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Poor Quality
While the episodes from One Step Beyond are classic and wonderful, the quality of the videos themselves is quite poor. If the orignal film had dirt on it scratched, or there was a break in it, those effects showed up on the video. The sound at times dragged. The fading in and out scenes were handle in an abrupt manner and not in a smooth flowing fashion. It's a real shame that the company that produced this video set didn't do a better job. I was truly disappointed.

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Good Vintage Show, Mediocre Videotape Quality
This is a box set of five videotapes/forty episodes (eight episodes per tape) of the vintage television series, "One Step Beyond" hosted by John Newland. For those of you who are too young to remember, "One Step Byond" was an anthology series somewhat in the same vein as the "Twilight Zone" but focusing more on psychic and/or occult phenomenon allegedly based on true occurences. As one might expect, these true(?) stories were dramatized for television. "One Step Beyond" was a good show and a worthwhile addition to any horror/sci-fi video collection. However, I rated these episodes as two stars because of the poor quality of the videos. These videos are standard play (SP) mode but this did little to enhance the quality. The videos are not remastered or enhanced at all. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however, the original film print often suffers from dirt, scratches, spots, and age. The fade-ins and fade-outs are sometimes "choppy" presumably from editing or mishandling by local televsion stations while in syndicated reruns. Overall, I am glad I purchased this set. It is watchable and better than nothing. However, I think "One Step Beyond" deserves respect and a much better treatment than "Bridgestone Multimedia" (the manufacturer) has given it.