![]() But think everyone might be interested in Serling episodes like: Rod Serling and THE TWILIGHT ZONE are not central to my viewing, either. I’m sure it’s only coincidence, but what a neat connection that is! (And maybe there is a story behind it.) Serling either, and I’ve never watched any of his various shows, including THE TWILIGHT ZONE.Ĭoincidence, or not, Virginia Leith and Skip Homeier play brother and sister in Black Widow a 1954 film just released on Blu ray. ![]() Truth be told, Michelle, I’m not a big fan of Mr. John Newland simply oozed charisma where Serling talked down to his audience all the time. The series is fabulous, well-acted, and the writing is light-years above the level of Rod “The Sledgehammer” Serling. You fellows must have watched a different set of episodes from the ones I saw recently on Decades. Mostly it was a toss away series, weird, but seldom memorable save for Newland. They also did a semi documentary episode about LSD that is fairly well remembered. The episode I recall more than any other was based on the British writer who wrote the novel THE TITAN which predicted the Titanic with eerie accuracy, but I may remember it best because of the presence of Patrick McNee. But one thing the series does have going for it is a long list of interesting guest stars that appeared on it over the years. I have no desire to obtain and/or watch more than a bare handful of episodes any time soon. The falling rock episode is “Where Are They?” (1960).Ī little of the paranormal goes a long way with me also. He’s part of the huge talent pool available to TV and film of that era. Maybe there are some real gems lurking in the show! So I’m just not a fan.Īll this said, have only seen a small fraction of the series. The episodes seen also seemed like weak tea, with rather dull storytelling and direction. I vaguely recall an episode about rocks falling from the sky (paranormal event). Believers in the paranormal might like this better. It’s like a long commercial for the paranormal. The narrator constantly tries to sell us on the idea that paranormal events and powers happen in the real world. I’ve seen a handful of episodes, off and on since I was a little boy.Įach episode seen is based on the “paranormal”. I watched this one on Amazon Prime, but various episodes have been available in different collected sets of DVD over the years.ġ9 Responses to “A TV Review: ONE STEP BEYOND “The Bride Possessed” (1959).” It was up to the host at the end to conclude this first episode’s story line.Įxcept for the little I’ve read about it, I know nothing about the rest of the series - it was on for three seasons and some 96 episodes - but from the accounts of others, this episode seems to have set the tone for the series rather well. One regret I had in watching it was how abrupt the ending was. That the story is as effectively chilling as it is is due to entirely to Virginia Leith’s convincing transformation from one woman to another and yet in the same body. ![]() Neither her husband (Skip Homeier) nor her doctor know what to make of this until they find the murder weapon. The theme is that of possession of a living person by the dead, in this case a young bride (Virginia Leith) on her honeymoon who suddenly begins to channel the being of another young woman who has recently committed suicide by jumping from the edge of a cliff into the sea below.īut it was not suicide, the young bride insists in Leith’s new role in the story, it was murder. “The Bride Possessed,” the very first episode, is a good example. The stories on OSB were presented as “fact” and were purportedly based on real events. The big difference between the two shows is that the stories on TTZ were fictional (and almost always with a twist at the end) and did not pretend otherwise. In dealing with strange and unusual events in the world around us, there are some similarities between One Step Beyond and the much more well-known series The Twilight Zone, but OSB came along first. Virginia Leith, Skip Homeier, Harry Townes, Ann Morrison. ONE STEP BEYOND “The Bride Possessed.” ABC, 20 January 1959.
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