▶ "One Step Beyond": The Open Window.

SEASON (2) EPISODE (7). November 3 1959.
From John Kenneth Muir's definitive book "An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond":

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

If this reminds you of something else, it's probably the "Summer Heat" episode of the series "The Veil" (1958): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZfdqHeLoJh_hsk . There's good reason to believe that "Summer Heat" influenced the writing of "The Open Window" . . .

[@Wombania]

Yes, I remember that one. Quite similar.

[@ganados0]

I thought they were based on stories, for instance 'The Return of Mitchel Campion' ends with a claim that story made the papers.

[@Lamvesp]

Thanks for the heads up.

[@aquarius560]

I just discovered this show a few days ago..and I'm literally addicted!!!! What fascinating episode👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤

[@kazilziya830]

I watched this show when it first aired in the 50s. It makes a lot more sense now than it did when i was 8yrs old lol.

[@adrienebailey9010]

I could watch these shows a million times and still come back and watch them again.

[@larrylorenzen2449]

Been watching this since I was a boy in the 50s……

[@rodhanson7112]

One step beyond, the twilight zone and the Outer Limits had good stories and great actors love em

[@nyccatholic2765]

Very creative episode with fantastic "phone-call acting" scene from Actress Lori March!!! Rest In God's Peace♥️ Fave Fab Vintage TV Series! Much Thanks for This Channel!!!!!!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Glad you found us . . .

[@roman6135]

I believe the model is the actress from the movie Cujo.

[@ookie1]

These shows are way before my time , , i have watched two so far and I found them very interesting i give them two thumbs up 👍👍

[@sallykohorst8803]

Great to get a new episode of this great show I discovered before Christmas!

[@Thomas-ky3rl]

Being the 1950s every apartment had a open window before air-conditioning.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

I guess that the movie "Rear Window" (1954) -- *IMDB 8.5 (!)* -- would be the best demonstration of this . . .

[@sharoneh8929]

I am really enjoying these episodes: the stories and the casting. Just delightful and so entertaining 🤠😁.

[@joandibello5156]

Love this show along with the Twilight zone, Classic , my favorite shows

[@estelleadamski308]

I never really like Twilight Zone, really creepy, I liked these b/c they were real stories

[@enilenis]

Love these stories. Everyone has something unexplained in their lives that the mind tries to rationalize, but often, there is no after, and one is left to wonder for the rest of their lives, if things that couldn't be actually happened.

[@septemberquest6393]

Classic episode...OSB was among the best film series in its genre..lots of actors got their start in some of these ...just like the beautiful Louise Fletcher ,of "Cuckoos Nest" fame in this one...great storylines and eeriness ...golden.🎞🎞👍👍

[@nadiac6042]

Thank you 👏👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻♥️

[@fluffgirl1000]

Louise flécher is 86 now and had an great career

[@tonythayer363]

That's where I remember her from cuckoos nest, and star trek ds9

[@jeremyc2445]

Passed in 2022 at 88 RIP

[@jeffscott9335]

Most of these I'm watching for the first time as I was a toddler when they first aired and only rarely (but eagerly) saw them in reruns. I enjoyed this one very much.. An engaging storyline, well acted and beautifully directed by John Newland. It's like looking into a time machine at the late 1950s culture, the sensibilities, the zeitgeist if you will. Excellent.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

That aspect of OSB is as interesting to me as the parapsychology: exploring 1950s sensibility . . .

[@ddivincenzo1194]

Louise Fletcher?!! Still beautiful all these years later!

[@rachelstratman1405]

Thank you! I was trying to place the face!

[@paulcaron400]

What an episode!!! Sent me reeling emotionally.

[@hungfao]

Wow! A young Nurse Ratched. $200? Could be worth more now. Thanks for putting these up.

[@steveneardley7541]

The model was in a couple of Perry Mason episode, playing completely different types. A good actress.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

That is Louise Fletcher. I first saw her in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”; this is the first time that I’ve seen her in this television show.

[@tonythayer363]

Wow seeing her soo young is crazy when I remember her for her role in star trek deep space nine

[@barbmackley3257]

She’s gorgeous!

[@howardcohen6817]

Most astonishing how, in the flash of a moment, Jeannie seems blandly unexciting but the painting alive and inviting. The artist even comments on this (I'm just at the beginning). Very interesting entranceway for that one step.

[@magicaltruths5539]

Love One Step Beyond

[@CynthiaLK]

Until right near the end, I thought this was going to end like Miniature in The Twilight Zone. A man tries to rescue a woman who's in a dangerous situation, but nobody else can see her. He ends up in her world, and they live happily ever after.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Yes, I like that. Yours is an equally entertaining story and characteristic of the "Twilight Zone" style, as you say. But it's just not what OSB is all about . . .

[@dianepriore9576]

Twilite zone is so great / ROD SERLING HAD TO BE DOING SOME GOOD DRUGS !! AND LOVED THE PARANORMAL !! I CANT BELIEVE WHAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE ... PPL DONT BELIEVE N DONT KNOW WHAT THEYRE MISSING

[@donnalarivee9584]

LLP p

[@ChristmasLore]

@@dianepriore9576 , imaginative people need no drugs to get creative (even if many of them enjoy those).

[@rochducey4669]

Yes… Louise Fletcher

[@jeremyc2445]

Yes!

[@steveneardley7541]

She was in two Perry Masons--one being "The Case of the Mythical Monkeys." She was very appealing in both shows, and a very good actress. To think that her most famous role is in Cuckoo's Nest.

[@louisescanlon7478]

Very good episode. Thank you so much. 🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘

[@marthaharnish178]

I had a similar experience as I was leaving work one day. I was walking past a coworker's cubicle, and suddenly it was like I saw a movie in front of me. It was outdoors at night, and I saw a blue car flip over and fly off an exit ramp. There was one person in the car, but I couldn't tell if they were alive. I stopped in my tracks. My coworker, Debbie, looked worried as she asked what was wrong. She said I looked like I'd seen a ghost. I told her it was just about that weird. We sat down, and I told her what had happened. I was shaking. I told her that I felt like it was going to happen to someone who sits near us, but I didn't know who. It was as if I had watched it from a distance. About a week later, I went in to work one morning to find Debbie waiting for me. She was very upset as she asked if I'd heard about Steve. Steve's desk was about 15 or 20 feet from mine. He had taken his brother-in-law's new car for a test drive, hit a patch of ice on an exit ramp, and flipped over, leaving the road. He was in serious condition in the hospital. I learned later that Steve had been the only one in the blue car.

[@steveneardley7541]

Precognition is a real, and often comes in the form of very realistic dreams. A lot of research is being done on it at the University of Virginia. Some of the experiments are treated in "The Sense of Being Stared At," by Rupert Sheldrake.

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

Wow. An experience like that must have changed you entire outlook on life and living.

[@nehalesbarchard5247]

I hope Steve recovered!!

[@luislaplume8261]

When the landlord talked about drinking that green liquid he means Absinthe which is now legal in some state after 120 years of it being prohibited.

[@donaldleroy6502]

Another great one in a long line of excellence

[@cherylgreer7502]

I remember the episode about President Lincoln when I was a kid

[@derekseven1647]

She gets paid $25 an hour. At that time that was extremely good. Minimum wage was probably less than a dollar when this was made.

[@robertholman8730]

$1.25 hour😢

[@withgoddess]

All he had to do is throw something from his room to break the window... 😟

[@droberts8703]

Thanks so much

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

You're welcome!

[@stephaniehand503]

thank you

[@jesuschristlovesyou.3669]

True incident s in life

[@blackdot3538]

Great episode. Time slip. Thank you.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Black Dot: Glad you found it. I myself like it . . . more than most OSB admirers seem to do. It's a very clean, straightforward story line . . .

[@Saudyization]

I just realized the heat is mostly on on these episodes lol.. But I enjoyed them

[@Hagbayon]

I think Ms Ginie and Mr Marj will have some romantic direction from here on. Well, they look good together! And fight like lovers when in fact they aren't just yet :)

[@glennhoddle10]

Totally agreed. She has the hots for him but she is in self denial.

[@mitchg7809]

Is that nurse Ratchet?

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Yes . . .

[@annalynnzinnph.d.5337]

It sure is.

[@leyekminded3661]

Louise Fletcher nurse ratchet was given the name of Mildred

[@valeriebellomo3573]

Yes sir! Tis

[@mandyadler4536]

Which one is nurse Ratchet?

[@jamesvickers9476]

The man never told the landlord the women was trying to gas herself...yet he said it...writers missed that

[@gorillaau]

Well spotted.

[@dwaynes5983]

Who remembers Brainstorm?? with of course another great actress , Natalie Wood and Christopher Walken.

[@moonlitdesert]

I do.

[@dmitridasilva8213]

How did he know? Oh, my God!...

[@robbiemcdonnell8482]

My child!

[@lolitabonita08]

LOLOL it is hot hot...no one is at home...no AC but the gal finds ice cubes for the drink...

[@aleafox1675]

Is that model a young nurse Ratchet?

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

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[@rangerannie5636]

She certainly looks like Louise Fletcher. I was thinking the same thing. She is a beautiful woman.

[@patriciahayes2664]

@@rangerannie5636Yes, it was Louise Fletcher.

[@char524]

Building owner said, “Sorry for the disturbances, Mrs Hallorann.” Wasn’t that the last name of someone in “The Shining “?

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Yes. “Richard ‘Dick’ Hallorann” was the head chef at the Overlook Hotel. P.S. Just listened to that part and I think that the guy said “Mrs. Hallrahan”.

[@georges3799]

If it was so hot, why did the model put on an overcoat?

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Modesty . . .

[@TERoss-jk9ny]

@@one-step-beyond-1959: Yep! Back when people had “class”.

[@robertholman8730]

A person wouldn't wear a swimsuit, unless at the beach. Very unacceptable in public!

[@denniscrannie1126]

Wearing a swimsuit in public while while trying to get home in NYC would be a nightmare. Imagine if she was dressed like that and the police found her with $75 cash. Oh my.😢

[@agtpony]

She say $25.00 per hour?

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

$250 per hour . . . in 2021 dollars.

[@nancyhowell4505]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Sounds great to me! 😳

[@gorillaau]

​@@nancyhowell4505Not bad for an evenings work.

[@Open2OpenUT]

It’s Kai Wynn!

[@myjakiepoo]

Anyone recognize the woman in the window? Could it be Marjorie Lord? She looks like the wife on the Danny Thomas show.

[@estelleadamski308]

she complains it's so hot, and yet she is wearing a coat!

[@robertholman8730]

It wasnt unusual for people to wear a jacket, or something else. They dealt with it, knowing everyone was just as hot!😢

[@sablon3123]

I CANT FIND THIS ARTIST?

[@patrikwright2658]

Nurse ratchet yum yum

[@marieruiz5696]

My goodness girl have a little dignity!!!! Very weird u have the only window, but to some else apartment!!!!

[@robertholman8730]

Actually thousands of apartments had this situation!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Yes, it was a characteristically big-city thing . . . back in the day. Ultimate example (of course) is the movie "Rear Window" . . .