AATV Classic Theater#14 One Step Beyond "The Night of April 14th"

AATV Classic Theater#14 One Step Beyond "The Night of April 14th"

Night of April 14th" John Newland Collier Young / Larry Marcus January 27, 1959
A woman has a nightmare that her fiancé dies by drowning. The next day he announces that the couple will honeymoon aboard the Titanic.

Created by Merwin Gerard and produced by the prolific producer Collier Young, the program was hosted by John Newland, "your guide to the supernatural." Newland presented tales which explored paranormal events and various situations that defied logical explanation. Unlike other anthology programmers, this ABC network series episodes were presented in the form of straightforward thirty-minute docudramas, all said to be based on true events. Initially, the program included the corporate name of the sponsor Alcoa as its full title.

Among its varied tales, One Step Beyond dealt with premonition of death ("The Lincoln Assassination") and disaster ("Tidal Wave", "Night of April 14th"); astral projection ("The Long Call"); the existence of ghosts ("The Last Time"); and wildly improbable coincidence ("The Glider", "Death on the Mountain", etc.). In one episode dealing with the discovery of mind-altering drugs, circa 1960, Newland traveled to Mexico, where he met with a local shaman who was an initiate in ritual use of magic mushrooms. The then-unknown mushrooms were purportedly able to increase the user's psychic powers. On camera, the TV host ingested several mushrooms and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast.^[3]^{Many not-yet famous actors appeared in these production, including
Elizabeth
Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Warren Beatty, Christopher Lee, Robert Blake, and Pernell Roberts.
A total of 96 episodes were filmed.^{[4]
This 30 minute DVD with AATV's Exclusive Open Captioning}} Item #130

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