AATV Classic Theater#16 One Step Beyond "The Vision"
This episode of ONE STEP BEYOND is "The Vision", Season 1 Episode 10 First Aired 3/24/1959
on ABC Television.
Anthology series are always a hit or miss. They usually depend on the producer’s ability
to ensure a steady quality from one unrelated episode to another. The
Twilight Zone has proved to be one of the best and most enduring in doing so, while One Step Beyond stays relatively obscure, even though they’re practically
identical in format, with host John Newland stepping in to bookend each episode with soliloquies not unlike Rod Serling’s. He even opens with a kindred mantra: "What
you are about to see is a matter of human record. Explain it, we cannot. Disprove it, we cannot. We simply invite you to explore
with us the amazing world of the unknown. To take that One
Step Beyond." The catch is, it made its on-air debut 10 months
before The Twilight Zone. The main difference between them is that—and I believe this is why Serling » -
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