The crew of a 19th century sailing ship on its way to Boston takes an unexpected course alteration into the supernatural as the set upon course, which is written in chalk on a board, keeps being erased, and a new destination is put in its place. This angers the ship's older captain, who clashes with his younger first mate, who is secretly spying on him for the company. The mystery appears solved when a stowaway is discovered on board, and arrested, but when the ship finally does arrive at this destination, the crew discover shipwreck survivors, and a most unsettling truth about their unknown stowaway... Interesting nautical episode.
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Lost at sea
kapelusznik186 February 2014
***SPOILERS*** "One Step Beyond" episode that was ironically broadcast on the 57th anniversary of the sinking of the "Titanic" on April 14, 1912 has to do with passenger ship the "Flying Eagle" hitting an iceberg off the coast of Greenland and sinking with all but a half dozen men on board. It just happened that the navigator of that doomed ship somehow got in touch with the near by "Try-Port Queens" and steered it toward the lifeboat where the survivors were and ended up rescuing them. As for the navigator, Olan Soule, he died from exposer hours before and some 100 miles away from the "Try-Port Queen" where he was seen writing the directions in the ship's logbook to steer it to save it's surviving passengers?
It's the "Try-Port Queen's" Captain Peabody, Robert Ellenstein, who had first suspected that his first mate Walter Blake, Don Dubbins, wrote the directions to send the ship northward thus taking it off it course on its way to Boston. But when finding the mystery man, the "Flying Eagle" navigator, hiding in the below deck compartment he realized that Blake was completely innocent of the charges that he lodged against him.
The kicker to this entire bizarre tale is that the navigator was alive and on deck of the the " Try-Port Queen" for some four hours after he was already dead and on the lifeboat with the surviving "Flying Eagle" passengers! With all these strange happenings it was better for both Captain Peabody and first mate Blake to keep that fact to themselves. If they didn't they'd both be deemed insane and put away in a mental institution for the rest of their lives!
It's the "Try-Port Queen's" Captain Peabody, Robert Ellenstein, who had first suspected that his first mate Walter Blake, Don Dubbins, wrote the directions to send the ship northward thus taking it off it course on its way to Boston. But when finding the mystery man, the "Flying Eagle" navigator, hiding in the below deck compartment he realized that Blake was completely innocent of the charges that he lodged against him.
The kicker to this entire bizarre tale is that the navigator was alive and on deck of the the " Try-Port Queen" for some four hours after he was already dead and on the lifeboat with the surviving "Flying Eagle" passengers! With all these strange happenings it was better for both Captain Peabody and first mate Blake to keep that fact to themselves. If they didn't they'd both be deemed insane and put away in a mental institution for the rest of their lives!
A calling from unknown!!!
elo-equipamentos5 May 2019
I'm suspicious to write a review on this priceless series hosted by John Newland, l believe in such things gonna happen everywhere, in this fantastic episode a ship has sailing to Boston on a cold sea, suddenly someone changes his early route without notice, the first mate in charge to keep the ship on right direction call the old Captain to tell about it, both doesn't have a proper friendly conversation, in fact the first mate was contracted by the Shipping Line to make a report over strange delays on last Captain's travels, they try find who did change the route, a stowaway is founded at ship's hold and put in chains, back on deck they heard someone calling, they put a boat to keep track the cry for help, they finally find a rough raft with several men, the survives and a dead man were brought back to the ship, but when the Captain and the first mate face the dead man they were shocked with so similarity with the stowaway, back on the hold the arrested man is no longer holds there, just the empty chains, this facts assure that has some spiritual forces among us, this series exposes it in every episode such true, but the mostly human being weren't able to believe yet...but the time is coming....
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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5
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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5
A Stranger In The Ocean
telegonus23 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The Navigator is an above average and way more atmospheric than usual One Step Beyond entry, and it features an outstanding cast headed by Robert Ellenstein and Dun Dubbins. As episodes in the series tended to be indoorsy it was nice to see one set largely outdoors, even as it was all filmed on a back lot.
In the 19th century a stowaway is found aboard an American ship in the north Atlantic, and the captain and his by the book company man first mate disagree as to what to do with the man. Rules and regulations as to how the best deal with this unusual situation are discussed and disputed, while the stowaway himself is mute and keep in chains.
In the end a strange thing happens, as a raft containing some members of the crew of another ship that had recently sunk, on which the stowaway, we soon learn, had been navigator, is discovered. All men are saved; all, that is, but the navigator, who is the same man as the stowaway, only now he is dead.
As this man had written directions as to where the ship should sail it seems that he was by some mysterious process transported from the ship that sank to the other ship. When the first mate, understandably rattled, goes down to the hold of the ship to see if the stowaway is still there, he has vanished.
Neither the captain nor his first mate have a clue as to why all this happened, aside from that fact that it saved the lives of a few men. A good sea yarn, the events are discussed by the show's dapper, seemingly unflappable host John Newland after the story is over. He does a good job of it, and I'd love to knows where he and his staff found dug up such odd stories. Diaries? Ripley?
In the 19th century a stowaway is found aboard an American ship in the north Atlantic, and the captain and his by the book company man first mate disagree as to what to do with the man. Rules and regulations as to how the best deal with this unusual situation are discussed and disputed, while the stowaway himself is mute and keep in chains.
In the end a strange thing happens, as a raft containing some members of the crew of another ship that had recently sunk, on which the stowaway, we soon learn, had been navigator, is discovered. All men are saved; all, that is, but the navigator, who is the same man as the stowaway, only now he is dead.
As this man had written directions as to where the ship should sail it seems that he was by some mysterious process transported from the ship that sank to the other ship. When the first mate, understandably rattled, goes down to the hold of the ship to see if the stowaway is still there, he has vanished.
Neither the captain nor his first mate have a clue as to why all this happened, aside from that fact that it saved the lives of a few men. A good sea yarn, the events are discussed by the show's dapper, seemingly unflappable host John Newland after the story is over. He does a good job of it, and I'd love to knows where he and his staff found dug up such odd stories. Diaries? Ripley?
The Navigator
Prismark104 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The old captain of a 19th century sailing ship is suspicious of his first mate when the ship's course changed for several hours.
First Mate Walter Blake does have something to hide. He is a spy sent by the shipping company. Captain Peabody has had mishaps in several of his previous sailings.
A stowaway with a piece of chalk is later found. That stowaway seems to have altered the course on the chalk board.
Later the ship picks up some survivors of a sunken ship. The dead navigator looks just like the stowaway.
A nautical tale with no rationale explanation unless you go one step beyond.
The story starts with the captain and the first mate at loggerheads and you think there will be a mutiny. Later it makes reference to the Titanic disaster as the ship encounters ice nearby. It was just that someone was keeping them safe.
First Mate Walter Blake does have something to hide. He is a spy sent by the shipping company. Captain Peabody has had mishaps in several of his previous sailings.
A stowaway with a piece of chalk is later found. That stowaway seems to have altered the course on the chalk board.
Later the ship picks up some survivors of a sunken ship. The dead navigator looks just like the stowaway.
A nautical tale with no rationale explanation unless you go one step beyond.
The story starts with the captain and the first mate at loggerheads and you think there will be a mutiny. Later it makes reference to the Titanic disaster as the ship encounters ice nearby. It was just that someone was keeping them safe.
Good story but....
dmullen-5655019 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
As with all episodes of One Step Beyond there is absolutely no evidence of any of the stories bring other than urban myths and dramatic licence. Although there have been ships with names identical or similar to the ones in this episode there is no account of such a rescue. The same applies to all the other episodes including the '14th April' sinking of Titanic . It would be nice to imagine some basis in fact for this series but sadly there is very little and often none. Check the details of any episode in the records and decide for yourself.
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