For Xmas I received THE VERY BEST OF ONE STEP BEYOND which includes 50 episodes. Quite a bit to handle. Are there any episodes that you knowledgeable Mobians would recommend watching first? Thanks in advance!

I never saw many episodes of this, but I would tend to lean towards episodes with good guest stars. I don't know which episodes are on the Mill Creek box, but "The Promise" stars William Shatner, Christopher Lee was in "The Sorcerer", Charles Bronson played a boxer in "The Last Round", "Gypsy" stars Robert Blake, Joan Fontaine and Warren Beatty are in "The Visitor", Jack Lord stars in "Father Image", Mike Connors and Yvette Vickers are in "The Aerialist", and "The Vision" has Pernell Roberts (a few months before BONANZA debuted).

I liked the Shatner episode ("The Promise") quite a bit, and remember "Where Are They?" and "The Burning Girl" but would heartily recommend "Vanishing Point" with Ed Binns as a top-choice episode (provided of course it is included in the set!)

This may not help, but I haven't seen a bad episode out of the 7 or so I've watched in the last couple years. I agree, "The Vanishing Point" is memorable, and would add a few I've seen more recently, "Ordeal on Locust Street" and "Moment of Hate". Of course, the "true casebook" sell is a lot of hooey, but most of the stories are near enough to plausible and played straight enough (without a certain other show's pretensions toward significance) that they work a little closer to the bone.

Thanks for the recommendations guys! I opted to watch "The Last Round" and "Vanishing Point" last night and guess what? The disc they were both on doesn't work. ARGH! So instead I watched "On April the 14th," a Titanic premonition story starring Patrick Macnee, and "Delusion" with a very young Suzanne Pleshette. The Titanic one was okay, but "Delusion" was an excellent episode about a blood donor who can sense what is going to happen to the people who get his rare blood type.