Joanne Linville stars as a successful businesswoman named Karen Wadsworth who unfortunately has a violent temper that she comes to believe is responsible for a series of deaths with people who angered her for various reasons, but not in a physical way, but purely with the power of her mind, as the old adage "If Looks Could Kill" takes on a new meaning. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist, but he cannot believe in anything psychic, and his efforts to convince her otherwise fail utterly in a most unexpected way... John Newland appears at the end to hear the case in person. Pretty good tale is put across convincingly.
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"The world turns dear, if you can't hang on, step off gracefully".
classicsoncall22 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Obviously, fashion design executive Karen Wadsworth (Joanne Linville) couldn't take her own advice as stated in my summary line. This episode of 'One Step Beyond' explores the idea of death by auto suggestion, a malady that afflicts a woman who believes she first willed a person to die when she was only seven years old. The story opens with Miss Wadsworth hysterically confronting her therapist, who tries to persuade the woman that she's constructed a 'guilt bridge' between two unconnected events, someone's accidental death and her dark thoughts about that person. The most recent event had another designer in her employ actually fall out of a window when challenged for going over Miss Wadsworth's head on a company matter. I thought it was a little over the top to have Joyce Chapman (Linda Lawson) herself go 'over the top' as it were, almost comical in the execution because come on, who falls out of a window by accident? Actually, it happened in one of the Twilight Zone episodes now that I think about it, one that had to do with a camera that recorded pictures before an event took place. Well, the title says One Step Beyond; just watch that first step, it could be a doozy.
Strange ep
bobforapples-4014621 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The opening shot from is surprisingly not repeated ( at least not in any version I saw). Also, why was Joyce described as not very attractive when she was a beauty. The ep is surreal to be sure. It has little sense of actual time. Was this one really based on some sort of true story? What true story? Other eps in the show are obviously more easily and obviously based on real life than this one.
Newland appears at the end as usual and he mentions an analogy of some seeds being planted some loved and some cursed by the human planters. The curse ones never flourished while the loved ones did. You figure out the rest of the analogy.
Newland appears at the end as usual and he mentions an analogy of some seeds being planted some loved and some cursed by the human planters. The curse ones never flourished while the loved ones did. You figure out the rest of the analogy.
Death Wishing
wes-connors28 June 2009
Hysterical dress designer Joanne Linville (as Karen Wadsworth) thinks she can cause a person's demise, simply by wishing they would die. She tells doctor John Kellogg (as Llewellyn) about how she wished a bitchy "not very attractive" co-worker dead; but, Mr. Kellogg thinks the simultaneous death of Linda Lawson (as Joyce Chapman) was a coincidence. Ms. Linville's next death-wish victim succumbs mysteriously; still, Kellogg thinks Linville's perceived powers are superstitious nonsense. After an argument, Linville surprises her doctor with one last wish
Obviously, Linville ("COronado 9") and Elizabeth Taylor ("BUtterfield 8") have some sort of mutual admiration.
***** Moment of Hate (10/25/60) John Newland ~ Joanne Linville, John Kellogg, Linda Lawson
***** Moment of Hate (10/25/60) John Newland ~ Joanne Linville, John Kellogg, Linda Lawson
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