Customer Reviews

One Step Beyond 4-DVD Set

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I bought this set in a big box store somewhere, never having seen "One Step Beyond" the first time around. But knowing that "Twighlight Zone" was something I loved viewing on the SciFi Channel I purchased this - and LOVED IT!

There is something slightly more mannered yet weird in the production. There are many famous young faces. The stories are based on "true account" and in this it has a slightly tabloid feel.

Watching it a year later - I again loved it. That tells me it is a good DVD investment. I would take the risk if you've never seen "One Step Beyond" but enjoy the age and the genre.

I am a "One Step Beyond" fan for sure, but I was disappointed by this release. There are 12 episodes on a two-sided disc, but the quality of the DVD content is poor. The source material appears to be transferred from an old VHS tape. The opening and closing credits are incomplete as well. In the middle of the ending credits, it pauses and jumps to the next episode. True classic television purists will find this unacceptable. However, the Miracle Pictures release of "The Veil" is not like this.

I remember watching this series with my Dad "way back when". I was just in awe...the Twilight Zone premiered soon after it but this was the first TV series to delve into the paranormal. Dad and I watched it together again. We both still loved it!

Six months ago, I would have given this set a four star rating with no reservations, happy for what we OSB fans could get, usually nothing more than bad transfers through Mill Creek, etc. I decided to finally add my thoughts to the review of this product now because, as Christmas comes up, people may be looking for gift ideas. This is okay, and it has a good assortment of episodes from the series (20 episodes), but if you are looking for a gift, do put the extra bucks out and get the official first season. This seems like such a good deal, I know, but the prints are very, very rough - I would go so far as to say that a couple of the episodes are unwatchable -, and it's really, now, only something I'd watch in a real pinch. I know $40 for the official release seems like alot for DVDs now, but the clean up job on the episodes is absolutely staggering, and whoever the lucky recipient is of the official set will keep it, take care of it and appreciate it. If you can still only swing this version, here are the eps included: "Vanishing Point", "Dead Ringer", "Open Window", "Gypsy" (The Robert Blake episode), "To Know The End", "The Vision", "The Riddle" (really rough transfer), "The Lovers" (awful transfer, wrong credits), "The Sorcerer", "The Dark Room", "The Aerielist", "The Return of Michael Campion", "The Peter Hurkos Story, Parts 1 and 2", "Goodbye Grandpa", "Where Are they?", "Encounter" (unwatchable), "Executioner" and "The Explorer" (again, transfer so bad, unwatchable). Hope this helps out someone trying to decide on a Christmas gift!

This is a great video. It's like the twilight zone with a twist-they are true stories. Would reccommend highly, great price too.

These DVDs are absolutely terrible! I can't believe they are being sold with such poor quality. I can barely see the picture or make out images. Disgraceful!!

I would suggest watching these DVDs on an old style TV as if you watch them on a wide screen (like an LCD/Plasma/etc) it has terrible quality.

This program reminds me of Unsolved Mysteries which aired two or three decades later and was a documentary with a narrator speaking to the viewer and showing them pictures. This program takes unsolved mysteries of the early 1900s and adds fictional filler to make a dramatization of what the characters might have done. I am giving it four stars because the script writing is not as good as in Twilight Zone.