The World Beyond
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.
Premise
Sports writer Paul Taylor 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.Plot
Taylor finds himself on a remote Maine island whose inhabitants are being menaced and killed by a golem made of mud and sticks.Cast
- Granville Van Dusen as Paul Taylor
- JoBeth Williams as Marian Faber
- Barnard Hughes as Andy Borchard
- Richard Fitzpatrick as Frank Faber
- Jan Van Evera as Sam Barker