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To Mark Simon: The episode you are looking for is called Reunion. I also appreciated the strangeness factor of this story. I remember seeing it during the original run of the series. It's one of many One Step Beyond shows that have not been released to the public. Hopefully it's not forever lost.
To all One Step Beyond fans: Check out John Kenneth Muir's book An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961. More information than you probably want to know about the history of this fine TV series including a synopsis and analysis of many, if not all, episodes filmed including Reunion. There is a new edition scheduled for release on Halloween, October 31, 2006. For those of you who can't wait go to alibris.com where you might be able to pick up a used hardcover.
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Although I do appreciate this box set, please don't stop here. There are @ least 40 odd more to complete this series. Does anyone know anyone or anything about what's the hang-up here? You can only look @ these so many times and they start losing their effectiveness. What am I saying? I'll still re-run them until they release the remaining ones. It's worth the price. John Newland is still effective and Harry Lubin's score is still the creepiest around.
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It says "before the Twilight Zone there was One Step Beyond".
Both TV shows debuted in 1959.
There was an episode about a murdered glider pilot and the glider comes back on the anniversary of its vanishing. I've gone through all the episodes on tv.com and can't find it.
If anyone know the name of this episode, let me know please.
Mark
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John Newland was as creepy as Rod Serling was strange. That's the only comparison worthy between these two shows. So often comparisons spring forth between Zone and Step, but they are neither justified, nor accurate.
Zone is generally a charachter study of people in the most perplexing of situations that could never take place in the real world.
Step is a study of unexplainable events that were documented by the people the events affected, then dramatized by actors.
Step was not only enormously entertaining to watch, it was smart in execution. Newland not only hosts, but also directs many episodes. Anyone who is a fan of the genre of the unexplained should definitely take a look at this incredible show.
Show rating: 5 stars, DVD transfer: 3 stars, packaging: 2 stars (12 DVD's in regular size Amaray cases in a flimsy posterboard thickness paper box sleeve??! Come on guys, we collectors deserve a smarter, more space saving and quality package.)
Overall rating: 4 stars
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Watching old episodes of "One Step Beyond" takes me back
to childhood, Saturday afternoons and the spooky unknown. This
was dead-pan serious television for us kids in the 60's and early 70's and we found every episode not only thought-provoking, but literally hair-raising... Ah, the innocence of youth.......
ANYWAY.....I digress.....
Delta Entertainment does a good job with the packaging and formatting of their 12 DVD set as well as the best possible transferring of available 16mm prints.
My only issue ? Delta uses old syndication prints that were cut, spliced, recut and respliced as commercials were inserted and removed over and over. As anyone who ever worked in a television station editing film knows, frames are lost with every commercial insertion and removal, eventually consuming not only the short fade-outs but dialog as well. It is particularly noticeable in these prints at the splice connecting John Newland's final comments with the ending credit sequence. In several episodes, this results in the viewer missing that last little "sting".
But it's of minor consequence. "One Step Beyond" is truly
a nostalgic "step back" in time, and anyone old enough to remember watching it all those years ago will certainly enjoy the memories invoked by watching it again.....
(and I, too, hope Delta releases the rest of the series soon!)
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