- 8.0/1019 votes
#1 - The Silence
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/28/1961
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Rod Serling
- 8.0/101 votes
- 7.6/1025 votes
#3 - Candidate for Crime
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/1973
A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Dean Hargrove
- 6.9/1015 votes
#4 - The Arrival
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1961
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Rod Serling
- 6.9/1029 votes
#5 - The Greenhouse Jungle
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1972
Jarvis Goodland, along with his nephew, plan a kidnap scam to break the nephews trust fund, but after the money has been collected, Jarvis kills his partner.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
- 6.0/101 votes
#6 - Death Wish
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/9/1961
This episode starts out with the Narrator saying, ""Most men want to kill their wives."" (did I mention ""Way Out"" is a misogynistic series?) And we meet yet another married couple that can't stand each other: George and Hazel Atterbury. They attend a funeral for one of George's coworkers. That night, TV-addict Hazel is talking to her hubby, telling him all about her favorite TV shows, for example, ""The one where they're all gangsters, except the hero... it's very authentic, it's based on official files."" (sounds like ""The Untouchables"".) George goes for a walk instead. George walks to the Petard mortuary that handled the funeral. George decides to kill his wife. Just as we hear his thoughts-- ""What do you do with the body?""-- Mr. Petard puts a sign in the window: ""Let us dispose of the body."" Inside, George talks to Mr. Petard, who is an eloquent elderly gentleman who has a giant, bald-headed assistant named Charon* (think: Tor Johnson). When George finds out they killed Mrs. H
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 4.0/101 votes
#7 - Word Games
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/26/1979
Kate Mulgrew is Kate Columbo, wife of the rumpled police lieutenant and - in her own right - a mother, homemaker and reporter for a neighborhood throwaway. In this week's opener, she also demonstrates a knack for investigation after she overhears a neighbor plotting the murder of his wife.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A