One Step Beyond (TV Series) Justice (1961) User Reviews

"Well, there's been a murder alright!"

[classicsoncall · 6/10 · 5 February 2015]

Series host John Newland must have had a penchant for these stories involving bilocation; this is the third one I've seen in a short period of time. There was episode #1.15 'The Aerialist' along with #2.11 'Dead Ringer', both of which had someone apparently appearing in two places at once. This story is another variation on the theme, as an elderly gentleman (Meredith Edwards) actually confesses to a murder, brings a local constable to the scene of the crime, and then mysteriously disappears. Later in the story, he brings the authorities to the location where he buried the murder weapon. The more bizarre aspect of this tale emerges when the man has a church full of witnesses claiming he'd been dozing at services in the first instance, while the authorities catch him asleep at home during the second, once again after he suddenly vanishes. Newland surmises to the audience that the man's 'weight of conscience' created a situation whereby the killer teleported during his sleep and manifested in corporeal form long enough to be visible and have a conversation with those investigating the murder. All rather bizarre of course, with a conclusion of the man eventually being hung for murder. This one qualifies as more than just a single step beyond.

One Step in Great Britain

[wes-connors · 4/10 · 14 March 2010]

In a South Wales coal-mining valley, not so long ago, police constable Clifford Evans (as Josh Jones) suspects Meredith Edwards (as Wyndham Roberts) has murdered a young woman. Even Mr. Edwards believes he committed the crime. He's confessed, and brought Mr. Evans to find the body. But, members of his church swear Edwards was in chapel during the entire time the murder could have occurred, dozing during the sermon… This episode's direction and atmospheric location footage is distinct, but the story isn't anything to write home about. and, it looks like it was "teleported" from a British anthology series.

**** Justice (3/7/61) John Newland ~ Clifford Evans, Meredith Edwards, Barbara Mullen, Pauline Jameson

Can't keep it secret anymore

[kapelusznik18 · 5/10 · 12 April 2014]

****SPOILERS*** While attending Sunday services in his South Wales town banker Wyndham Roberts, Meredith Edwards, just couldn't keep his eyes open at the windbag minister's sermon and just conked out and fell asleep. As it turned out Roberts seemed to have teleported himself some 1 1/2 miles away where he ran into local constable Josh Jones, Clifford Evens, whom he not only confessed to a murder that he committed, of a local woman, but led him to her body as well. With the shocked constable Jones about to arrest him for the crime Roberts disappeared from sight and was later found sound asleep at the church with the minister and some dozen whiteness's swearing that he never left the place while he supposedly confessed his crime to constable Jones!

Not knowing what to make of all this constable Jones' boss superintendent Rees, Ewan Roberts, feels that he's been working too hard and needs a vacation or a stay at the local sanitarium to get his head back together. Feeling that he's all right and saw and heard what he did the local police checked out constable Jones story and sure enough he was proved right. But it now had him being the prime suspect not Roberts in the woman's murder!

***SPOILERS*** It was the guilt ridden Robert's conscious that in reality made him confess to what he did. That while he was asleep not awake. Having an affair with another woman would have ruined his reputations as an upstanding citizen in the community. And to hide that fact Roberts murdered her and hide her body not realizing that his guilt would soon catch with him. It did in a way that he or contemporary sciences never expected. Through being in two places at the very same time one asleep and one fully awake. And it was while awake that he admitted his guilt that he soon ended up paying for.