Paul Richards and Jean Allison play Will and Carol Janson, a married couple who come home one night arguing about various things that later seem inconsequential, as Will later angrily storms out of the house and drives off, only to crash his car when a hill collapses in a mud slide, trapping him with said twelve hours to live, as Carol desperately tries to convince the authorities that he is in danger, because they don't believe her claims of psychic knowledge of his fate, so she must set out to find him herself, which is exactly what she does. Fine action in this one, even if there are few real surprises, this is still entertaining.
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A good one, but, needed a little better conclusion!
b_kite28 October 2016
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Episode 5 starts with Will Jansen (Paul Richards) and Carol Jansen (Jean Allison) driving home one stormy night. The two fuss and fight the whole way and when they get home, Carol slaps Will and he leaves. While sitting in his car on the side of a cliff, a mudslide sends Will trapped in the earth below. While nervously waiting for her husband to return Carol begins to have strange connections to Will, can they help her find him in time...?
I thought this one was pretty good, it has a good story that keeps you entertained for the 25 minutes, and even tho you know she is eventually going to find her husband you cant help, but, route for them when she finally does. "SPOILERS" My problem however is that the story pretty much ends with Carol and the police officer finding Will and then that's pretty much it. I felt I could have felt better about the characters if they were to have put 1 minute more in this show of the wife and husband reconciling, but, for all we know he could have died in her arms. Overall, it still was a good episode with the two lead actors doing a good.
I thought this one was pretty good, it has a good story that keeps you entertained for the 25 minutes, and even tho you know she is eventually going to find her husband you cant help, but, route for them when she finally does. "SPOILERS" My problem however is that the story pretty much ends with Carol and the police officer finding Will and then that's pretty much it. I felt I could have felt better about the characters if they were to have put 1 minute more in this show of the wife and husband reconciling, but, for all we know he could have died in her arms. Overall, it still was a good episode with the two lead actors doing a good.
Will is hurt and needs help....but you probably won't care.
planktonrules19 May 2018
Following a meeting with a prospective client, Will Jensen (Paul Richards) is in a foul mood...and he's taking it out on his poor wife. Carol (Jean Allison) is a bit of a doormat...and when Will stomps off, Carol blames herself and begins to worry. Soon she starts thinking that her husband is in trouble and needs help....but when she goes to the police, they naturally think she's a bit of a nut. Little to they know that she really does have ESP and Will really is close to death.
There one big problem with this episode of "One Step Beyond"....the message to women seems to be to love your man even if he treats you like trash. I just didn't care whether or not Will was in trouble...he seemed like a terrible person and I don't know why his wife got so worked up about him. Combine this message, a character you dislike and a female character who seems, at times, rather goofy, and you've got the recipe for a subpar episode of an otherwise decent series.
There one big problem with this episode of "One Step Beyond"....the message to women seems to be to love your man even if he treats you like trash. I just didn't care whether or not Will was in trouble...he seemed like a terrible person and I don't know why his wife got so worked up about him. Combine this message, a character you dislike and a female character who seems, at times, rather goofy, and you've got the recipe for a subpar episode of an otherwise decent series.
Twelve Hours to Live
Prismark1010 June 2021
Will Jansen (Paul Richards) and Carol Jansen (Jean Allison) are a quarrelling couple who are returning home after a stormy night out in more ways than one
When Will drives off in a fit of anger, his car plunges down a cliff and he lies injured.
With Will desperate for assistance but alone. Carol seems to have strange sense that her husband is in serious danger.
Carol is determined to get the police involved and even has an idea where her husband might be.
The host does not want to answer if this was a case of telepathy. It certainly alludes to some kind of extrasensory perception.
This is very much a routine story which back in the late 1950s might have come across as otherworldly.
When Will drives off in a fit of anger, his car plunges down a cliff and he lies injured.
With Will desperate for assistance but alone. Carol seems to have strange sense that her husband is in serious danger.
Carol is determined to get the police involved and even has an idea where her husband might be.
The host does not want to answer if this was a case of telepathy. It certainly alludes to some kind of extrasensory perception.
This is very much a routine story which back in the late 1950s might have come across as otherworldly.
Ye Ol' stuck in the mud
kapelusznik1831 January 2014
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Storming out of their specious mansion after the old lady of the house Carol Jansen, Jean Allison, put her husband big shot attorney Will Jansen, Paul Richards, down in what a stiff he is both in the courtroom and in bed he got in his car and drove off a cliff in a heavy rainstorm. It's later when Carol got her head together that she realized that her hubby was in serious danger even though she couldn't quite put her finger on what exactly the danger was.
Going to the local police to file a missing person report on her husband the cop in charge Sgt. Cooper, Douglsas Kennedy, feels that will will pop up at any moment alive & well. The fact that Will was up to his nostrils in mud pinned under his car never registered in Sgt. Cooper's head. That's until a determined Carol convinced him that her husband is in very serious danger in that he somehow communicated a massage to her via mental telepathy. And that massage was "Landmark" which made no sense to Sgt. Cooper at all. But it did to Carol who knew that's the place, the shut down "Landmark Diner", where her husband had met a fate worse then death if help didn't get to him on time!
One of the earliest "One Step Beyond " episode that pre-dated the far more popular series "The Twilight Zone" by some six months. Not much of a story in it's been done many times before and after but good enough to keep your interest even though the so-called surprised ending was telegraphed to you almost as soon as the episode started.
Going to the local police to file a missing person report on her husband the cop in charge Sgt. Cooper, Douglsas Kennedy, feels that will will pop up at any moment alive & well. The fact that Will was up to his nostrils in mud pinned under his car never registered in Sgt. Cooper's head. That's until a determined Carol convinced him that her husband is in very serious danger in that he somehow communicated a massage to her via mental telepathy. And that massage was "Landmark" which made no sense to Sgt. Cooper at all. But it did to Carol who knew that's the place, the shut down "Landmark Diner", where her husband had met a fate worse then death if help didn't get to him on time!
One of the earliest "One Step Beyond " episode that pre-dated the far more popular series "The Twilight Zone" by some six months. Not much of a story in it's been done many times before and after but good enough to keep your interest even though the so-called surprised ending was telegraphed to you almost as soon as the episode started.
Meh
mcintoshalyssa2425 December 2021
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Why are we suppose to show sympathy to a dude who treated his wife like garbage? I mean even after he gets rescued. In the end There's no "Honey, I'm sorry I was a jerk. I'll do anything to make it up to you." Or "you're right I was the one behaving like an idiot." 🤔
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