Old-School TV: One Step Beyond- The Night of April 14th

We're back with more TV that is possibly older than your Parents.  A couple weeks back, I found a whole bunch of Episode Compilations Discs for the Show.  As best I could tell, someone had donated an entire 12-Disc Set of the Show to the Store!  No, I didn't buy all 12- especially since someone already had already bought Disc 1 anyhow!  The reason I didn't buy all of them- besides the fact that they were $5 a Disc- was that the Episode Set I already have is not in any remote order.  In other words, I may have one Episode on Disc 5, one on Disc 2 and two on Disc 9.  With that in mind, I was pretty selective.  So when one of them was literally built around a date that was coming up, I picked it.

With all of that needless exposition out of the way, let's take...

This Episode is about people having premonitions about things they shouldn't know.  This Book is important too.

A woman is engaged to be married, but starts having dreams of drowning.  That's not good.

Her fears are amplified when their honeymoon to Switzerland is changed to a boat ride to America...on the Titanic!!!

She tries to ignore her dreams, but they keep coming.  She manages to enjoy the time before though.

Nothing bad ever happened to this boat- no sir.

Our Host- and Director- returns to talk about other people dreaming of the Titanic, including a Pastor and some Painter (right out of The Shape of Water too).

Yeah, you know what happens to this boat.

In the aftermath, the woman is saved by Patrick MacNee is killed.  That whole bit about 'them telling you to the Story' earlier is a bit of a cheat, eh John?

Oh and the Book is one written 20 years before the incident in April that talks about a similar Boat sinking.  Dun dun dun?  The End.

Hopefully this April the 14th will be better!  The Story here is pretty simple- in fact, it is too simple.  Even this Show gives up on it to focus on the Pastor, the Painter and two random guys on the boat.  Yes, the pair anchor the Story- pun fully intended- but never quite fill it out.  That said, it is well-acted and Patrick MacNee was always great.  This one scores points for commitment, even if it just has a bunch of coincidences to back it up.  It is silly, but endearing and heartfelt.  Ah, the good old Days of 3 Channels and no Kardashians.  Even better, they had very clear corporate sponsors that sure do stand the test of time...

Another simple, yet interesting Episode.  Even if you don't buy into any of this, they seem sincere in trying to sell it.