Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Although this show was broadcast only for a very brief period in 1961, I still remember it. indeed, it is difficult to forget. Like "The Twilight Zone", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Thriller", "Way Out" was an anthology series. However, in this case the emphasis was on the weird and the sardonic. Although the manner in which prologues presented by Roald Dahl were clearly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling, Dahl bestowed upon them a bizarre and sardonic character all his own. Indeed, it sometimes seems as though he may not even be of this Earth. While the production values were not costly, that deficiency was more than offset by the excellent quality of the writing and acting. Some truly first-rate people contributed to the making of this program. I understand that this series was discontinued because it did not go over well in "the heartland". Viewing some of these stories, even today, one can easily perceive how that could well have been the case. Many of these stories, such as "The Croaker" (in which even the kid is dishonest) still leave the viewer feeling a little bit uneasy. "Leave It to Beaver", it isn't! Those who crave flashy sci-fi special effects will certainly be disappointed here. However, if you enjoy interesting and original writing, good acting and stories that are truly OUT THERE, give "Way Out" a try. Incidentally, for those who are interested, "Way Out" is still out there, on YouTube.

.....then by all means let me know directly at the above e-mail address so that I may arrange for a copy for you. Specifically "Death Wish," the one with Charlotte Rae as an insufferably TV-addicted wife who drives her husband to plot to kill her, leading him into the realm of a very strange funeral parlor. The creepy proprietor has a beefy, Tor Johnson-like assistant, and between their combined presence, the very unsettling organ soundtrack, and the bizarre candle-lit appearance of the parlor in kinescope, it's one unforgettable set! Roald Dahl himself opens the show with great funereal wit (and as a bonus treat we can hear Rod Serling's voice at the end making a pitch for his own classic series, "The Twilight Zone"). A 'reel' gem worth repeat viewings!

Great show. I first heard about this show in the late 80's and it has never been re-shown or syndicated. I believe the producer of the show had all the episodes and either he or his estate had them donated to the museum of TV and radio at some point in the 90's tho I am not sure exactly when this happened.There are five episodes currently floating around between private deals and collectors. You can probably find them on E-bay. The museum of television and radio in NYC and Beverly Hills have all 14 episodes of the show in their collection for viewing. Some of the films have problems and scratches etc but again this material is from 1961 and has not received the same kind of attention like the original Twilight Zone has received over the years with the prints being cleaned up and remastered but are still worth watching especially the episodes "Soft Focus", "Side Show", "False Face" and "Dissolve to Black". I hope one day they are remastered and released to the public via DVD but I doubt any studio will feel there is enough of a market for this obscure forgotten show.

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.