Way Out (1961)

Way Out was a 1961 fantasy and science fiction television anthology series hosted by writer Roald Dahl. The macabre 25-minute shows were introduced by Dahl's dry delivery of a brief introductory monologue, sometimes explaining a method of murdering a spouse without getting caught. The taped series began because CBS suddenly needed a replacement for a Jackie Gleason talk show that network executives were about to cancel, and producer David Susskind contacted Dahl to help mount a show quickly. The series was paired by the network with the similar The Twilight Zone for Friday evening broadcasts, running from March through July 1961 at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, under the primary sponsorship of Liggett & Myers. Writers included Philip H. Reisman, Jr. and Sumner Locke Elliott. The premiere episode, "William and Mary", adapted from a Roald Dahl short story, told of a wife getting revenge on her husband. In "Dissolve to Black", an actress cast as a murder victim at a television studio goes through a rehearsal, but the drama merges with reality as she finds herself trapped on the show's near-deserted set. Other dramas offered startling imagery: a snake slithering up a carpeted staircase inside a suburban home, a disembodied brain in a jar, a headless woman strapped to an electric chair, with a light bulb in place of her head and half of a man's face erased.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    William and mary

  • 1x2

    The down car

  • 1x3

    The sisters

  • 1x4

    Button, button

  • 1x5

    I heard you calling me

  • 1x6

    The croaker

  • 1x7

    False face

  • 1x8

    Dissolve to black

  • 1x9

    Death wish

  • 1x10

    The overnight case

  • 1x11

    Hush, hush

  • 1x12

    Side show

  • 1x13

    Soft focus

  • 1x14

    20/20

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