The Next Step Beyond - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesJan 5, 1978 - Apr 1, 1979
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
Tsunami
On the West Coast, an autistic 12-year-old boy is the only person aware of an approaching tidal wave, but how can he communicate this critical information to all those in danger?
Jan 5, 1978
Season 1Episode 230 min
The Return of Carrie DeWitt
Oct 8, 1978
Season 1Episode 330 min
Possessed
A couple desperate to save their marriage embark on a doomed road trip. As they drive over a dam, wife Caroline is suddenly possessed by the spirit of a dead Hispanic woman. Her husband and the authorities are confounded by the event, but the possession has a purpose: dead Maria Robles wants to prove that her husband, incarcerated in the local jail, did not murder her.
Oct 15, 1978
Season 1Episode 430 min
Love Connection
Oct 22, 1978
Season 1Episode 530 min
Ondine's Curse
A man suffering from Ondine's Curse, a rare condition which mimics death, is left for dead after an encounter with a violent hitchhiker. His wife, the only person aware of his strange condition, utilizes her psychic abilities to locate her husband before he is laid to rest.
Oct 29, 1978
Season 1Episode 630 min
Dream of Disaster
A pregnant woman has fierce, violent nightmares of a plane crash in which a Cessna 172 goes down and crashes into her room. Her husband, an air-traffic controller, comes to believe her premonition as real-life events unfold just as she foresaw. He moves her to a motel for safety - but that shift of location could be the very catalyst which triggers the disaster.
Nov 5, 1978
Season 1Episode 730 min
Ghost Town
A fashion model inexplicably experiences a vision of murder, unaware that what she is witnessing is a crime more than a quarter-century old.
Nov 12, 1978
Season 1Episode 830 min
Drums at Midnight
An angry would-be heir resorts to voodoo and witchery to get her share of the wealth when she learns that her young stepmother is the main beneficiary of her dead father's enormous estate. The would-be heir finds, however, that the black arts are not to be trifled with.
Nov 19, 1978
Season 1Episode 930 min
Portrait of the Mind
When apprehended for the robbery of a liquor store, an innocent ex-con must depend on the psychic abilities of a police artist who can draw the psychic impressions left behind in the subconscious of the robbery eyewitnesses.
Nov 26, 1978
Season 1Episode 1030 min
Other Voices
Upon his return home from a party, a man has a powerful premonition of a drunken party-goer murdering his wife. Hoping to prevent the act of murder, Walter acts on his unusual precognition.
Dec 3, 1978
Season 1Episode 1130 min
A Matter of Pride
A powerful hypnotic suggestion implanted before his last fight plagues down-on-his-luck boxer, Manny Guzman, and may be the only thing that can save a young diabetic from certain death.
Dec 10, 1978
Season 1Episode 1230 min
Ghost of Cellblock Two
A fifty-year-old murder and a vengeful spirit play roles in this unusual mystery about a young woman, mistakenly arrested, who finds herself in a haunted prison cell.
Dec 17, 1978
Season 1Episode 1330 min
The Legacy
The ghost of a dead railroad worker utilizes his grandson's highly-detailed toy railroad cars and diorama to pinpoint to authorities the exact locations where a ruthless criminal plans to derail trains.
Dec 24, 1978
Season 1Episode 1430 min
Cry Baby
While her husband is away for a weekend at a "back to nature" seminar, Susan Elston is cornered in their isolated mountain home by an intruder bent on rape. At the seminar, Susan's husband hears the persistent cries of a baby-the cries of the as-yet unborn child in Susan's stomach-calling him home to help his wife.
Dec 31, 1978
Season 1Episode 1530 min
Greed
The Barlows, a financially troubled couple, face a future of bankruptcy, creditors, and debt. Forced to stay in a run-down hotel, the Barlows are shocked when a story that could solve all their problems materializes on Phil's typewriter. The story concerns two brothers, the Whittakers, who succumb to greed and corruption in their mountain search for gold.
Jan 7, 1979
Season 1Episode 1630 min
Out of Body
When Susan Lambert is found murdered in the mountains, her fiance Randall Priest is arrested and tried for the crime, even though he insists he was far away, meditating, during the incident.
Jan 14, 1979
Season 1Episode 1730 min
Key to Yesterday
Following his father's death, a young man named Daniel reopens a theater closed nearly 30 years earlier. The establishment once belonged to Daniel's father, and it could be the key to solving a murder committed long ago. As Daniel grows more intrigued by a psychic vision, he learns that adultery is the least of his father's sins.
Jan 21, 1979
Season 1Episode 1830 min
Woman in the Mirror
A man who has gotten away with the murder of his wife sees justice finally reach him each time he looks in a mirror. He is finally undone by his guilty conscience.
Jan 28, 1979
Season 1Episode 1930 min
The Haunted Inn
A lost traveler receives directions to a nearby inn from a beautiful woman in a flowing white gown.
Feb 4, 1979
Season 1Episode 2030 min
The Pact
A gypsy prophecy from the distant past continues to haunt three siblings, even after twenty years. But is the prophecy actually a self-fulfilling one?
Feb 11, 1979
Season 1Episode 2130 min
Sin of Omission
In the upstairs bedroom of their newly purchased house, Diane Hollis hears the cries of a child in pain. Diane believes she is going crazy, but soon she and her husband both witness apparitions in their living room.
Feb 18, 1979
Season 1Episode 2230 min
Thunderbolt
A freak storm spurs a shared premonition of death for two very different individuals.
Feb 25, 1979
Season 1Episode 2330 min
The Confession
A man is convicted of murdering his wife, but he knows he is innocent - despite a persistent mental fugue which seems to confirm his guilt. As events snowball, the man realizes he may be witnessing the mental confession of the killer.
Mar 4, 1979
Season 1Episode 2430 min
Trance of Death
After a freak accident during a karate class, Sharon Weaver begins to develop powerful psychic abilities - abilities which come in handy when the daughter of a friend finds herself in deadly danger.
Mar 25, 1979
Season 1Episode 2530 min
To Fight a Ghost
A lonely woman is desperate for closure after three years of worrying about her husband, an archaeologist missing and presumed dead in Venezuela. When she is attacked in the park by an ex-student, Cathy LeMasters gets her answer at long last, and the spirit of her husband comes to her defense.
Apr 1, 1979
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