This video is about premonitions of the sinking of the Titanic. As with all the stories in One Step Beyond, it is adapted (and therefore distorted) from real-life incidents, so we can't test its accuracy. That is unfortunate, because no event in history has ever tempted so many people to fabricate colourful accounts of their part in a popular legend - after the event, of course.
But one account certainly passes the test. An Englishman called Middleton, booked on the maiden voyage, dreamed of a shipwreck two nights running, and cancelled his passage. The present version, possibly referencing Middleton, gives us the poignant story of a honeymoon bride (the lovely Barbara Lord) having a similar dream, also two nights running, and having to be calmed-down by her groom, the soon-to-be-famous Patrick Macnee.
From there, the plot does not really move forward until the sudden farewell, when he has to watch her being lowered into the lifeboat, so some other, less convincing stories have to be bolted on to fill-up the 25-minute ration. Only one of these might count as a tested case.
An obscure little novel published a few years ahead of the event appeared to forecast the sinking in remarkable detail. Although the dimensions of the vessel and the passenger capacity might be easy to guess at, and the name Titan not too surprising for a great flagship, the collision with the iceberg itself remains the most startling prediction, since it was virtually unheard-of for a ship to be sunk in this way.
In among the generally lacklustre dialogue, we hear the word 'unsinkable', for which the White Star Line has been unfairly blamed through the years. This could actually be traced back to just one reporter who judged (wrongly) that the new bulkhead-design had rendered the ship "virtually unsinkable". But the word still hung in the air afterwards, to be pointed back accusingly at the management of the line.
Finally, I'm glad that the editors did not include the word 'Titanic' in the title, as it has been used too often to make up a catchpenny phrase. 'Night of April 14th' is much more subtle, while still putting out a suitable masonic-type signal to flag-down dedicated Titanic buffs.