One Step Beyond (TV-1960) THE EXPLORER S2E26

Mind-bending series hosted by John Newland, your guide to the unknown! Based on true, supernatural events that defy scientific explanation, this show appeals to fans of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
THE EXPLORER: Three lost explorers wander aimlessly in the desert, their low water supply presaging death. Suddenly from nowhere, a man appears and offers to lead them back to civilization.

[@chantellenew2331]

As a child, I say this on TV when it first aired. It made such a profound impression on me. I talked about it into my 60's. Thank you for bringing it back to me. God bless

[@KNT.63]

@ Chantelle New I hope you see this I'm in my 50s so I didn't get to see this when I was young but there are some that have stuck in my mind that I have saw over the last couple years so I can understand what you were talking about I love these shows most black and white shows now I see why my mother always watch those black and white movies I guess they're called film nors I wish she were here , for me to tell her how much I love them now or I could watch them with her the black and white Gunsmoke Dragnet. Wagon Train actually any show I can think of that has black and white and then went to color the Black and Whites are better every time

[@KNT.63]

Chantelle New I guess I kind of got off track I still got to watch this one that you were talking about but I still understand because there's two or three one was about the Titanic another one was about a raccoon that talked under a kitchen sink because it was possessed and one was about a clown that couldn't talk that helped a pretty blonde woman I feel like I will never forget those I could actually say it a couple more and it's really been a long time since I've watched them not as long as you're talkin about but I can understand I don't think I will ever forget them thank you for the pleasant comment and God bless

[@fjccommish]

My great great grandkids were around 10 when this first aired. i watched it with them. They loved it.

[@Rick-zh4ir]

One Step Beyond REUNION S2E10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/epCQl3dujZibf6c

[@chantellenew2331]

@Robert Gardea it was/is a girl thing, I think.

[@SwedeProof]

Extraordinary series & terrific episode! We've been binge-watching for days, and completely engrossed. With sincere appreciation, thank you for the gift of "One Step Beyond."

[@occultustactical6138]

I watched every episode without fail. I was 12 years old when the series began.

[@internetcensure5849]

You mustn't have understood a thing.

[@jannisares]

I could binge watch this series for days on end.

[@hulaimatuconnor6280]

I have recently started watching OSB and I can’t stop watching it. It reminds me of the twilight Zone with similar suspense leaving you mind wandering the possibilities of life beyond.

[@user-bj5gs4eq2r]

It's definitely a vibe.

[@georgecobble5688]

I have watched " One Step Beyond " episodes time and time again...

[@mrs.g.9816]

What I like about One Step Beyond is that it can be scary, suspenseful and thought-provoking without being really disturbing. I watched an episode of the New Twilight Zone the other night, "Toys of Caliban". It's on KZbin if anyone's curious. I should have never watched that so close to bedtime! But I binged-watched three episodes of OSB, including this one, last evening - no problem.

[@Dan.D.Lion.Wishes]

I'm going to go watch it and although it's a sunny morning I fear I'm about to get scared!😨

[@mcfalinbon]

Thanks for the old TV programs I use to watch

[@michaelsinski8997]

The host John Newland has an uncanny resemblance and mannerism as the late 'Great' Vincent Price. In view of the above, the One Step Beyond stories are very similar to the ones l read many years ago, as a child, in the Amazing Stories, Tales of the Unexpected and Out of this World american comic/magazines.

[@patriciahayes7315]

I'm sure the show's writers drew on many sources for their scripts. :)

[@Lolabelle59]

One of my favorite episodes of one of my all time favorite shows. Thank you for uploading.

[@rext8949]

A deep craving or wish can make miracles possible. Brilliant !

[@SuperIliad]

“The Explorer,” Season 2, Episode 26, aired 15 March 1960. Gregory Morton as Dr. Einar Hansen, Eddie Firestone as Gus, Jeremy Slate as Eric Borgner, Bert Convy as Prof. Andersson, John Wengraf (as John E. Wengraf) as Felix Borgner, Edith Evanson as Martha Borgner, Rudolph Anders as Dr. Heinrick Swansen, Ralph Helfer as Hassim, John Newland as himself-Host.

[@christrinder1255]

The Vikings have until recently been vastly underrated as war mongering thugs, and not the world explorers they really were! Not only them but there were no ‘dark ages’ it’s just that here in the west wood was the only considered tool for carving which decayed , and there was no written word only symbols but their wonderfully skilled decorated and intricate jewellery proves differently! The human world is millions of worlds older than thought and each year science is pushing back time!

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

They just found lead door handles stuck in bits of coal carbon dated over 300 million years ago. They can't explain it.

[@patrickhorvath2684]

@@ghostcityshelton9378 Artifacts found in coal. Kept off the radar. Tooling , ornamental bells, cups, utensils, metallurgical compositions that dont exist in modern alloys. It's simple. Earth has seen civilizations come and go in it's long history. We are not the first. There is no new thing under the sun.

[@internetcensure5849]

There were no "dark ages". The definition ecompasses a period of post-Roman civilization, starting in the 14th century. And written texts existed in Europe, well before that.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“I understood for the first time that I didn't understand what I thought I understood”― Seiji Ozawa.

[@davidsnyderWisdomTrollBlocker]

this episode and the episode the Mask should be watched back to back....Both storys center around the desert and ancient History.

[@DavidKutzler]

I actually watched this episode when it first aired in 1960. I was nine-years-old. I don't know why this story stuck with me, but I recognized it from the first scene.

[@internetcensure5849]

You mustn't have understood a thing.

[@DavidKutzler]

@@internetcensure5849 At that age, I was considered to be a bright, but odd, child who amused himself by reading volumes of the family encyclopedia cover to cover. I spent most of my adult career delivering babies.

[@Brucev7]

A really good episode. Peace

[@christrinder1255]

Loved the integrity of Lawrence of Arabia and have a great interest in archeology, and although I despise some, am also interested in human nature and unexplained mysteries, so this episode was very compelling! Thank you so much for posting 👏👏👏👏👍😊

[@janbadinski7126]

I only recently found this program so I've been binge watching it until I have to stop for one reason or another. Love it! Looks like I have to catch up on the rest of the series.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Have been told more than once I'd been seen places and at times when I knew I was home asleep. Now, hmmm . .

[@CarschA]

Some people can momentarily view parallel dimensions where our other selves experience lives parallel to our own.

[@onyxblak-roses6957]

Maybe you have a doppleganger

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

Mental teleportation...In the Army & government they used people who had the ability to 'see' and draw what they saw even though the places they saw were miles & miles from where they were discribeing them from.

[@davehallett3128]

HOW D YOU GET OVER THERE????

[@elijah8466]

@@ghostcityshelton9378 Check out Annie Jacobsen's book, "Phenomena". About the CIA's doing research/experiments on "remote viewing".

[@mikekennedy4572]

I haven't seen this episode since the 1960s. This one still gives me chills.

[@droberts8703]

This is why I started to be a fan amazing episode

[@genkatqltr8517]

When Eric appeared, the other men were sunburned, sweaty, and had scruffy heavy beards. Eric didn't, especially the beard. Tip-off that Eric wasn't exactly what he seemed.

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".

[@Dan.D.Lion.Wishes]

🕵🏼 *Excellent Observation!*

[@nancyhowell4505]

@@Dan.D.Lion.Wishes Thanks! 🙂

[@christopherbako]

Amazingly written and produced!!

[@inganorden1816]

Gregory Morton, the actor portraying Dr. Hansen, was one of those performers whose face you recognize but the name escapes you. He was in many popular TV shows such as Perry Mason, Columbo, The man from U.N.C.L.E and other. In Perry Mason he was a law enforcement officer. Just a tidbit of (probably useless) info.😮

[@DavidRice111]

I was amused to discover John Newland playing the part of "Algie" in "13 Lead Soldiers", a 1948 Mystery starring Tom Conway as 'Bulldog Drummond'.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Stranger than fiction, indeed! Good one. Thank you

[@lamodernista]

Another great episode...thank you, PizzaFlix!

[@conniecrawford5231]

The same actor who played the son played the union captain in the series episode “The Executioner” about the ghost dog !

[@davidcouch6514]

About this time he was in “The Aquanauts.”

[@debbieellett9093]

My favorite so far! I stumbled across this series by accident. Have been binge watching sense!

[@joelee662]

This episode is amazing I believe we can all do this it's called astral travel it's when you lay down go to sleep we come out of our bodies and we explore things . Only one problems some of us don't go back into our Bodies we become locked out you have to set a time within yourself to get back in. Say someone comes in and sees your body they actually think your dead so they call police that was called to save your life they removed the body thinking you're dead now when you come back you don't know what happened to your body. No you become EarthBound believe it or not it was ahead of its time this movie 👍🇺🇸

[@christopherbako]

@Joe Lee...Just curios. Have you experienced the ability to make decisions in dreams?

[@orange70383]

You're never locked out, that strand of silver is always attached while we're alive.

[@Duckman75]

Astro Projection.

[@JoseAguilar-zm4gk]

The look on Ericks face when the guy said he drank all the water😂

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".

[@richardnogan4579]

Enjoying watching this till this day. Tku for post.

[@rehab5355]

Many Great Actors were groomed during these old Episodes...with the Great Directors Producers and Creators of the Times!

[@billiewilson5197]

Real good storyline 😱🤷🏾‍♀️🙋🏽

[@marccolten9801]

One of my favorites. I, too, have traveled the world in my mind in books with people like Richard Halliburton. Just never traveled in spirit. would have loved to

[@haroldwilkes6608]

The mind is a wonder filled place to live...

[@speedracer1945]

Jeremy Slate was the leader of the film , the Born Losers. The first Billy Jack movie

[@matthewferguson7084]

I think when they met Eric was an inspiration for a Far Side comic and when they find the well an inspiration for a scene in Three Amigos

[@myriaddsystems]

That was a simple story- but very moving...

[@timklein3962]

A young Bert Convey; and Eddie Firestone always pops up on shows like this !!!

[@sharonsmalls6846]

When Gus wanted to leave on the first night, God forgive me, I said let him go. I would have let him follow the camel.

[@georgescarlett2320]

WHAT???????????????????

[@david-pb4bi]

I was thinking exactly the same

[@christosvoskresye]

I'm not sure his odds would really be any worse.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

I would have tried to follow the camel as well. It is a dessert animal and might have senses on finding food & water in a dessert that we humans don't have.

[@trevormiles5852]

That is why they hobble the horses and camels when out in an adventure. sso they can be free to graze but not go far.

[@kevmodee1866]

The question remains, did Eric's spirit travel to assist the doctor and his team after his body expired? Or could it have been a case of astral travel; of which is believed to be done during times of sleep or unconsciousness? It's believed that more often than not, our souls are not experiencing some sort of make believe fantasy thoughts while sleeping, but actually traveling through and experiencing parallel existences. I've always loved these shows, as even during childhood, they can stimulate the thoughts.

[@orange70383]

He was still connected to his body by that strand of silver hanging in the sky, it touches more than you know.

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".

[@josuebueno6767]

Wooow this story was the best gave me the chills......wooooow thats a good one...

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

It kind of proves one important thing...we ALL are 'sprites' that have been placed in our bodies. Think about it, then think about when our bodies 'die' we leave them and go on, like one long, long journey maybe. Maybe sometimes we may be given a mission by maybe a 'higher power' ( I like to call God) to help someone in distress, maybe in mental or physical...who knows. Has anyone ever thought back to a time in their childhood or of some past event and 'seen' that picture in their minds from a point of view they couldn't have seen , like being above yourself looking down, seems impossible but that's the way you see it in your minds eye? It's hard to explain but I hope that might help how this story came about.

[@tenhirankei]

I can think of a logical explanation of how Eric died of thirst in his bed at home with a pitcher of water within reach. The pitcher of water had been moved out of reach (by his parents). But put back when he was too weak to reach it and it was too late to have done him any good.

[@cavalier4049]

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[@cavalier4049]

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[@tenhirankei]

@@cavalier4049 I hate these nonsensical replies. Is that in a cipher?

[@cavalier4049]

@@tenhirankei hahaha I can see why you might think that's a cipher😂 but please believe me it's nothing as nefarious as that. What really happened is I watched that show and in a wave of nostalgia I went to comments to see what other people of that era might be thinking...and fell asleep! No more, no less. If you hadn't responded I'd have never known it happened. that

[@tenhirankei]

@@cavalier4049 I didn't say anything about "nefarious". Just incomprehensible.

[@3D6Space]

Overuse of the music theme doomed this show, but I still love it! Thanks for posting!

[@izmark671]

10:03 the music startles you and the closed captioning types in "goosebumps" with perfect timing ...how clever, even the simplest of AI, a word generator, going 'One Step Beyond.'

[@TommygunNG]

Relying on millennia-old intel for the location of a well? "Well, thousands of years ago there was an Ice Age. So we should have no trouble finding water."

[@evervigilant]

How else would he get the name and address of Eric's father?

[@franperez4663]

Thank you! Liked!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Thanks, I tried eating popcorn while watching this but had trouble swallowing.

[@alanfaulkner6329]

Brilliant story.

[@shellyscolaro7422]

Great episode 👏

[@jonglewongle3438]

I think that the returned expedition leader conferred and consulted with the bed-ridden young Eric prior to the desert expedition, tapping Eric for his his geography and archeological wizardry. His two cents - his ten cents is free - sort of thing. Maybe even undertook the expedition as a dedication to the deteriorating Eric. Word gets back that seven of the party of ten got back and 3 were presumed missing. The body of the native guide is found, deducted as a presumed desperate water fight. Eric is depressed with the news. Refuses to take his water. Some of Eic's pre-expedition deliberations pay off, tenuously or otherwise. It was Eric's expedition.

[@randywiggins1248]

Nicely done.

[@mohavea66]

I started watching this around 4:30 or 5:00 am while i was getting ready for work.Use to give me the creeps.I watch One Step Bepyond 24/7

[@internetcensure5849]

If you were a working age, and it gave you "creeps", then there was something wrong with you.

[@mohavea66]

@@internetcensure5849 First time watching it was spooky episode. Nothing wrong with me.

[@shoshiwas]

Eric played by James McArthur (son of the noted actress Helen Hayes)

[@jreyas6263]

That actor is Jeremy Slate.

[@menamajors7295]

J Reyas, you're right again. He was on Bonanza too. So happy to see people comment who know the facts.

[@bradstevens5264]

A great true story.

[@eckankar7756]

I always found Jeremy Slate (Eric) so handsome. I wish he had a better film career.

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".

[@jonglewongle3438]

An extremely productive lounge room gathering. Much closure to be had. But nevertheless, someone must have left something out, because, as it is, this is tougher than the Mary Celeste. No date given for the desert expedition, because however simultaneous was that with Eric's demise in Hamburg might have been important, at least as far as spooking up the mystery goes.

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".

[@shauncampbell969]

Who's watching this in the year 2536

[@jandasalovich6469]

What a show!

[@dr.skulhamr3220]

"May I smoke?" "Which end of you is on fire?"

[@janicesmith2475]

I have never seen this episode! Thought I saw them all.

[@seriagungnurastarlight]

I love it😊

[@hmu958]

May I smoke? Oh yes please do. Such simpler more refined times.

[@tommiesmith3191]

Also liked "Journey to the Unknown" a few yrs. later.

[@josuebueno6767]

Wooow good gave ne the chills.....

[@hammadoolass]

I LOVE JOHN NEWLAND

[@reginakasakevics7891]

I believe there is a such thing sometimes as soul travel.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Funny i don't see him to often but before i watched this i watched dragnet and eddie Firestone was in both shows.

[@BoydWaters]

A Clifford Simak short story has a similar theme;

[@grantjohnston5817]

Of the senses.The five windows that light the caverned Man.W.Blake.

[@joematus410]

Love you

[@droberts8703]

Beautiful harp

[@centralmexicodogsanctuarya4590]

Way powerful story.

[@SC-jh9qp]

People die from dehydration in nursing homes very often.

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

"May I smoke?" "Please do", she replied. Was this the last time such words allowed in a dialogue for television?

[@jeffmayo2439]

Man-O-Man..i sure am thirsty !

[@moosefactory133]

For what it is worth, I just noticed something. The desert scene in this episode is the exact same one in the desert scene The Mask.

[@TheFewzz]

................................ in the twilight zone

[@pattytanur3321]

Magnificent

[@johncole8501]

Top old movies ,

[@fromthesidelines]

Originaly telecast on March 15, 1960.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Isnt that the guy who starred in the original Flight Of The Phoenix as the engineer airplane designer?

[@davidcouch6514]

Gus was Chuck in “Duel”.

[@Necrodius]

irked he didnt say "one step beyond" the mapmakers lol

[@imaboygenius]

The actors all now gone, but they have conquered death themselves, in a sense, as evidenced here.

[@barryamato101]

I remember when it first came out. I though it was a knock off of the Twilight Zone. Until I watched an episode then I got hooked.

[@upthedownescalator630]

This came before TW I believe

[@matthewferguson7084]

How can a tent protect you from heat? Anyhow I love this series, good acting not a narcissistic self aware fashion show like today

[@waynebender7720]

Story sounds like astral projection or also call a outer body experience.

[@waynebender7720]

@Redblade Because the young man so much time in his head and used his imagination. Imagination is a powerful tool. It wasn't about the desert. It was the men who were exploring the region. He so much wanted to explored with his hero. That was able to leave his body. Remember he was bed ridden. This was his escape from the illness and the bed. It's our own limitations prevents us from doing more.

[@teresahooks3746]

No one in the comments section says anything about Burt Convey being in this episode or was I the only one who noticed?

[@trevormiles5852]

hahaha all these years, I thought he had said.... OH your so handsome , not oh Dr. handson. lol

[@markjaycox8811]

I have done the same exact thing while dreaming. I have projected my conscious will into the dream, and the dream mirrored my action by projecting a dream me into physical reality. A.I. is from the dream because the dream and our thoughts are manufactured by the engines called "spinning Jenny's" in the air we breathe. You think 2021 makes the air keeping you alive and with thought when you know the ground has been there with air over it for 4,600,000,000 years, which means what you think and what you know are strangers. The fact of where you stand-on ground there for 4,600,000,000 years, is nowhere in your 2021 moment. You are not conscious of fact because you do not measure fact, you measure the feed-2021-being fed to you. 2021 is not there because tree's are there 5,000 years and they are fact, which means 2021 is not fact, which means 2021 is an "illusion" and when you measure an "illusion" you have the "illusion" of MIND. You are not conscious you are not conscious. You are formed that way on the document proclaiming you have reached an age. It is void of that age-0-your missing link. Your brought space, aka, your akashic record. Your ZERO YEAR is MISSING from your memory , and that YEAR REMEMBERS all your other years, so that is why you hold paper making you as conscious as Frankenstein- alive with no age! Total control from day one because you never asked the question: What year of my life am I in on day one? Aren't I alive in a year every moment of my life? How can I be conscious if I am not conscious-0-of beginning by making my Zero Birthday Card? When no void is forming you, no void exists, and when no void exists, neither does EARTH or the UNIVERSE. Outside our Dome is the Moon's surface, the real world Neo.

[@orange70383]

Your consciousness comes when it is time, before that is only instinct yet you are then still very much alive although your consciousness is still waiting.

[@markjaycox8811]

@@orange70383 you become conscious when you measure yourself-0-as becoming conscious. No ZERO- no consciousness.

[@TV_Bucks78]

That Peter Chushing?

[@orchidlilly7518]

Thank-you a gazillion Pizzaflix*

[@AndrewVelonis]

Astral projection.

[@INDYOSKARS]

Leif Ericson (Leifur Eiríksson), Leif is pronounced as Layf not Leaf.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

When you see Eric... a commenter below stated that when you see Eric he looks like a young man, no facial hair....not like he'd been in the dessert long when you think about it. AND .....WHERE DID HE GO?

[@internetcensure5849]

Eric was a killer, shooting a fleeing "native".