"'Way Out" Dissolve to Black (TV Episode 1961) Poster

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7/10
Pretty freaky.
planktonrules4 August 2012
This is the only episode of "Way Out" I have ever seen and it's available in the public domain--along with just a few others. I was quite taken aback to see that the anthology series' host was Roald Dahl and that when he introduced the show, it looked like the special effects were simulating drugs! He also talked like he might have been on something--especially since he admitted that pretty much everything he said had nothing to do with the episode!! Really...you just need to see it to believe the introduction!

"Dissolve to Black" begins with a young actress being called to a TV set. Apparently, a lady was supposed to play a murder witness and victim on the show but she new showed up for work. Now this young lady has been asked to stay late and work on her part with the director. But, considering this is a much much like "The Twilight Zone", things won't work out as she expects.

All in all, a decent episode but nothing special. Very creepy though the creepiest aspect isn't the episode but Dahl's introduction and especially his final comments. Bizarre and very watchable.
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8/10
Nice ep but a few problems
bobforapples-401464 October 2023
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Episode of short lived supernatural anthology. Concerns an actress who comes to the set of a TV show and stays after hours. The simulated murder she takes in part in earlier in the day gives way to a seemingly real murder and she is trapped and powerless to get out of the studio to safety.

A problem. The show is not visually the best. It has early transparent 50s TV production values though it was made in the next decade. It works only for people who ran out of new ( to them) Twilight Zone/One Step Beyond/ Alfred Hitchcock Presents eps to view.

Two problem. What is happening!?! The studio is haunted by demons who lived and we're killed before or what? No real explanation at all is given. Worth viewing just once. Nice looking lady in lead.
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5/10
Not bad for the times
safenoe18 October 2023
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Dissolve to Black is an episode from Roald Dahl's Way Out, which is a series that kind of served as a prelude to Tales of the Unexpected. Anyway, the premise of Dissolve to Black was quite commendable and showed the pure genius of Roald "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl. But somehow the ending could have been more specific. I'm sure Black Mirror or Inside No. 9 would have loved the premise of this episode, or even Tales from the Darkside with its scary opening theme and all.

Anyway, Way Out is a show that should be rebooted but I guess we have Inside No. 9 as the proxy for Way Out init.
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