

'Way Out
1961 · CBS · 30 min · 1 season
S01E14 · 20/20
Fri, 14 July, 11:30 pm
About
'Way Out (note that the on-screen title begins with an apostrophe) 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.
Episodes
- E01
William and Mary
Sat, 1 Apr· 30 minA bullying husband allows his brain to be kept alive after his demise to irritate his wife, but she may have the last laugh.
- E02
The Down Car
Sat, 8 Apr· 30 minAt the importing firm of Ventry and Bayle, John Ventry has apparently committed suicide. Mr. Bayle recalls in flashbacks how auditors found that John Ventry has been guilty of embezzling from the firm's bank accounts. But Mr. Bayle is about to learn that partnerships are not so easily dissolved.
- E03
The Sisters
Sat, 15 Apr· 30 minThe day after Louise wishes her overbearing sister Harriet dead, Harriet falls off the cliff behind their home and dies. Louise is delighted with her new freedom to date her neighbor Paul, but her sanity cracks when she finds evidence that Harriet's ghost has paid her a visit.
- E04
Button, Button
Sat, 29 Apr· 30 minThe commanding officer of an underground military bunker must decide whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike after all communications with the outside world suddenly cease, even though he doesn't know if the country has actually been attacked. Complicating matters is a mysterious sergeant, new to the unit, who seems to know much more about each man in the bunker than he should, and is pressing the officer to launch the strike.
- E05
I Heard You Calling Me
Fri, 5 May· 30 minWhile a pretty blonde waits for a phone call from her lover to tell her where to meet and pickup plane tickets to America, she begins to receive threatening phone calls from a woman who tells her that she will not be allowed to break up her lover's marriage. The hotel's phone operator insists that these calls were not placed through her switchboard.
- E06
The Croaker
Fri, 12 May· 30 minA mischievous boy who allows pets to escape, then earns a reward for returning the animals, meets Mr. Rana, a strange new neighbor with an affinity for frogs - so much so that the man has created a frog pond in his own bedroom.
- E07
False Face
Fri, 26 May· 30 minA stage actor playing Quasimodo in a performance of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' pays an alcoholic homeless man with a severely deformed face to model for him. After a successful opening night, the actor discovers that he is unable to remove his make-up.
- E08
Dissolve to Black
Fri, 2 June· 30 minAn actress who has been hired to play a murder victim in a film finds herself fighting for her life after she's trapped in the studio with a bizarre night crew.
- E09
Death Wish
Fri, 9 June· 30 minWhen an unhappy man decides to kill his annoying, television-obsessed wife, he discovers there's a funeral home that offers a special service for people like him.
- E10
The Overnight Case
Fri, 16 June· 30 minA woman has recurring nightmares where she dreams she has woken up but her husband is a stranger who calls her by an unfamiliar name, as people and places keep shifting around her--and she never knows when the dream is over.
- E11
Hush, Hush
Fri, 23 June· 30 minProfessor Lydecker develops a means to use sonic waves to induce a state of perfect tranquility in any brain; he uses it to turn his shrewish wife into a docile and devoted partner who turns violent when things disrupt her peace of mind.
- E12
Side Show
Fri, 30 June· 30 min - E13
Soft Focus
Fri, 7 July· 30 min - E14
20/20
Fri, 14 July· 30 min
Cast

Roald Dahl
Host







