The Lovers

A whimsy of old Vienna, and possibly the silliest episode of 'One Step Beyond'. A beautiful young waitress feels sentimental about a retired postman who spends his days in her café, and she takes him to meet her family, who are less than impressed.

Whether or not by coincidence, a poltergeist also seems to disapprove of the match, and starts moving objects around the room in a very unmistakable way, every time they try to kiss.

This being Vienna, he naturally visits a psychiatrist, who tells him that no poltergeist has ever been known to change its behaviour, so he/they may be facing a lifetime of these disturbances. The ending is the most unlikely part of an unlikely story (though I suppose some might call it romantic), but it cannot be revealed here.

Otto Becher is not well-cast; he looks much more like a doctor or a professor than a postman. And there is a rather irrelevant piece of business about his admission to a retired postmen's hostel that just gets in the way.