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S3 E28 The Avengers

Horror

9+

21 minutes

31 Dec 1960

During the Second World war a Nazi general invites locals, whom he later plans to send to death camps, to a château for a celebration which, in its detail, copies one held there a hundred and fifty years earlier.Featuring: John Newland, Robert Douglas, Olan Soule

Season 3, 34 Episodes

One Step Beyond - Tidalwave

In 1960 a series of earthquakes activate a tsunami, which heads towards Honolulu. Wheelchair-bound Margaret North, stuck in her house, prays for help and finds it when stone deaf, elderly Thomas Powers, lost on the island, comes to her house.

One Step Beyond - The Anniversary of a Murder

The Anniversary of a Murder,

A married businessman is having a secret affair, and one night while he's driving home drunk from a rendezvous with his mistress, he runs over and kills a young boy.

One Step Beyond - The Death Waltz

The Death Waltz,

At a cavalry outpost in 1860s New Mexico, flirtatious, heartless Lillie takes great delight in playing her two beaus, decent Eustace Fairchild and the sexier, more dashing Henry Buchanan off against each other.

One Step Beyond - Moment of Hate

Moment of Hate,

A successful but driven businesswoman, Karen Wadsworth, is convinced that she can make her thoughts become reality. She soon begins to believe that she can use the power of suggestion and turn it into the power to kill.

One Step Beyond - To Know the End

To Know the End,

Emily MacDougall, a young woman living in England during World War II, begins to have strange hallucinations of death and destruction.

One Step Beyond - The Trap

A young man discovers a strange parallel universe with dangerous repercussions.

One Step Beyond - The Voice

Young reporter Jared Corning travels to a small New England town to cover the trial of several local people accused of setting fire to a barn owned by unpopular Tom Goss. Jared finds it hard to believe that their aim was to kill a pet raccoon.

One Step Beyond - The Promise

Following the Second World War German ex-prisoner of war Carl Bremer remains in London, working on bomb disposal units. He marries a local woman and she is about to give birth to their child.

One Step Beyond - Tonight at 12:17

Tonight at 12:17,

Laura Perkins is expecting a baby, and the pregnancy is worrying her. She is soon shocked to discover, however, that her condition has resulted in her having extraordinary psychic powers.

One Step Beyond - Where Are They?

Where Are They?,

In 1922 the town of Chico, California was pelted by rocks falling from an empty sky. A writer who called himself The Ghost took credit for the phenomena, but was never identified.

One Step Beyond - Legacy of Love

Legacy of Love,

Two people are drawn to a remote town and to each other without explanation.

One Step Beyond - Rendezvous

A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her.

One Step Beyond - The Executioner

The Executioner,

In 1862, Confederate soldier Jess Bradley and his faithful dog are captured by a sadistic Union officer, Col. Martin. When Jess' dog is killed, forces from beyond began to take a strange revenge on the colonel.

One Step Beyond - The Last Round

The Last Round,

A prizefighter who has fallen on very hard times is visited by the ghost of a fellow boxer, who reminds him of a terrifying old legend that may well come true.

One Step Beyond - Dead Man's Tale

Dead Man's Tale,

A down-on-his-luck newsman, Phillip Werris, checks into a flea-bag hotel with his wife Jan, where he finds a manual on how to prospect for gold.

One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom

The Sacred Mushroom,

Newland and his associates visit a remote Mexican village to determine if eating a rare mushroom can enhance one's extrasensory perception capacities.

One Step Beyond - The Gift

It's May in England and a Gypsy fortuneteller and her rakish son set to work rooking a gullible public. But when the phony fortuneteller actually receives the gift of clairvoyance she has long prayed for, she is startled by what she sees.

One Step Beyond - Person Unknown

Person Unknown,

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

One Step Beyond - Night of Decision

Night of Decision,

During the American Revolution, Gen. George Washington is suddenly visited by visions that convince him the revolution will be successful.

One Step Beyond - The Stranger

Following an earthquake in Asia Minor three living people are dug out of the rubble. They claim that a fourth man, who has died, was the driving force who sustained their battle for survival, but finger prints reveal him to be a prisoner.

One Step Beyond - Justice

A man confesses to murdering a child, but the members of his church swear that at the time of the killing the man was asleep in a pew.

One Step Beyond - The Face

From early childhood Stephen Bolt has frightening dreams of a man's ominous face. Later he sees that the man's hand threatens him with a knife. Stephen knows the dreams are a premonition of his death, but his family are unsympathetic.

One Step Beyond - The Room Upstairs

The Room Upstairs,

Will and Esther Hollis, a childless American couple, rent an old house in London. Esther is convinced she can hear a child crying though nobody else can. She locates the cries to an upstairs room, which she enters.

One Step Beyond - Signal Received

Signal Received,

In 1941 two sailors from HMS Hood, Watson and Breed, hear a strange radio broadcast stating that the ship has been sunk with heavy loss of life. Their shipmate Robin Hughes, however, hears that he will live to a ripe old age.

One Step Beyond - The Confession

The Confession,

Standing on a soap box, Harvey Lawrence proclaims that he killed a man. A flashback reveals that when he was an up-and-coming lawyer prosecuting a man for murder, he deliberately allowed the man to hang.

One Step Beyond - The Avengers

During the Second World war a Nazi general invites locals, whom he later plans to send to death camps, to a château for a celebration which, in its detail, copies one held there a hundred and fifty years earlier.

One Step Beyond - The Prisoner

Ruth Goldman,a survivor of the Nazi death camps,receives a visitor,Hessler,who oversaw her cruel treatment during her imprisonment,and she kills him. However,it turns out that Hessler has been dead for several years.

One Step Beyond - Blood Flower

Professor Carroll is a political theorist who nonetheless has a neutral stance when it comes to radical involvement. He becomes strangely political after sniffing a rare Latin American flower.

One Step Beyond - The Sorcerer

In World War One German officer Reitliger enlists the help of Karnak, a man with supposed psychic powers, to find out how his girlfriend Elsa is faring back in Germany. Seeing a vision of her infidelity he gets Karnak to will him back home.

One Step Beyond - The Villa

A group of Britons are holidaying at an Italian villa where young medical student Tony Hudson hypnotizes his friend's wife,Mary Low. Whilst in a trance,Mary becomes hysterical,claiming that she can sense a young woman trapped in a lift.

One Step Beyond - Midnight

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

One Step Beyond - The Tiger

Miss Cartwright is hired to be the new governess to young Pamela. Cartwright immediately dismisses Pamela's beloved nanny, Mrs. Murphy, and finds a punishment room for the child in the basement.

One Step Beyond - Nightmare

A troubled painter is obsessed with painting a young lady he's never met before. He determines to find her in real life before the obsession drives him crazy.

One Step Beyond - Eyewitness

In 1883, a Boston newspaperman writes a detailed eyewitness account of a natural disaster -- a full day before it happens. Working in his office late one night, Henry Soames finds his concentration rocked by four momentous explosions.

Details

One Step Beyond

Horror

9+

3 Seasons

26 minutes

Produced at the same time as the more well-known The Twilight Zone (1959), this series was an extension of the tradition of radio horror and supernatural dramas such as Light's Out, The Mysterious Traveler and The Witch's Tale.

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