Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond • ABC
CHARACTER: Eric Borgner
EPISODE: The Explorer (#2.26)
AIRDATE: 15 March 1960

CHARACTER: Captain Adams
EPISODE: The Executioner (#3.15)
AIRDATE: 3 January 1961

SERIES DESCRIPTION: John Newland introduces reported cases of supernatural phenomena, whose poetry is revealed in magnificent and almost brutally compressed dramatizations. This series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories with supernatural twists and turns, this program sought out 'real' stories of the supernatural and re-created them for each episode. No solutions to these mysteries were ever found, and viewers could only scratch their heads and wonder, "what if it's real?"

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond was filmed at MGM Studios, Hollywood, and at MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Herts. All 30 minute episodes are directed by Newland himself, a dab hand whose trademark is subtle, balletic camera work.