One Step Beyond: What a blast!

[Michael]

I'm enjoying the Alpha One Step Beyond 12 DVD box set...before you say it, I know the quality is not up to par by any means...that mentioned, what a great series! Anyone have any favorite episodes? I find them all quite entertaining! IIRC, there was a compact disc of the original soundtrack music...can't recall the label?

[rmos]

IIRC, there was a compact disc of the original soundtrack music...can't recall the label?


Taragon Records.


Look here:


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003H7P/qid=1106009173/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/104-6132627-5263964?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

[Michael]

Thanks for the link Chris.:)

[stereoptic]

You can hear the theme here (http://www.cv.org/fantomas/originals/index.php)

[Michael]

You can hear the theme here (http://www.cv.org/fantomas/originals/index.php)

Thanks Donald! I'm playing it now...How wonderful!...the wife and I have been having a One Step Beyond marathon the past few days.:)

[Frank G]

My memory is a little iffy, but if I remember correctly, there was one about people in the swamps coming to a cabin to look at a jar of stuff, one thing of which was the guy's wife's head. And there was the one about the earwigs that ate their way through a guy's head. That one really made me laugh. It was one helluva series, that's for sure.

Frank G

[Michael]

My memory is a little iffy, but if I remember correctly, there was one about people in the swamps coming to a cabin to look at a jar of stuff, one thing of which was the guy's wife's head.
Frank G


Hi Frank, Your thinking of Alfred Hitchcock Presents...the episode your referring to is "The Jar" with Pat Buttram of "Green Acres" fame.:) I remember it like it was yesterday...It gave me the creeps back in 1964! Scary!

[Mike Dow]

Wow! I haven't thought of that show in years, Michael. When I was a kid, the Canadian station (we lived on the border) would air "One Step Beyond" every Saturday morning. That's a very trippy show when you are in your formative years! :) I'll have to try to find those DVDs. Thanks for the information!

[Michael]

Wow! I haven't thought of that show in years, Michael. When I was a kid, the Canadian station (we lived on the border) would air "One Step Beyond" every Saturday morning. That's a very trippy show when you are in your formative years! :) I'll have to try to find those DVDs. Thanks for the information!


...word of warning...they are nowhere near the quality of the current TV DVD's such as the TZ, Lost In Space, etc...fair VHS quality is pushing it! It's like watching a bad antenna connection in 1959! (well maybe not that bad!)...ya know what? I don't care, just happy I can watch them today with my wife and have a great evening together watching TV.:) I don't foresee a future DVD remaster of One Step Beyond since most episodes are now in the Public Domain...

[billdcat]

Does anyone this ring a bell for anyone.

I remember as a kid seeing a TV show where a young boy goes into a magic shop with
his father. The owner tells the boy he will teach him some tricks.
He places the boy into a cabnet and makes him disappear.

The upset father tells the store keeper to return his son,
grabs for him across the counter, only to have the man crumble
like clay in his hands... and then from there the story starts to get creepy.

Does anybody know what show this was? Alfred Hitchcock? One Step Beyond?
? ? ?

[stereoptic]

Thanks Donald! I'm playing it now...How wonderful!...the wife and I have been having a One Step Beyond marathon the past few days.:)

You're quite welcome. It sure is a creepy little theme. I used to watch One Step Beyond repeats at 11PM on weeknights when I was in high school. I liked the show so much, I kept my own log of each episode! It made it more frightening when you believe that they are "true" stories. I can still picture the one wear this woman has a premonition about a plane crashing into her house. :eek:

[bencasey]

Great show. My favorite is The Clown with a very young Yvette Mimeux. I agree that since the show is mostly PD the chances of a legitimate release are non-existent. Too bad as this show is maybe a half step below TZ and not many shows can say that.

[thxdave]

Hi Frank, Your thinking of Alfred Hitchcock Presents...the episode your referring to is "The Jar" with Pat Buttram of "Green Acres" fame.:) I remember it like it was yesterday...It gave me the creeps back in 1964! Scary!

You are exactly correct, Michael, except I thought it might have been Chill Wills or Slim Pickens. I remember that episode very well especially the final tight shot of the jar's contents. IIRC, the jealous wife smashed the original jar since the locals paid more attention to it than to her and she wanted to punish her husband. The final scene of the show was a tight shot of the slowly swirling contents of his "new" jar. The locals are again trying to figure out what he has inside the jar and as they watch it move, the ribbon that she always wore in her hair (had her name on it) becomes visible.....flipped me out when I was a kid.

[Steve D.]

That sure was Gene Autry's sidekick and Green Acres hick Pat Buttram in the "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" episode of "The Jar". CBS Feb. 1964. Pat left us in 1994.

[stereoptic]

I did a quick internet search, and I see that "The Jar" was one of the episodes that was resurrected in the early 80's version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I remember some of these new episodes, but I don't remember The Jar. The 80's version starred Griffen Dunne and was directed by Tim Burton!