Powerful

i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

An action-packed slog

I haven't seen all episodes yes, but the ones I have are satisfyingly creepy. Incidentally, many full episodes are available on Youtube.

More creepy than The Twilight Zone, this obscure series had a brief run of only 14 episodes which were filmed live back in 1961. You can see many veteran actors and actresses in these macabre little stories. Charlotte Ray, Rosemary Murphy, Richard ("John Boy") Thomas, Martin Balsam, Madeleine Sherwood (who later played the reverend mother on Flying Nun) and many others. Apparently, the debut episode "William and Mary" garnered very positive ratings on both coasts, but the Midwest wasn't all that impressed with this creepy little series and so it was cancelled. None of the episodes were ever shown again on TV after this initial broadcast run. However all 14 shows still exist as kinescopes that were donated by David Susskind to The Paley Center for the Media in NY. 10 of the 14 episodes have been on You Tube. Pity that such a cool albeit short lived series couldn't be released to the public on DVD but I think that CBS or the Susskind Estate may own the rights and what with it being such an obscure series, I just don't see an official release happening. The Paley Center appears to be the only place to have all 14 surviving kinescopes of the series. So unless you go there, there's always You Tube for 10 of the 14.

We really need to have all 14 episodes of "Way Out" released on DVD for everyone to enjoy. One reason for it not being released is that apparently it's not known who owns the rights to this program at the present. There is definitely a market for this kind of program. Fans of classic programs like "Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" would eat this stuff up as it's from the same era in television history. World famous writer Roald Dahl introduces each program and many recognizable faces are seen in the series. It's also worth noting that Dick Smith who did the makeup for this series, would later go on to do the makeup for the movie "The Exorcist" in 1973.

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.