Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 William and Mary
- Season 1 The Down Car
- Season 1 The Sisters
- Season 1 Button, Button
- Season 1 I Heard You Calling Me
- Season 1 The Croaker
- Season 1 False Face
- Season 1 Dissolve to Black
- Season 1 Death Wish
- Season 1 The Overnight Case
- Season 1 Hush, Hush
- Season 1 Side Show
- Season 1 Soft Focus
- Season 1 20/20
Way Out
6.30 25 minutes 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.
