3 on eBay that are "Digitally remastered". However, some reviews complained of the poor image quality and out of sync audio. If anyone knows differently, please respond. Season 1 was fantastic.
Hey wait! New land DID show ESP powers when he ate the mushrooms! Blindfolded, he put his hand on the photo of a big waterfall. He said "I feel power".I remember see that episode when I was a child.I'm 70 now. I don't know why you say the experiment was a flop.
One episode involved soldiers during WW1 stopping fighting when both sides saw a vision in the sky. I researched the day quoted - then had an idea. Further research showed that there was a bright aurora that very night visible over the whole of Europe. One mystery solved!
That episode was based on an actual event that occurred around Christmas time when both sides quite fighting and shared a Christmas Eve celebration exchanging trinkets, signing carols and sharing food/drink.
The full episode is on RUclips! - ▶ "One Step Beyond": The Sacred Mushroom. (Best 5 Episode) They have an entire episode about Magic Mushrooms, remote viewing, how they are used in mexico, and then the host takes mushrooms and proves how they improve his ability to see through objects.. like not just a little bit. He went from getting scores of 0, to over half of guesses correct. This show was way ahead of its time. They hid that episode for over 30 years. Its up on youtube now!
I used to watch it whenever I could get away with it (I was 11 when it premiered). One that always got to me was called The Burning Girl and dealt with Spontaneous Human Combustion in a way. 😱
I've only just started watching episodes of this series. One episode was definitely the inspiration for Carrie (I can't remember the name of the episode.) Anyway this is a great video with some interesting facts. Good stuff.
Good video, on a series that deserves more attention. Newland was not only an excellent ---and even mesmerizing---host, but did something that seems, to my knowledge, to be unique in television history, but directing every single episode. It certainly was HIS show! If I'm not mistaken, I believe that in the final season----or at least part of it---Newland moved his efforts to England and created episodes with even more substantial production values than the prior 2 seasons, which certainly didn't slack in the department.
Newland also directed a Night Gallery episode for Rod Serling. The difference between One Step Beyond & Twilight Zone (fiction) is that many of the One Step Beyond episodes are based on what is presumed to be true. Personally, the creepiest episode(s) I ever saw: the one about the Titanic, the young girl hitchhiking on a rainy road trying to come home. The surgery by the first-aid medic aboard a ship during the war -- saved the life of the Captain only to find out the surgeon on another ship that guided him by radio through the surgery was actually dead hours before. This was a great original series. Though Newland was quite stiff like Jack Webb, he was actually an incredibly creative director, producer & actor (once nominated for an Emmy in 1953).
@@lastrada52 Interesting selection of favorites. I only have a different viewpoint on one thing: I found Newland a very relaxed and comfortable guide/host through this series. He was an actor and very used to being in front of the camera. The host who seemed to be stiff was Rod Serling who did not feel or look comfortable in front of a camera, and also disliked the idea of having to be in front of one for the series, effective as he was. Webb was indeed a real stiff: It seemed this was the way he behaved in real life, according to an actor friend I knew who worked with Webb on both versions of DRAGNET.
@@RSEFX - Oh, I agree with you that Newland was also relaxed & comfortable, no doubt. It's just that his delivery, maybe his vocal intonation, seemed a little unnatural as far as a normal speaking voice. Lots of doom & gloom when he should've just introduced things a little more loose. Alfred Hitchcock on his show for instance & Boris Karloff on Thriller were more light-hearted considering the subject of their programs.
I remember this episode the most. The last time that I saw it, I was a 16 year old, living near cow pastures in central Florida. I had already delved into mushrooms. It was fascinating to watch old straight laced looking people doing what us wannabe hippie kids were doing. 🤔😂
Good video, but the paranormal and supernatural are part of the fantasy genre. What Rod Serling must've said is that he planned to do only fiction, whereas Newland's goal was to do recreations of actual events, even though that goal wasn't entirely achieved.
Thanks for the insights. The show definitely was ahead of it's time. I love the scene in "The Sacred Mushroom" where John has taken the mushrooms and the researcher starts flashing a strobe light at him - the makings of mellow trip - NOT.
OK, so a show about a Shamanic Journey with magic mushrooms became One Step Beyond's most popular episode in 1961! Talk about being ahead of your time!
I liked the episode where the man had a dream of a plane hitting his house. He had actually seen the numbers on the plane. It later happened in real life; all the way down to the numbers on the plane.
There was also a rare sequel "The Next Step Beyond". As for the mushroom episode it is true. The researcher was R. Wasson and the shaman was a actually a woman name Maria Sabina.
The spookiest episode to me was the one where Robert Blake played an escaped prisoner. His partner unknowingly to Blake was killed during the escape but his ghost convinced Blake to turn himself in.
In the summer of 1973,I was living i Port Huron,Mi.A station in Detroit.I immediately became a fan.Later a station in Houston carried it.I began watching again.I hope some nostalgia channel would pick it up
The theory about mushrooms was not false then or now. Not popular, but not false. Think back to Viking Berserkers. Archeology has found them and discovered the potion they used was mushrooms and herbs. So, Shrooms has been a thing for centuries.
The fact is the "sacred mushroom" is the psilocybin mushroom. drug abusers use this to get high, but it is also a treatment for depression that works better than some anti-depressant pills.
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When I was a kid, I worked part time in a tv repair shop. I built my own tv and had it in my bedroom. At night I would watch One Step Beyond, Outer Limits and Sci Fi Theater. Great times in black and white.
Love these shows too👍
Good memory!
Those were great shows for me too!
I used to toy around with a cyclotron I made in kindergarten.
Loved all these shows, The Twilight Zone and Thriller with Boris Karloff.
2:40 I don't think he was receiving "emails". In the old days we called those "letters".
Remember, he was "One step beyond."
@@LesterMoore Haha!
Newland died in 2000. Emails are a possibility.
@@jimbobago He was talking about when the show was new. No emails then.
Maybe they mean mails.
Wait. Newland said he was getting threatening emails [2:43] in 1959? That truly was a show ahead of its time.
😄😆🤣
Supernatural
I thunk that was a a,in,of the tongue! The writer probably meant to say “mail” - maybe autocorrect made a change, don’t know but Im sure it wasn’t meant as a fun thing for two people to comment about!
@@sandybruce9092 A-I voiceover. Doesn't know about regular US Mail, which was the primary message medium at the time. Telephone and Telegram also operated then. Autocorrect is strongly suspected. I knew as much. I was just being *clever* as that show tried to pitch itself as being all about the paranormal.
Just as I knew you meant to say: ''I *think* that was a *slip* of the tongue...''
Have a nice day. But it was a fun thing to comment about anyway.
I'm sure Newland said mail! The narrator is definitely from the e-mail eras! LOL
After all these years that theme music to `One Step Beyond' still does send shivers up the spine. That music and the theme music to `Peter Gunn' were the best of that era.
Didn't Henry Mancini write the music for Peter Gunn? (One of my favorite shows)
@@jeffkarrow6924 I believe so. Looking back the "golden age" of television was that way because so many artists , writers, and music composers from Hollywood and Broadway got involved in the new television medium. It was also the training ground for a generation of new actor celebrities.
@George Williams Thanks, I knew that there was a connection between the theme music of those programs , though I think the original music for `The Outer Limits' better suited that show.
Yes, my whole being responds to that music - takes me back to hearing my mother's voice updating us around the kitchen table before school about the previous night's show. And, remembering watching a few, if I was lucky to stay up, so much in that music. Agree about Peter Gunn also. Thanks for commenting.
@@juneahernauthor Funny how a little sample of a song or the smell of food cooking can trigger a world of memories.
He received emails in 1961? Now that's truly One Step Beyond.
Like the original Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond will remain a eternal classic. They did everything right and the scripts, casting and directing were all brilliant and genial. Almost not to be found today’s paranormal/Sci Fi except the short films of …DUST…are a candle of bright hope.
How do you get e mail in the 1950's.
You mean letters in the mail.
Boris Karloff's Thriller was pretty awesome too!
@@TheKitchenerLeslie Absolutely!
What was the episode?? I couldn't listen Any more!!
One Step Beyond; Outer Limits; Twilight Zone; Man In Space; Rocky Jones Space Ranger; The Man And The Challenge; World of Giants; these were the shows that would keep me glued to the 19 inch Philco for hours and hours.
@George Williams One of my favorite shows. I remember a particular episode where the hero took a drug that sped up his reactions so much, everything else seemed in slow motion to him. He was investigating a criminal who targeted motorcycle cops.
@@VoightKampf The villain was called "The Dropper" that may be the episode title too.
Add to the list, Sea Hunt, Cannonball, Rescue 8, and Whirly Birds.
@dbltrplx Land of the Giants was an Irwin Allen production in the 60s concurrent with Time Tunnel and Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea.
@@VoightKampf That's absolutely right!
There was another show in the 50's that I enjoyed. It was called "Science Fiction Theater".
It was aired on Friday night in the NYC area and I never missed an episode. I loved the introduction.
same here
"with your host, Truman Bradley."
It was mentioned in Back To The Future by George McFly.
Yeah, that series is referenced in Back to the Future. I had no idea that that was a real tv series.
I didn't know that the host John Newland was also the director of all the episodes. I remember thinking that he talked like the most educated guy in the world, using phraseology like "an hallucination." LOL. I also remember the theme music scaring the bejabbers out of me.
I have to use that word more often BEJABBERS It fits the times.
@@bhartley868
Are you by any chance referring to the current vaccine controversy, because "bejabbers" reminds you of people being "JABBED" with a hypodermic needle?
@@michaelpalmieri7335 No, I am not.
@@bhartley868
Oh, you're not. So sorry to have bothered you.
He also directed an original star trek episode.....
I was eleven in 1959. When my parents watched this show (around 11:30 PM, I think it was), I hoped to fall asleep before I heard the music, as it scared me. I remember the one about the girl who couldn’t help setting fire to things just by getting angry (I think). That episode scared me the most.
Stephen King's inspiration for 'Firestarter"?
I took that "one step beyond" while stationed in Germany. I "saw sounds and heard colors". There is another reality running parallel to what we normally perceive. I felt as (2) separate entities - (1) physical (1) mental. The experience was so profound for me that to this day I am so glad for the "trip" but would never want to do it again.
Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
@@Carl-LaFong1618 lay off the LSD
@@MrStinger70VetontheNet naw, LSD is great!
@@lorenzosyquia4769 I like you. You're stupid
@@MrStinger70VetontheNet and how did you come by that conclusion?
Love this series. It is still a classic & still relevant.
How are they relevant?
What's your favorite episode?
Because the same questions and conundrums still beset us.
An episode about mushrooms. No wonder it was popular! Ahh, the good old days!
I remember watching this as a kid. The theme song always freaked me out.
Me too! I remember it came on at 11:00. I kept telling myself: “Don’t watch it or you won’t be able to sleep… Don’t watch it… don’t watch it.” Of course I watched it and was up most of the night.
Still gives me the creeps.
The music was so scary that my brother and I still talk about it.
Same here!
I actually appreciate how far the One Step Beyond team was willing of showing the magic mushrooms as part of their story. I'm sure María Sabina would be proud.
This show always just gave me the creeps when I was a little kid.
Those who squat on their copyright without releasing something deserve to lose their seat.
This is my favorite episode.
My next fav is the one about the rocks falling from the sky, and the pill that made gasoline out of water.
I researched that story about rocks falling from the sky in Ceres, Ca , well it was partly true but also fabricated!
@@judithscobee8102 Chico and surrounding area.
@@arklat thank you! I stand corrected, it was Chico, Ca
@@judithscobee8102 hey, no big deal.
It must have been quite a sight.
Notice that episodes are a matter of “human record”, rather than “public record”.
I'll always be a fan of _One Step Beyond_ still watching now on their channel.. Love it all👌🙃
My wife gave me a dvd compilation of episodes of One Step Beyond, I had never heard of it before but she knows I'm a big fan of TZ. It's an amazing show, I hope to find seasons 2 and 3.
You may have to go one step beyond to find them...
Imagining John Newland receiving hate e-mails on his primitive computer in 1959.
2:38 -- LOL Oops.
Especially since email was almost 20 years in the future....
@@vanceblosser2155 People are just so used to electronic text comms nowadays they say something like "email" without thinking about it.
He truly was psychic!
@@KutWrite Or a time traveler?
This show was a LOT scarier than Twilight Zone!
He got E-Mails in 1960? He really took 'one step beyond'. 😂
Sure hope all episodes, including NEXT STEP BEYOND, are released. It's a fascinating, compelling show. One of my favorites.
I just discovered this show here on RUclips and I'm working my way through the episodes. I can't believe I missed it growing up.
i always thought John Newland was British, he was born in Ohio.
i remember this show as a kid (i was born in 58), back then shows were more intellectual than they are today and "One Step Beyond" was proof of that. sure their were stupid shows but compared to today back then was like the Renaissance of TV.
today "ALL" the shows are stupid, the nuns use to call TV "the idiot box" looking at it today, they were right
Yes! Especially nowadays.
In those days, some Americans sounded pretty British!
Transatlantic accent, used somewhat more recently by Frasier and his brother Niles.
In Virginia Satir's family therapy model, communication styles are blamer, placator, distractot, computer, and leveler. There are levelers, just not enough.
I loved OSB better than most of the Twilight Zone episodes, my favorite of that show being "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". But like you I thought Newland was British or Aussie. In fact, if you listen closely, I wonder if Newland didn't try that effect on purpose. In some episodes, he says it's "a matter of human record". Then in other later episodes, he said it's "a matter of human REcord", like splitting the word into two words RE then cord, soft E . Check it out.
I'm 70 years old and remember the show about George Washington when he was talking to a lndian Chief spirit!
I remember that one too
I remember it as well. The Shaenee chief was Tecumseh. Sadly, the story was only something made up by a journalist at a later time.
I hear the White House is actually haunted.
@@SI-ln6tc There's a ghoul in there right now!
@@SI-ln6tc I don't believe Lincoln would ever visit the White House again. When they see him, I will just say those
are spiritual movies of him.
I bought the entire DVD collection for $5. Well worth it!
Cost thirty thousand dollars? That won’t even cover the catering on a cheap production now.
My wife, son and I love this show. It's not like the shows of today...it has an appeal that ANYONE can watch!
The show was ahead of its time getting those emails without the internet being invented by Al Gore yet.
Lol, best comment, lol
😂😂😂 Great reply!
Al Gore never claimed to invent the internet, that was a disgusting Republican lie. Gore made the absolutely honest statement that, as a Senator, he sponsored legislation that helped to promote the internet, as even scum vomit Rush Limbaugh had to admit was true. Swinish Republican shit.
@@paulkellar6222 My goodness - both parties are guilty of lies. Looks like the division the mainstream media is going after worked very well on you with plenty of hatred thrown in for good measure. As Americans, we had better start thinking of unity instead of division, or we won't have a country left. Don't play into their programming.
@@Galen-864 While it's true virtually all human beings lie, the sheer volume and mendacity of Republican party lies during the Bush administration were incredible . Additionally, you implied that Gore lied, which was a falsehood, so I don't need moral instruction from you.
I don’t know how I never heard of this show. I wish there was a way I could check out the entire series.
I've seen many entire shows on youtube. I don't know if they're still up
You can see all 96 episodes on our channel . . .
@@one-step-beyond-1959 which is awesome btw
@@dianevanderlinden3480 Thanks . . .
I loved One Step Beyond just as I did The Twilight Zone
In the mid 70's when I was a teenager this show was on at like 3:00 am lol right before "5 minutes to live by" and the signoff with the national anthem...Yeah that was before 24 hour programming lol
I think I remember it was 2 am when tv went off the air. The Star Spangled Banner and then test screen(?) Or was it Star Spangled Banner at 6 am when broadcast resumed(?) Both(?)
Another weird TV series from 1959 was "World of Giants" about a scientist who has been shrunk to only 6 inches tall and is carried around from mission to mission by his partner. The scientist's small size enabled him to accomplish unique outcomes that would otherwise have been impossible. This series only lasted 13 episodes but it was compelling. So far, for years only a few episodes have been available on RUclips. Where are the rest?
you made that up
@@jonnyq680 It's real, just google "World of Giants" and it's out there.
2:45 Sorry but John Newland certainly did not receive EMAILS from angry fans.
I can’t believe all of famous actors that were on the show when they were young.
All the old shows had that. Some unknown guest star who later became a BIG star
One Step Beyond is one of those amazing shows from the 50's and 60's that had that special quality that makes people want to keep watching even after all these years.
THE OUTER LIMITS
@jonnyq680 Agreed.
The Twilight Zone
One Step Beyond
The Outer Limits
Star Trek.
Each one of these Sci-Fi shows from back then has such awesome stories, and the look of each show has that iconic scenery that never gets old.
@@20th_century_Ghost The box sets of 60-year-old ST TOS and TOL hold up incredibly well.
I'm hoping Santa will bring a box set of TTZ this year...
OSB is very good, but you gotta include Thriller. Boris K. was the perfect host!
@@jonnyq680 Completely Agree!
I should have added Thriller.
I was 6 when the first episode aired. Just a few notes of the theme music brings it back. It brought a sense of wonder about the world, of the possibility of things that we cannot explain. Hearing the theme again still brings that feeling and that's a good thing.
I recall One Step Beyond from the 1960s when I was ten years old, that was a great TV series that left you thinking, later in highschool at Belmont Highschool in Los Angeles around 1970, one of my classmates had an experience with a teenager girl that he gave a ride on his way through a short cut on Mugallon Drive, he got her home and the following day we went to visit her, he.found out that she had been kill right where he picked her up.
That story just gave me a chill
@@RerunZone Also another friend that I knew back in 2009 when I had just gotten back from Afghanistan dealing with a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, told me about how she got a good scare one night when she got into her as SUV and as she was about to turn the SUV on in the rearview mirror she saw a young men in the back seat that was bleeding badly from his face and head dressed in a suit with big lapels a white shirt and tie. I knew right away that she was describing a 1940s Zoot Suit, because that area where she was at is where the WWII Zoot Suit beatings happened, when the would bring in service members to bust the heads of the Mexican teens that wore Zoot Suits. When she turned around to see there was no one there.
Check out the 1965 song “Laurie ( Strange Things Happen )” by Dickey Lee. An ironically eerie comparison 😮
That sounds almost like that old urban legend about a couple riding in their car at night, when they pass by the local cemetery. Suddenly, they see a teenaged girl standing near the road, as if she were hitchhiking. The husband and wife stop the car alongside the girl, who asks if they could give her a lift home, which they do. But, when they arrive at the address the girl told them was her home, and the couple tell the man who lives there that his daughter is in their car, the man says that he has no daughter! When the now baffled couple return to the car, they find that the girl has disappeared, but a scarf she was wearing is still on the backseat of the car. They take the scarf and show it to the man who was supposedly the girl's father, who becomes staggered at the sight of it. He finally explains that the only daughter he ever had was killed in an automobile accident several years before, and that her body was buried in the same cemetery near where the couple first encountered the mysterious girl! Her father adds that the scarf that the husband and wife found in their car belonged to his dead daughter. The father then shows them a photo of his daughter. The girl in the picture looks exactly like the young lady that they had picked up near the cemetery that very night!
Did they give a ride to a GHOST? 👻 What do you think? 🤔😬😱
Michael Palmieri Yes Sir ! Very similar to that song “Laurie”. Does kinda make you wonder ? 🤔I guess “strange things do happen in this world” 😮😮😮
The legendary actors in this series was great!
This show was like 30 years before emails.
we used to really like the show and the episode i remember from back then was about a man who disappeared in a glider plane and reappeared years later as a skeleton flying the the plane. it really scared me along with the music from the show.
I remember that episoe,it as always m favorite
Hey steve..what was the name of that episode..
@@uncleankie9436 i only saw it the one time over 50 yrs. ago and i don''t remember the name.
@@steveperry1344 Dam!!! It had to be that good if you saw it once ..50 yrs ago.. and you still remember!!! But thanks for responding to me....
Line was " German glider enthusiasts agree to reunite after war was over
John Newland received EMAILS during the time that he was producing the show??? No, I don't think so.
One Step Beyond was shows that were based on unexplained actual events. You know, like someone being trapped in a collapsed cave and a loved one has a premonition on where to find that person. I loved this show. Some were stupid, but most of them were very interesting. Lot of ghost stories!
The episodes have been ending up on OTA TV stations from time to time. It is fascinating to see actors who had their big break on that show becoming well-known and quite popular down the road. You can see a number of them in this little introduction here.
William Shatner appeared in an episode and then did two classic Twilight Zones. After that, I think he starred in some outer space show.
@@DavidLS1 I do remember the "Twilight Zone" episode. It was a classic.
Classic Reruns TV airs it daily in my area late afternoon. Only problem is the digital channel is hit or miss...sometimes it's fine, other times it goes into a freeze frame..sometimes for an hour. The same channel has Science Fiction Theater Saturday evenings.
@@DavidLS1 Are you kidding me? He was a super star on Star Trek from the mid to the late 1960s, we have Lucille ball to credit for this!
@@scottmiller6495 It was a joke, Scott.
I love the one about Anthony, that a wife contacts on a Ouija Board!
I personally don't believe in the supernatural, but I loved One Step Beyond as a kid. I wondered what the reality was in the stories.
I don't believe in the supernatural either. However, I believe things happen that are waaaaay beyond our understanding and would look supernatural through the lens all our limited knowledge and understanding.
Wow, Newland must've been psychic, like for reallsies, if he received emails before they existed. SPOOKY!
I've eaten mushrooms that made me think I had psychic ability.
Fabulous stories and like when he says Its a matter of human record. Still enjoy them after all these years.
At 2:35 the narrator states that the director would receive emails accusing him of being the anti-Christ. Email did not exist when this program was on television, and did not appear until almost thirty years later. You can tell what generation the narrator belongs to from this erroneous comment.
This is the second video I have caught and just like the first absolutely enjoyed it. Found it very interesting and I would definitely love to check out the series. Thank you so much for posting. Everyone take care, take it easy and be safe
Having never heard of the show before, I bought a DVD collection once, and wouldn't have known if it was complete or not. Checking the episodes, then seeing the episode count on each disk, I only have fifty episodes, and no, I don't have the mushroom episode.
A number of full episodes are here on RUclips including 'The Sacred Mushroom'. There may be others that weren't on your DVD collection.
I believe, Richard, there were 96 episodes total made of this series. 74 directed by Newland himself. You should be able to find these episodes.
@@lastrada52 yea, I had to do some listing and figuring and omitting titles then redoing it the other way around to see what episodes I had and didn't have, so I now know what episodes to look for that I haven't seen.
This is one phenomenally heavy show.
I wish CBS would release season 2 and 3 on video. The versions out there are from scratchy old prints. Their season ONE looks and sounds great. Don't they know there is a ready made audience for this?
He would receive *emails!* In the 50s??
Wha...??? 😳
I can state with 100% confidence that the creator of "One Step Beyond" was most assuredly *not* receiving angry e-mails when the stories aired. It came out in the 1960s, fer Chrissakes!
I thought I'd misheard that - but that is what he said, isn't it. Wow!
@@perry801 he probably meant letters. we all slip up
@@ashertelvallo9480 Yes, I'm sure he did.
Well, it is One Step Beyond. Maybe he got e- mails from the Future. 👻
OR, it was auto-correct! Chill!
Insomnia led to watching late-night TV, and there I saw two episodes of this show. I was astonished by the quality of it, especially by the acting of the major characters.
I haven't seen this show in decades. Something about Newland scared the piss out of me in those days.
I LOVE THIS SHOW, REAL FACTUAL STORIES and awesome actors
I bought season 1 out of the bargain bin at Walmart. I just found seasons 2 and 3 on eBay that are "Digitally remastered". However, some reviews complained of the poor image quality and out of sync audio. If anyone knows differently, please respond. Season 1 was fantastic.
I still to this day watch these reruns
Where do you see these on tv?
Hey wait! New land DID show ESP powers when he ate the mushrooms! Blindfolded, he put his hand on the photo of a big waterfall. He said "I feel power".I remember see that episode when I was a child.I'm 70 now. I don't know why you say the experiment was a flop.
Good additional information. Thanks.
It's on RUclips ~ "One Step Beyond": The Sacred Mushroom. (Best 5 Episode)
One episode involved soldiers during WW1 stopping fighting when both sides saw a vision in the sky. I researched the day quoted - then had an idea. Further research showed that there was a bright aurora that very night visible over the whole of Europe. One mystery solved!
That episode was based on an actual event that occurred around Christmas time when both sides quite fighting and shared a Christmas Eve celebration exchanging trinkets, signing carols and sharing food/drink.
@@Theywaswrong surely you are wrong? The episode states the date - the exact date of a European aurora! Fits perfectly - nothing to do with Chrismas.
Oh wow! I loved that episode it was like divine intervention!
@@Theywaswrong I seem to remember such a story, too, Rick. Like you said "based upon".👍
One story based upon the other(?)
Walt Disney made Fantasia after a mushroom ceremony in Mexico.
The full episode is on RUclips! - ▶ "One Step Beyond": The Sacred Mushroom. (Best 5 Episode)
They have an entire episode about Magic Mushrooms, remote viewing, how they are used in mexico, and then the host takes mushrooms and proves how they improve his ability to see through objects.. like not just a little bit. He went from getting scores of 0, to over half of guesses correct. This show was way ahead of its time. They hid that episode for over 30 years. Its up on youtube now!
I used to watch it whenever I could get away with it (I was 11 when it premiered). One that always got to me was called The Burning Girl and dealt with Spontaneous Human Combustion in a way. 😱
Yes! I’m the same age as you and just wrote similarly about that episode (though I didn’t remember it accurately).
Thank you for giving the public information about certain events that truly happened and provided a purpose why those situations turned out.
I've only just started watching episodes of this series. One episode was definitely the inspiration for Carrie (I can't remember the name of the episode.) Anyway this is a great video with some interesting facts. Good stuff.
This one sent me down a rabbit hole. Chasing some of the cast.
I wish they would put out season 2 and 3 on DVD.
A number of full episodes are right here on RUclips. I don't know from which season they came.
It wasn't just the theme music that was chilling--Newland himself was.
Agree. There is something about his demeanor that always gave me the creeps.
The one show that scared me as a kid when I got to stay up late enough to see it.
Good video, on a series that deserves more attention. Newland was not only an excellent ---and even mesmerizing---host, but did something that seems, to my knowledge, to be unique in television history, but directing every single episode. It certainly was HIS show!
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that in the final season----or at least part of it---Newland moved his efforts to England and created episodes with even more substantial production values than the prior 2 seasons, which certainly didn't slack in the department.
Newland also directed a Night Gallery episode for Rod Serling. The difference between One Step Beyond & Twilight Zone (fiction) is that many of the One Step Beyond episodes are based on what is presumed to be true.
Personally, the creepiest episode(s) I ever saw: the one about the Titanic, the young girl hitchhiking on a rainy road trying to come home. The surgery by the first-aid medic aboard a ship during the war -- saved the life of the Captain only to find out the surgeon on another ship that guided him by radio through the surgery was actually dead hours before.
This was a great original series. Though Newland was quite stiff like Jack Webb, he was actually an incredibly creative director, producer & actor (once nominated for an Emmy in 1953).
@@lastrada52 Interesting selection of favorites.
I only have a different viewpoint on one thing: I found Newland a very relaxed and comfortable guide/host through this series. He was an actor and very used to being in front of the camera. The host who seemed to be stiff was Rod Serling who did not feel or look comfortable in front of a camera, and also disliked the idea of having to be in front of one for the series, effective as he was. Webb was indeed a real stiff: It seemed this was the way he behaved in real life, according to an actor friend I knew who worked with Webb on both versions of DRAGNET.
@@RSEFX - Oh, I agree with you that Newland was also relaxed & comfortable, no doubt. It's just that his delivery, maybe his vocal intonation, seemed a little unnatural as far as a normal speaking voice.
Lots of doom & gloom when he should've just introduced things a little more loose. Alfred Hitchcock on his show for instance & Boris Karloff on Thriller were more light-hearted considering the subject of their programs.
They had so many good actors in their casts.
I love the show, have them all.
I remember this episode the most. The last time that I saw it, I was a 16 year old, living near cow pastures in central Florida. I had already delved into mushrooms. It was fascinating to watch old straight laced looking people doing what us wannabe hippie kids were doing. 🤔😂
Did we see a few later major stars? William Shatner, Ross Martin, Charles Bronson.
Good video, but the paranormal and supernatural are part of the fantasy genre. What Rod Serling must've said is that he planned to do only fiction, whereas Newland's goal was to do recreations of actual events, even though that goal wasn't entirely achieved.
John Newland got emails in the 1960's? Were they from the future?
Thanks for the insights. The show definitely was ahead of it's time. I love the scene in "The Sacred Mushroom" where John has taken the mushrooms and the researcher starts flashing a strobe light at him - the makings of mellow trip - NOT.
There’s another British TV series of the 70’s called SST Sunday Suspense Theater.
OK, so a show about a Shamanic Journey with magic mushrooms became One Step Beyond's most popular episode in 1961! Talk about being ahead of your time!
An excellent documentary piece, I reckon. Thanks for putting this on here.
I recall that particular episode in syndication. So so way way ahead of its time.
I liked the episode where the man had a dream of a plane hitting his house. He had actually seen the numbers on the plane. It later happened in real life; all the way down to the numbers on the plane.
There was also a rare sequel "The Next Step Beyond".
As for the mushroom episode it is true. The researcher was R. Wasson and the shaman was a actually a woman name Maria Sabina.
Oh wow I didn’t realize he saw Maria Sabina! What a woman she was, and newland was soooo ahead of his time!
The episode that really interested me was the one about rocks falling out of the air.
@liberal rationalist it happened multiple times in the same area.
How about the wife of a man trapped under water about to drown and his wife knew he was in trouble and was able to find him!
The spookiest episode to me was the one where Robert Blake played an escaped prisoner. His partner unknowingly to Blake was killed during the escape but his ghost convinced Blake to turn himself in.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
It gave me a smile to see Newland on shrooms becoming unbuttoned for a while.
I actually like it better than Twilight Zone.
I’ve got the same name as the host, and can remember how cool it was to see “my” name on the screen on our old b/w tv.
imagine how scared I was when I read that Brian Jones of the Stones had drowned.....I haven't bathed since....why take a chance?
In the summer of 1973,I was living i Port Huron,Mi.A station in Detroit.I immediately became a fan.Later a station in Houston carried it.I began watching again.I hope some nostalgia channel would pick it up
I never developed psyche abilities , but I did witness green glowing flying saucers, about 3inches across fly out of my bedroom closet.
Can you elaborate on your experience? Sounds wild.
After eating mushrooms, I presume? Haha.
Who told you?😁
The theory about mushrooms was not false then or now. Not popular, but not false. Think back to Viking Berserkers. Archeology has found them and discovered the potion they used was mushrooms and herbs. So, Shrooms has been a thing for centuries.
I've seen the " Magic Mushroom" episode a few times in re runs.
I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan; how did I miss this show?!!
You can see all 96 episodes on our channel . . .
The greatest time on television and you'll never ever see again anything like this anymore ever PERIOD!!!!!
emails?? sorry but John would not have been getting emails back in the 60's
I caught that too
The fact is the "sacred mushroom" is the psilocybin mushroom. drug abusers use this to get high, but it is also a treatment for depression that works better than some anti-depressant pills.
This is common knowledge. You take tiny doses. So you don't hallucinate. It is even decriminalized in some states.