This is a remake of 'The Return of Mitchell Campion' from twenty years earlier, in the previous series 'One Step Beyond', also hosted by John Newland. It is hard to see why they bothered, as this is an even more obscure version of the story of a man (Cary de Witt) who is declared dead after a big operation, but suddenly revives, to the puzzlement of the doctors.
Once again, he is advised to go abroad for a good rest, and somehow arrives at a remote tropical island where everyone mysteriously recognises him. Once again, he is inexplicably punched in the face by a local man, whose motives are totally unexplained. But unlike in the earlier version, he is made highly unwelcome, and told to go home on the next flight. The only person vaguely familiar to him is the lovely Tiara, whose forthcoming marriage to the son of a prominent local family was apparently interrupted by his romance with her on his previous visit. And the key to the mystery is explained away only as 'Teleportation', presumably a new word for Astral Projection, while the story is claimed to be "based on an actual investigated and documented case-history of psychic phenomena" - of which we are allowed to hear not one detail.
This version lacks all the charm and intrigue of the original, much of the dialogue being drowned-out by the over-loud music track. It helps to explain why this later series 'The Next Step Beyond' lasted less than a year.
Once again, he is advised to go abroad for a good rest, and somehow arrives at a remote tropical island where everyone mysteriously recognises him. Once again, he is inexplicably punched in the face by a local man, whose motives are totally unexplained. But unlike in the earlier version, he is made highly unwelcome, and told to go home on the next flight. The only person vaguely familiar to him is the lovely Tiara, whose forthcoming marriage to the son of a prominent local family was apparently interrupted by his romance with her on his previous visit. And the key to the mystery is explained away only as 'Teleportation', presumably a new word for Astral Projection, while the story is claimed to be "based on an actual investigated and documented case-history of psychic phenomena" - of which we are allowed to hear not one detail.
This version lacks all the charm and intrigue of the original, much of the dialogue being drowned-out by the over-loud music track. It helps to explain why this later series 'The Next Step Beyond' lasted less than a year.
