▶ "One Step Beyond": Episode of the Week (9/24)

"I SAW YOU TOMORROW" -- SEASON (2) EPISODE (28). April 5 1960.
COMMENTARY (spoilers alert): In "One Step Beyond", time seems to skip its tracks with a jarring frequency. "The Open Window" dramatizes a situation much like the central scenario of "I Saw You Tomorrow": a vision of the future detected as real by the percipient, but which has not happened yet in real time. In this case, American Donald Stewart is placed in the familiar role of Cassandra as he experiences a vision of murder yet to come and is not believed by others. The murder is not in the past, as one might rightly expect (indicating a haunting and a ghost seeking justice), but actually in the future.
Is Stewart's experience a form of dejå vu (literally: "already seen"), or a half-forgotten memory of an event that has not yet occurred in linear time (?) Or is Donald Stewart simply facing the forward thrust of "inevitability," as a dinner conversation in "I Saw You Tomorrow" suggests (?) It is apparently inevitable that Claire will be murdered, and even Donald's intervention cannot stop fate's hand from acting. These are the questions which dominate "I Saw You Tomorrow", a competent, well-informed show with a nice air of urgency to it.
The "One Step Beyond"' explanation for Donald's odd psychic experience is "mental radio," the belief that man's brain receives psychic signals (as if a radio) and then interprets those signals. Unlike most people, Donald Stewart's mental radio apparently is tuned not to the present but to the future, and thus he receives his vision. That answer may sound far fetched to some, but it is an interesting conclusion (and one that would also fit the events of "The Open Window"). Mental radio could easily be an alternate name for our old friend the premonition. Stated succinctly, Donald Stewart sees the future just as Grace Montgomery does in "Night of April 14" or Ellen Larabee does in 'Emergency Only."
In addition to featuring a familiar theme (seeing the future), similar character dynamics (a Cassandra and a married couple in jeopardy), "I Saw You Tomorrow" concludes with a well-oiled "One Step Beyond" convention: accurate psychic visions misinterpreted. Donald experiences the vision of the murder and tries to protect Claire from her murderous husband.
However: Claire and Carter leave the hotel, both alive and well, throwing a monkey wrench in Stewart's prediction of death. It is only in his closing narration that Newland reveals the stinger: Claire was murdered by her husband in the very same house, on the very same weekend . . . but one year later. And, sadly, Donald Stewart was not there to intervene. The misread message was also seen in "Emergency Only" and "Premonition," among others . . .
From John Kenneth Muir's definitive book "An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond": • ▶ "One Step Beyond" Ba...

[@terryford8280]

💐I love all episodes .. One Step Beyond!! Awesome show. Thanks for this upload. What, I'm 1st!! 🏆

[@russellgraham7535]

One of my favorites to

[@russellgraham7535]

+my favorite when I was 6 years old

[@pw529]

ONE OF THE BETTER EPISODES THANK YOU VERY MUCH , THIS WAS ONE OF MY LATE MOTHERS FAVORITE SERIES WHENEVER I WATCH I THINK OF HER ,

[@craiggleason8386]

Has to be some of the most eerie music! Makes the show!

[@sarahalbers5555]

Iconic.

[@kategray9]

Agree. It’s spooky music.

[@johnqpublic314]

If ever a melody fit a program this one did.

[@candyflair7946]

I agree, it is totally cool and eerie.

[@spidermoth1170]

Sometimes for some things we are just NOT allowed to interfere with at all, even when we have the insight of the event. Good watch Thanks O.S.B. 👍🏻🥂🌹

[@pleasantdaddy]

These shows are so great!

[@andreadaniel8792]

I thought I’ve seen every OSB episode, but this one was new to me. 👏🏾👏🏾

[@johnqpublic314]

Newland always seemed to give the plot away with that little smile at the end.

[@SINCITYJIM1]

Excellent series. The music & the black & white gives it an atmospheric touch.

[@usmale4915]

Very good episode...but then again, all episodes are great! Thank you for posting these fantastic episodes. I began watching OSB when it first aired on ABC! It's so good to see them again...can hardly wait for the episodes: "Tidal Wave" and "The Secret", two of the best ones. Thanks!

[@psw4763]

Always great stories.

[@Bebecat477]

I love these. Thank you for uploading. I appreciate it.

[@DH-kl5rx]

The acting in all the episodes I have watched surpasses the acting in any current day television productions.

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

In the 50s and 60s, a stiff drink always fixed someone from any off the wall behavior. 🥃🍸🍷🥃🍸🍷

[@JohnDoe-wb4iv]

One step beyond was pres Kennedy's fav show rip jfk

[@annihilator45]

Great show!

[@mimiwilson3810]

I love this show. The only thing that drives me insane is the fact that every episode has a woman screaming. Haha. These were made before airpods. 😂

[@candyflair7946]

Great video!

[@stephaniehand503]

thank you

[@terryford8280]

**FATE CAN'T BE MESSED WITH!!**

[@Harbalz]

Back when there was AM radio, not FM...

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[@Harbalz]

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[@missjoshemmett]

Good one! This is the last season when they moved to England for a new set of good actors and story ideas, right?

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Not yet . . . this episode is from the end of Season 2.

[@briancoleman4864]

Scary

[@Broken_Arrow58]

An accident in time.