'Way Out 

A new drama in the macabre genre was broadcast each week hosted by Roald Dahl.

Stars:

Roald Dahl, Richard Morse, George Turner

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Roald Dahl	...	Himself - Host / ... 10 episodes, 1961

Storyline

A new drama in the macabre genre was broadcast each week hosted by Roald Dahl.

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Plot Keywords:

usa horror host | usa male horror host | male horror host | horror host | two word title | 

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 March 1961 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Television Network

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Show's official title ('Way Out) actually begins with an apostrophe, to indicate that it is short for Away Out.

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Quotes

Roald Dahl: I have a maiden aunt in Norway who was actually rolled out of bed onto the floor three nights running, by a ghost. But then she lives in what was once a very old trysting place. About 400 years ago, they bricked up a naughty girl in the wall of that room: that sort of thing always produces a ghost. If your wife is extremely delicate, and you tickle her to death, that will produce a ghost, too - so you have to be careful. We have another one for you next week at the same time. Good night and ...

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Connections

Featured in Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown (1994)

User Reviews

Look Out for Way Out

This certainly would make a nice DVD box set. Actors and crew on this show are a who's who of Television in the 1960's. I've only seen 5 episodes all were odd in the best sense of the word and none of these five sound like the best of the series even.

The show features eerie electronic music in part by Robert Colbert who went on to to Dark Shadows and The Night Stalker. Title sequence of hands sticking up like trees out of sand is also memorable.

The show, like Roald Dahl's fiction, has heavy doses of dark dark humor, so much so that it's hard perhaps to call it horror but also hard to accept as just comedy either. This sets it apart from the lighter comedy episodes of other fantasy shows of that, or any, era, and perhaps left a mass TV audience confused and abandoned. It certainly had a good lead in time slot right before Twilight Zone and would make a nice lead in to those shows.

So it's too bad, though maybe not too much of a surprise, that the show didn't catch on. Someone bring these to DVD to be rediscovered as they deserve to be. Seems like a show ahead of it's time. Looks to have been shot on video, though copy I saw was so murky it was hard to tell.