Also known as The Mud Monster Created by Art Wallace Directed by Noel Black Director Noel Black Final episode date 27 January 1978 Location Canada | Genre Supernatural drama Written by Art Wallace Starring Granville Van Dusen First episode date 27 January 1978 Network CBS Cast Granville Van Dusen | |
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Similar Kids Don't Tell, Jonny's Golden Quest, Child in the Night, Murder Ordained, Memories of Me | ||
The world beyond 1978
The World Beyond is the second of two pilots for an occult detective television series. The first pilot, The World of Darkness, also starring Granville Van Dusen as Paul Taylor, premiered on Sunday, April 17, 1977. The World Beyond followed as a sequel on CBS Friday, January 27, 1978.
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Premise
Sports writer Paul Taylor (Granville Van Dusen) died while undergoing a surgical procedure but was retrieved from the brink of death. His brush with "the world beyond" allowed the dead to communicate with him and ask him to help a living person.
The World of Darkness
Dead for two minutes and 37 seconds following a motorcycle accident, Paul Taylor hears ghostly voices that draw him to the New England town of Woodvale. Taylor becomes involved in supernatural activity surrounding the Sandford family, whose recently buried patriarch was an apparent suicide.
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The World Beyond
Taylor finds himself on a remote Maine island whose inhabitants are being menaced and killed by a golem made of mud and sticks.