'Way Out

- Season 1

(1961)

A bullying husband allows his brain to be kept alive after his demise to irritate his wife, but she may have the last laugh.

At 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.

The 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.

The 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.

A woman who is about to run off with a married man receives threatening phone calls in her hotel room.

A 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. Soon the neighbors are disappearing, frogs are appearing and the youngster is catching flies for Mr. Rana's large amphibians.

A 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.

An 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.

When 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.

A 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.

Professor 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.

Henpecked Harold Potter is smitten with Cassandra the Electric Woman at the side show, and she entices him to help her escape from the brutal barker.

A vain and selfish portrait photographer acquires a bottle of correction ink which, when applied to touch-up his photograph, erases wrinkles and removes other imperfections from his actual face, restoring handsome, youthful features. He uses the miraculous fluid to his own selfish advantage.

Nearsighted salesman Hervey Cartwright discovers that when he puts on his new glasses, he is transported to a taxidermists shop where they rent out a poisonous viper that can eliminate unwanted people-like Hervey's nasty wife.