Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season #2

Alfred Hitchcock Season #2

💎💎Episode #1: Wet Saturday💎💎- A sad sack is charged with a murder that was actually committee by his young daughter. Mr. Princey’s daughter has just murdered the Schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won’t do. It’s up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime. Mr. Princey’s batty daughter, Millicent, has just killed the Schoolmaster, with whom she was in love, when she fond out he had gotten engaged to another woman. A murderess in the family? That won’t do. Mr. Princey has a shallow dimwit for a son and a wife who, whatever her other qualities, is no good when it comes to covering up a murder. Mr. Princey takes it upon himself to keep Millicent out of prison or the madhouse. Good luck is on his side when Captain Smollet stops by for a visit. Captain Smollet, it seems, has just as much a motive for murder as Millicent. A vulnerable man is pinned with a murder he did not commit. Mr. Princey’s daughter has just killed her Schoolmaster with a croquet mallet. He tries to find a way to protect his family’s name and prevent his daughter from prosecution. He locates a man whom he thinks will be a perfect scapegoat, Smollet. Princey takes Smollet to the Schoolmaster’s body and draws a gun on him. He gives him two choices: Go along with Princey’s scheme that makes it look like Smollet committed the murder or be shot on the spot. Smollet chooses the former. Princey makes it look like Smollet committed the crime. He then tells him to keep his mouth shut. Smollet leaves and Princey calls the police. He reports that a murder has just taken place.

💎💎Episode #2: Fog Closing In💎💎- A wife is alone in her house while her husband is away on a business trip. Suddenly, she begins hearing strange noises. Mary Summers does not want to stay home alone when her husband Arthur goes away on business. She asks that her family be allowed to stay with her. Arthur refuses. While he is away, an escaped mental patient breaks into the house. Surprisingly, the patient gets along with Mary. She is not afraid of him. She tells him about a dream she has had where someone follows her up the stairs. When the police arrive, the mental patient escapes. After the police leave, Mary hears someone coming up the stairs just like in her dream. She find’s Arthur’s pistol as the door opens. At the door is Arthur. He came home early when he heard about the escape at the asylum. Though she knows it is her husband, Mary shoots him. She then calls her family and tells them she is coming home. When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in. Mary Summers lives in a constant state of fear- fear that threatens to become panic when her husband goes away on a business trip tor a week. She’s all alone in a large house when she hears a crash near the back door. Soon, she’s face to face with the man who has just broken in – a man she soon realizes is an escaped mental patient. A troubled wife is left alone in her house while her husband travels on business. When she hears strange noises, she goes to investigate. Mary Summers does not want to stay alone at home when her husband goes away on business. She asks that her family be allowed to stay with her. Arthur refuses her request. While Arthur is away an escaped mental patient breaks into the house. Surprisingly, the mental patient gets along with Mary. She is not afraid of him. She tells him about a dream she has had where someone follows her up the stairs. When the State Hospital staff arrives, the mental patient makes an escape. After the staff leaves, Mary hears someone coming up the stairs just like in her dream. She finds Arthur’s pistol as the door opens. At the door is Arthur. He came home early when he heard about the escape at the asylum. Even though she knows it is him, Mary shoots him. Then her father calls and she tells them she can come home.

💎💎Episode #3: De Mortuis💎💎- A college professor is none too pleased when he discovers that his younger wife has been cheating on him. An old college professor decides to take some actions when he finds out his wife has cheated on him. Professor Rankin’s buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife. Professor Rankin’s two buddies want to take the Prof. out fishing. But he doesn’t seem to be home. They see that coffee is percolating, figure he’s about to come back any minute and wait for him. Meanwhile, they gossip about his wife. Much younger than the Prof. A dish, they call her. She’s also – though they don’t use the word – a slut. Bud tells the story of the time she let a truck driver pick her up. Wally tells the story of the time she hit on him. They’re just about to leave when they hear him down in the cellar. He’s filling in a hole. The two men begin to suspect there’s more in that hole than just cement. Clarence Rankin’s promiscuous wife Irene cheats on him constantly. Sadly, he knows nothing about it. One day, two of Clarence’s friends stop by his house. They see him filling a large hole in the basement with cement. Since they don’t see Irene, they believe that Clarence has found out about her cheating and killed her. Instead of going to the police, they talk to Clarence. They tell him that, given her cheating, his actions were probably justified. Clarence denies everything and says that his wife is on a trip. His friends leave after saying they will keep quiet. Later, Irene returns. Now knowing the truth, Clarence asks her to come down to the basement.

💎💎Episode #4: Kill with Kindness💎💎- A man plans with the aid of his sister, to fake his death in a fire so as to collect the insurance money. Fitz Oldham plans to torch his home and fake his death to collect the insurance money with the help of his sister. Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother Fitzhugh – a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher – on the task of murder. Katherine Oldham sees a homeless man. He looks perfect and brings him home inside and feeds him some stew. The man dimly suspects something is wrong, but it is; her and her brother Fitzhugh are planning to substitute his body for that of her brother – after he’s dies in a fire, that is. Hoping to pull off an insurance scam, Fritz Oldham and his sister Katherine decide to torch his house and fake Fritz’s death. In order to pull off the scam, they need a body. They find a prospective corpse in a bum named Jorgy. Their plan is to knock him out and place Fritz’s ring around his finger. They will then set fire to the house. All goes according to plan until they need the ring. Unfortunately, Fritz cannot get it off his finger. Since they already set the fire, they decide to wake up Jorgy and escort him out of the blazing house. People who witness the “rescue” praise Fritz for saving the old man from the fire.

💎💎Episode #5: None are So Blind💎💎- A man disguises himself as another person in order to murder his wealthy aunt for an inheritance but something he overlooks ends up giving him away. Seymour Johnson disguises himself as another person in order to kill his wealthy aunt. When he is questioned by police, he gives himself away because he forgets to take off his disguise. Seymour Johnson disguises himself as another person in order to kill his wealthy aunt. When he is questioned by police, he gives himself away due to something he cannot (or will not) see. An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with the money. Finding another man’s wallet gives him an evil idea. Vain, pretentious Seymour Johnson didn’t see himself that way. Nor does he see himself the way his late father did – as one who couldn’t be trusted with a large inheritance. That’s why Seymour’s father left all his money to his sister, Seymour’s Aunt Muriel. Once she’s dead, the money will all go to him. But Muriel doesn’t seem destined to die any time soon. In the meantime, how will Seymour keep his antique shop going and be able to enjoy any of the finer things in life? When Seymour, reduced to eating in a diner, finds a wallet someone had dropped, the answer comes to him. Seymour, a vain, uninspired young man, is talking with his aunt in her home. Despite his flattery, she makes it clear to him that under no circumstances can Seymour expect to get any more money from her until after her death. His father willed her the money for a reason: Giving it to Seymour would be a mistake and never help to develop his character as work could. Seymour is a dreamer, someone who only sees what he wants to see and even his little antique shop is an utter failure. She gently puts down this occupation as well and Seymour begins plotting her demise. As he plans how to get rid of the old woman, one day Seymour stumbles upon someone’s wallet while in a café. There is no money inside, only a driver’s license, but it spurs Seymour’s idea. When Seymour tells his wife of his scheme, she scoffs, not even thinking him capable of being industrious when it comes to murder. Seymour begins disguising himself with a wig and makeup and living out a new identity in New Jersey, making himself hideous to the neighbors in order to give himself an alibi. At last, he confronts his aunt again in her home. She laughs at him for having written a blackmail letter to her in the name of this alter ego. He asks her if she’s taken it to the police and she again laughs. The letter is in the waste basket. As she puts together s puzzle, Seymour shoots her in the head, exits the room and when the maid comes, he pretends to go after the guy who must have done it. Confident he’s thought of everything, Seymour relaxes and begins enjoying his aunt’s money and estate. One morning, while he’s eating, the detective who originally questioned him returns to talk with him again. Seymour asks if he has found the perpetrator and the detective says, “We’re close.” The detective then proceeds to tell him that Seymour’s aunt had told him a great deal about her nephew and the detective stares at Seymour until he grows uncomfortable. The one distinguishing feature that neither the disguise nor Seymour were able either to hide nor acknowledge was a large, obvious birthmark on the right side of his face below his eye.

💎💎Episode #6: Toby💎💎- A man is reunited with his childhood sweetie who agrees to marry him. What’s that old saying – be careful what you ask for. Albert finds his childhood love who agrees to marry him. New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she still every bit the lady. But she doesn’t come alone. New York, 1910: In a poor neighbor, a heat wave is making weary and truculent. Meanwhile, Mr. Birch is renting a basement flat for his fiancée, Edwina. She was his sweetheart twenty years ago; now, thanks to a newspaper advertisement she placed, the two have found each other again. He wants everything to be perfect for her arrival, which means, among other things, a dozen roses. She loved roses. It strikes him as a bad sign when the vase the roses were to go in breaks. The first real sign of trouble is seeing Edwina herself. She’s still a beautiful woman and every bit the lady she always was. But she doesn’t come alone. She arrives with a bundle in a baby blanket. This first shock gives way to more unpleasant surprises and mysterious behavior from the woman he hopes, at long last, to marry. Albert Birch’s childhood sweetheart Edwina Freel gets in touch with him and surprisingly, agrees to marry him. She arrives with her sickly baby named Toby. She tells Albert that the baby is her dead sister’s. Edwina turns out to be rather reclusive. She does not permit Albert to come anywhere near Toby. Later, two men arrive and take Edwina back to the asylum from which she escaped. As she is being taken away, she pleads to Albert to take care of Toby. He goes to Toby’s room and finds a cat. On his collar is the name “Toby.”

💎💎Episode #7: Alibi Me💎💎- A gang member is desperate for an alibi. Georgie is a hoodlum looking for an alibi after the death of his rival. Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi. Georgie Minnelli confronts Lucky Moore, his old childhood enemy, for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Georgie waves a gun in Lucky’s face, but Lucky isn’t intimidated. A cop named Larkin has just been made Lieutenant and Larkin vowed long ago that if either of these hated rivals turns up dead, the other had better have a good alibi. Georgie couldn’t possibly get away with it. But Lucky has pushed Georgie too far and his old enemy shoots him dead anyway. Now the young gangster is desperate for an alibi. But getting one won’t be easy. Georgie and Lucky are rival gangsters who know that if one of them is killed, the other would be the police’s prime suspect. One day, Lucky insults Georgie and is shot dead. Georgie then goes looking for someone to give him an alibi. After many failures, he finally convinces his landlady. He instructs her to tell the police that he was home all day. When a detective shows up, the landlady gives the alibi. A delivery boy then arrives. He carries a package for Georgie from Lucky. The boy asks for a tip and Georgie refuses. The delivery boy calls Georgie cheap and reveals that he tried to deliver the package five times that day. The detective overhears the boy’s statement and arrests Georgie.

💎💎Episode #8: Conversation Over a Corpse💎💎- Two sisters poison the banker who held their mortgage and was about to begin foreclosure proceedings. Two sisters poison the banker who holds their mortgage. Mr. Brenner makes a down payment on a house. The house’s owners, Cissie and Johanna Enright, however, abruptly refuse to sell. He threatens a lawsuit but is poisoned. He collapses and the sisters discuss what to do. Johanna wants to finish him off with more poison while Cissie prefers a gun. Brenner revives and pits each sister against each other. He gets the gun from Cissie and shoots Johanna. Soon after the police, Brenner clears Cissie of her sister’s murder. After the police leave, Cissie finishes him off with poison so the house is all hers. Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man. But her sister, Johanna, insists that it’s the only way. Otherwise, he is going to take the house from them. Cissie reluctantly poisons the tea. Mr. Brenner arrives with no idea what is in store for him. But things don’t go as Johanna or Cissie had planned either. Mr. Brenner makes a down payment on a house. The house’s owners, Cissie and Johanna Enright say that they do not want to sell. He threatens them with a lawsuit, but he is poisoned. He collapses and the sisters discuss what they should do. Johanna wants to finish him off with more poison, while Cissie prefers a gun. Brenner revives and pitches one sister against the other. He gets the gun from Cissie and shoots Johanna. Soon the police arrive, Brenner clears Cissie of her sister’s murder. After the police leave, Cissie finishes him off with poison so the house is all for her. 

💎💎Episode #9: Crack of Doom💎💎- Through flashbacks, a man relates to an acquittance the reason he stopped gambling. Mason Bridges plays Poker with one of his company’s wealthy clients. He gambles everything he has and everything his company owns on one single game. A no-limit game of Poker brings a real estate man to the brink of ruin. In the club car of a New York-Chicago streamliner, Mason Bridges adamantly refuses his friends’ request to join him in the next car for a game of penny-ante. One of the friends presses him about his refusal and Mason tells him a story of the time he had unwittingly become a thief. Years before, he was an office manager for a real estate firm. An unpleasant business associate named Sam Klinker gives him $10,000 to put in the company safe – and then invites him to a no-limit game of Poker. Circumstances conspire to bring Mason Bridges to the brink of ruin. And a single card will make all the difference. Mason Bridges is on a train with some pals who ask him to indulge them in a game of Poker. He obstinately refuses and when pressed, recounts the story of how Poker nearly ruined him. It was shortly after college and he was working an office manager. A business associate named Klinker pressured him to play a game of Poker that evening. Before the man left his office, he gave Mason ten thousand dollars that was to be for a transaction with another client. When Mason lost a thousand dollars within an hour, he quit the game. Unable to walk away from Klinker’s smirk, Mason went back to the office and helped himself to four thousand dollars of Klinker’s money, figuring he’d use his own savings as backup. He lost it within an hour. When he got home to his apartment, wondering how he’d explain things to his wife, he discovered that the ledger is blank and that she had secretly used their savings for an investment that went south. Mason returns to the office and takes more money from the company’s safe. He returns to the Poker game and finally the game comes down to him and Klinker. The stakes got higher and higher, until Mason gambles everything he has personally, along with the client’s money, thinking that he had a Queen in the hole. Turned out, his card was a Jack, which he misread. While he sweated it out, Klinker ended up putting everything that he had on the table for what turned out to be three tens. The end result was that Mason won due to his “bluff” and walked away with the pile of money. The only reason that he bluffed was because he thought he actually had a Queen, not a Jack. He concludes the story by affirming that this is why he will never, ever play Poker again. As he exits the train car, another colleague comes in and wants to wager a friendly drink. The man who has heard Mason’s story replies, “Not on your life.”

💎💎Episode #10: Jonathan💎💎- When his father dies a teenager suspects his stepmother, whom he’s resented since the days she married his father. A son doesn’t take it very well when his widowed father gets married again. A widower remarries but his son does not take this too kindly. A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play. Gil Dalliford has an unnaturally close relationship with his father, whom he calls by his first name, Jonathan. “Every important moment of my life is a moment I had with Jonathan,” he says. But after eighteen years of being a widower, Jonathan finds he’s ready to settle down with a new wife. Before Gil even meets her, he declares his everlasting hatred for her. And that hatred only intensifies after his father dies. Of a heart attack, the doctor said. But Gil suspects foul play. Jonathan Dalliford’s son is resentful of his new wife. When Jonathan dies of poison, he accuses his stepmother. Later, however, it is revealed that Gil tried to poison his stepmother but ended up killing his father by mistake.

💎💎Episode #11: The Better Bargain💎💎- Furious at his cheating wife, a mobster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when he overlooks some loose ends. A mobster discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him, so he sends out a triggerman. A middle-aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him. He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business. Louis Koster is a middle-aged mobster, now running a more-or-less legitimate business and enjoying a beautiful young wife. That is, until he suspects his wife of having an affair. A mousy little private eye confirms it. Now the only thing Louis “The King” Koster has left to do is hire Harry Silver. Silver is the best hitman in the business, but his price may come too high. Mobster Louis “The King” Koster suspects his wife and sole heir is unfaithful. He hires a hitman to kill her for $20,000. The hitman agrees and follows Koster’s wife, but then shoots the mobster dead. It was the hitman who is Marian’s lover. Since she will inherit everything, the hitman simply chose “the better bargain.” A mobster hires a hitman to kill his cheating wife and lover. Mobster Louis “The King” Koster believes that his wife and sole heir is unfaithful. He hires a hitman to kill her for twenty thousand dollars. The hitman agrees, but he then shoots Koster dead. The hitman was Marian’s lover. Since she will inherit everything, the hitman decided to go with the better bargain.

💎💎Episode #12: The Rose Garden💎💎- A man thinks that manuscript’s murder mystery is more fact than fiction, so he visits the author’s home to see what lies buried in the garden. A publisher discovers that details in a supposedly fictional manuscript are actually the truth. Alexander Vinton is a publisher who receives a murder mystery from a woman named Julia Picker. Vinton is disturbed by the book’s feeling of authenticity. He visits Picker and comes to believe that her tale of a murdered husband buried in a rose garden is true. Julia’s sister convinces him that it isn’t and proceeds to talk him out of publishing the book. After he leaves, Julia confronts her sister, who was the one who murdered her husband. A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion. One of them has written a murder mystery. And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction. The cab driver taking Mr. Vinton to his destination is surprised to see he has business with Miss Julie Picker and not her sister, Miss Cordelia. Miss Cordelia, A.K.A. Mrs. Welles, has her sister under her thumb. He’s even more surprised to find that Miss Julia has written a book that Mr. Vinton wants to publish. When Mr. Vinton arrives at the elderly sisters’ magnolia-scented Louisiana mansion, he’s the one surprised, finding that the house perfectly matches the one Miss Julia had described in her story. As a guest in the house, he finds an old furniture carved with lion’s heads, brass cherubs, a stone bench in a rose garden – all things from the book. Mr. Vinton’s mind becomes troubled as he wonders how much the rest of Miss Julia’s murder mystery might be true. A publisher finds more fact than fiction in an author’s text. Alexander Vinton is a publisher who receives a murder mystery from a woman named Julia Picker. Alexander is disturbed by the book’s feeling of authenticity. He visits Julia and comes to believe that her tale of a murdered husband buried in a rose garden is true. Julia’s sister convinces him that it is not and proceeds to talk him into not publishing the book. After he leaves, Julia confronts her sister and reveals that it was Cordelia that murdered her husband.

💎💎Episode #13: Mr. Blanchard’s Secret💎💎- A nosy housewife sets out prove that the new neighbor has murdered his wife. A housewife starts playing detective when she begins thinking that her neighbor is up to no good. Babs Fenton has a hyperactive imagination. She believes her new neighbor Charles Blanchard has killed his wife. That theory is quickly put to rest, however, as Mrs. Blanchard shows up at Fenton’s door and introduces herself. That night, Fenton sees Mr. Blanchard carrying something from the house and is again convinced that he has murdered his wife. Fenton is proven wrong again when Mrs. Blanchard shows up at her door. Mrs. Blanchard says her husband has taken a few belongings and left because of a fight. She then leaves. Babs notices that a lighter is missing and comes up with a theory that Mrs. Blanchard is a Kleptomaniac. Later, this theory proves wrong as well as Mrs. Blanchard announces a reconciliation with her husband. She also returns the lighter, saying her husband fixed it. A mystery writer’s imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors – and wonders why she has never seen his wife. The kooky Babs Fenton’s imagination is a great asset when writing murder mysteries, But it does not foster peace and harmony in the home, especially not when she has an unimaginative corporate lawyer for a husband. Her overstimulated mind begins working on her new next-door neighbors, the Blanchards, when she realizes she’s never seen Mrs. Blanchard. And Mr. Blanchard seems less than eager for her to pay a call. Has Mr. Blanchard, a high school teacher and former university professor, murdered his wife? A homemaker decides to play investigator when she starts to think that her neighbor is up to no good. Babs Fenton has an overactive imagination. She believes that her new neighbor Charles Blanchard has killed his wife. Later, Mrs. Blanchard shows up at her door and introduces herself. That night, however, Babs sees Charles Blanchard carrying something from the house. Babs again becomes convinced that Mrs. Blanchard has been murdered. Again, however, she is proved wrong when Mrs. Blanchard shows up at her door. Mrs. Blanchard informs Babs that Charles has taken some belongings and left because of a fight. Mrs. Blanchard then leaves. Babs notices that a lighter is missing and comes up with the theory that Mrs. Blanchard is a Kleptomaniac. Later, this theory proves wrong as well when Mrs. Blanchard shows up and announces reconciliation with her husband. She also returns the lighter, saying that her husband fixed it.

💎💎Episode #14: John Brown’s Body💎💎- A man’s wife devises a greedy scheme to take over his failing business. But persuading him to come back isn’t as easy as getting rid of him. A woman has her husband committed to a mental hospital, but he doesn’t take kindly to the situation. John Brown is committed to an institution by his wife Vera and business partner Harold. Both believe that John’s furniture designs are destroying his business. Their plot works, but after John is committed the business begins to lose money. The two decide to get John back. John, however, likes the institution he is staying in and manages to convince the doctors he is insane. An upset furniture designer colludes with his boss’s wife to drive her husband mad. John Brown and Company makes furniture and has been a solid business for years. But young Harold Skinner wants to shake things up and make modern furniture. John Brown will have none of it. Soon, Harold meets John Brown’s wife, an attractive woman in her 30s, who married for money – though she denies it. Unlike her husband, she’s excited about Skinner’s modern ideas and wants to help him. Especially after the two of them become lovers. Harold comes up with a “wonderful horrible idea” to get John Brown out of the way: Convince him he’s losing his mind. A woman has her husband committed to a mental institution. John Brown is committed to an institution by his wife Vera and his business partner Harold. Both believe that John’s furniture designs are destroying his business. Their plot works, but after John is committed the business begins to lose money. The two decide to get John back. John, however, likes the institution he is staying in and manages to convince the doctors he is insane.

💎💎Episode #15: Crackpot💎💎- When a car breaks down, a newlywed couple is helped by Mr. Moon, who turns nasty when his suit gets dirty. A good Samaritan who stopped to help a honeymooning couple turns out to be major trouble. On their way to a hotel, two newlyweds have car trouble. Mr. Moon stops to help them but ruins his suit in the process. He becomes enraged and threatens them. They manage to get away. They check into their hotel but discover that Mr. Moon is staying in the room right next to them. A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire. But when the groom accidentally dirties the man’s suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis are two newlyweds who have recently endured a family tragedy and are now having bad luck on their honeymoon. Their car has a flat tire – and so does the spare. A stranger named Mr. Moon passes by and fixes the tire. But this Good Samaritan proves to be a crackpot. Mr. Loomis trips and falls onto Moon, dirtying his white suit. The man becomes enraged and threatens to kill him, before driving off. Later, the couple arrives at their hotel. And they realize their bad luck has gotten worse when the crackpot is in the suite right next to theirs.

💎💎Episode #16: Nightmare in 4-D💎💎- A man agrees to help his pretty neighbor, an actress, to hide her murdered husband. But his good deed backfires when he becomes a suspect. A man has a vague memory of helping a woman dispose of a corpse. Harry Parker and his wife Norma live in Apartment 4-D. Their downstairs neighbor is an actress named Lainie. One day, she knocks on the Parker’s door and asks for help. Lainie needs someone to get rid of the body of Bill Nelson. He was shot through a window in her apartment and now lays there dead. Lainie wants Harry to move the body downstairs to the basement. She fears bad publicity. When Harry wakes up the next day, he thinks it was all a bad dream. When he goes to the basement, he finds the police. Later, Harry’s wife admits to having an affair with Bill. When the police learn of this, Harry becomes the chief suspect in Bill’s murder. A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she’s burdened with a corpse. Harry Parker in Apartment 4-D reads a lot of pulp fiction and watches a lot of late-night TV. That lends an air of inauthenticity to the story he tells his wife in the morning about what happened at two A.M. It seems the blonde in 3-D needed him to play Sir Galahad. At two A.M., she has a man in her apartment. And he’s dead. “Miss Elliot, I can’t get involved in a murder,” says Harry. “I’m a married man.” But it isn’t long before he finds himself helping her take the corpse down to the basement. Was the whole thing a dream? A husband has a vague memory of helping a woman get rid of a corpse. Harry Parker and his wife Norma live in Apartment 4-D. Their next-door neighbor is an actress named Lainie. One day, she knocks on the Parker’s door and asks for help. Lainie needs someone to get rid of the body of Bill Nelson. He was shot through a window in her apartment and now lays there dead. Lainie wants Harry to move the body downstairs to the basement. She fears bad publicity. When Harry wakes up the next day, he thinks it was all a bad dream. When he goes to the basement, he finds the police. Later, Harry’s wife admits to having an affair with Bill. When the police learn of this, Harry becomes the chief suspect in Bill’s murder. 

💎💎Episode #17: My Brother, Richard💎💎- A District Attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for Governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition. In order to help his brother become a Governor, a man assassinates the opposing candidate. Martin Ross is a District Attorney running for Governor. His brother Richard murders his opponent in the race. Martin and his wife Laura confront Richard, but Richard pulls a gun on them and holds them captive. The next day, Martin gets a call from the Sheriff: They are holding a boy for the murder of Martin’s opponent. Richard agrees to let Martin interrogate the boy, but he does not let Laura go. Martin forces a false confession out of the boy. Martin takes the confession to his brother. Richard doesn’t think its good enough. He wants to wait until the boy is executed. A struggle occurs and Martin is knocked unconscious. Richard tries to escape but is stopped by the boy’s mother. She believes Richard is the District Attorney and stabs him. District Attorney Martin Ross is running for Governor and learns that his brother Richard has killed the other candidate Burton Reeves. Martin Ross is a District Attorney with a fighting chance at his party’s nomination for Governor. But Martin’s brother, Richard, wants him to have more than a fighting chance. So, as the other candidate takes a shower at his country club, Richard walks in with a gun and a silencer and walks out with one less bullet. The Sheriff calls Martin and tells him the news of the murder. Later, he has a suspect: The victim’s teenage caddy. But Martin already knows his brother is the real murderer. And Richard takes Martin’s wife hostage to ensure that no one else finds out. A man kills his brother’s opponent for the Governor’s office. Martin Ross is a District Attorney running for Governor. His brother Richard murders his opponent in the race. Martin and his wife Laura confront Richard, but Richard pulls a gun on them and holds them captive. The next day, Martin gets a call from the Sheriff, they are holding a boy for the murder of Martin’s opponent. Richard agrees to let Martin interrogate the boy, but he does not let Laura go. Martin forces a false confession out of the boy. Martin takes the confession to his brother. Richard does not think it is good enough. He wants to wait until the boy is executed. A struggle occurs and Martin is knocked unconscious. Richards tries to escape but is stopped by the boy’s mother. She believes Richard is the District Attorney and stabs him.

💎💎Episode #18: The Manacled💎💎- A crafty, resourceful criminal being transported via train tries to bribe his escorting Police Sergeant for his freedom. Ben Rockwell is transporting prisoner Steve Fontaine by train. Fontaine is manacled by the so-called Oregon Boot and Rockwell has the only key. During the trip, Fontaine persuades Rockwell to let him go, but Rockwell changes his mind. He and Fontaine struggle and Rockwell is shot and killed. Fontaine finds the key to the boot, but it has been destroyed by the bullet and cannot free him. Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin. Sergeant Rockwell is an honest cop, but $50,000 is enough to tempt even someone like him. He’s transporting a prisoner on a passenger train. The man is Stephen Fontaine, a thief with the silver tongue of a devil. As the Sergeant leafs through a magazine about sports and cars, Fontaine tells Rockwell that a pickpocket on the train has put an envelope in Rockwell’s jacket pocket. Rockwell checks and sure enough it’s there. Inside the envelope is a key. Fontaine tells the Sergeant what it opens, where to get in and what’s inside. $50,000. All the Sergeant has to do is let the prisoner escape. $50,000 dollars is offered to a detective by a criminal for his freedom. Ben Rockwell is transporting prisoner Steve Fontaine by train. Fontaine manacled by an “Oregon Boot”. Rockwell has the only key. During the trip, Fontaine manages to convince Rockwell to let him go, but Rockwell changes his mind. He and Fontaine struggle and Rockwell is shot and killed. When Fontaine finds the key to the boot, he sees that it has been destroyed by the bullet and cannot free him.

💎💎Episode #19: A Bottle of Wine💎💎- A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for. A judge tries to prove his wife’s lover is a coward. Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife. But the quality of his mercy is strained. The Judge and Wallace Donaldson sit in the former’s drawing room, drink amontillado and have a painfully civilized conversation. What makes it painful, on both sides, is that young Mr. Donaldson is about to take away the old Judge’s young, beautiful wife. The tense meeting is not made more relaxing by the Judge’s quotations from Aristotle and Plato. It’s even less relaxing when the Judge takes out his pistol. Much to his annoyance, Judge Condon’s wife Grace has a boyfriend named Wally Donaldson. Condon tries to prove that he is all wrong for her. He invites Wally for a glass of wine which he tells him was purchased on Grace’s Spanish Honeymoon. After Wally drinks the wine, Condon tells him its poisoned when, in fact, it is not. Wally panics and kills Condon. When Grace appears, Wally tells her about the wine. She reveals that she never had a honeymoon and had never been to Spain.

💎💎Episode #20: Malice Domestic💎💎- A man begins to suspect that his wife is trying to poison him. Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food. When a friend moves to San Francisco, Carl and Annette Borden agree to take her Great Dane, Cassandra. Carl gets along wonderfully with the dog, but the beast doesn’t seem to take well to Annette. Carl is a writer, Annette an artist who works with clay. She’s also an artist in the kitchen, where some serious domestic trouble is about to begin. Meanwhile, Cassandra lives up to her name. After Carl Borden sees a doctor, he discovers traces of arsenic in his body. Carl begins to suspect his wife Annette. After Annette drinks a cup of coffee and dies. The doctor informs Carl that she too has arsenic in her system. She must have poisoned herself by mistake. Later, Carl goes to San Francisco with his girlfriend. He reveals to her how close he came to dying while preparing for his wife’s murder. Carl starts to fall mysteriously ill after he and his wife adopt a friend’s dog. At a party, Carl and his wife, Annette, are talking with a mutual friend, Lorna – an attractive and charming woman – who is moving to San Francisco. She wants Carl and Annette to care for her dog. Shortly thereafter, Annette has Perry over for lunch. While they’re dining, Carl grips his stomach in evident pain. Later, he goes to the doctor at Annette’s insistence, but Carl writes it off as the results of rich food. Carl gets a call from the doctor, telling him that he needs to see him right away. The doctor swings by the house and tells Carl that he’d like to see him alone, away from Annette. The doctor informs Carl that tracs of arsenic was discovered in his medical tests. Carl refuses to believe that Annette would do such a thing and orders the doctor out of the house. Annette suggests that the two of them take a trip to their vacation cabin in the mountains and Carl readily agrees. The next morning, as Annette prepares coffee for the two of them, Carl loads the car. As he comes back inside the house, Annette puts sugar in her coffee, then keels over on the floor. The same doctor informs Carl that Annette also has arsenic in her system and must have died from it. The doctor concludes that Annette must have poisoned herself by mistake, intending to murder Carl. In the final scene, Carl is in the car with Lorna, his girlfriend. He reveals to her how close he came to dying while swallowing the first dose of arsenic to throw the doctor off the trail of his wife’s murder.

💎💎Episode #21: Number Twenty-Two💎💎- Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good. Young Steve Morgan seems almost happy that he’s been arrested and taken to jail. Now, maybe the guys at the pool hall will take him seriously. He just hopes that when his stick-up hits the papers, it doesn’t come out that he used a toy gun. His cellmate, much older and much more experienced, warns him against being too cocky. Jail is serious. And the next day’s lineup will prove it. The kid doesn’t pay attention. But it won’t be long before Steve Morgan’s flippant remarks begin to catch in his throat. Steve Morgan robs a candy store. He punches the owner in the process. He is soon arrested and is surprised by all the attention he is getting for such a minor crime. Morgan is later shocked to discover that the candy store owner died and that he is not being held for petty theft, but for murder. A petty crook clashes with a hardened criminal in a jail cell. A young man by the name of Steve Morgan robs a candy store, using a toy gun to hold it up. He punches the owner of the store in the process. The police catch him almost immediately and he is arrested and hauled off to jail. Steve treats the entire process of being shown to his cell, meeting his roommate and doing the lineup as a tremendous joke. His cellmate warns him to apologize for his petty theft and get out as soon as he can. Steve, however, soaks up the negative attention and reveals to his cellmate the thrill he feels at the thought of the guys at a local pool hall finally seeing him in the papers for getting busted by the law. After the lineup, Steve is taken to a separate room with his cellmate and a couple of other guys. He is supervised, as this is not standard – especially for someone arrested on petty theft. As he is questioned by several detectives, officers and the Chief, they ask him about why he hit the store owner. Steve claims that he ‘never hit anyone in his life” and grows quite defensive. Finally, he admits that he did hit the store owner with the butt of his toy gun but tells the officers to “ask him” – meaning the owner, about what happened. The Chief questioning Steve tells him that that’s not an option, as the store owner died from a cracked skull earlier that morning.

💎💎Episode #22: The End of Indian Summer💎💎- Joe Rogers goes undercover in order to expose a murderer named Mrs. Gillespie. He believes that she has been killing her husbands for insurance money. He discovers that Mrs. Gillespie has a fiancée and plans to marry again. He also discovers that she has taken out a large insurance policy on him. Later, Mrs. Gillespie runs off on another honeymoon. Joe meets another man who happened to be investigating Mrs. Gillespie’s fiancée. Apparently, he has had four previous wives, each of whom died under mysterious circumstances. An old woman is under investigation by her insurance company when she is about to get married for a third time after her previous husbands have died mysteriously. Joe Rogers works for an insurance company and is summoned into his boss’s office. His boss, Sam, gives Joe a hard time about not meeting face to face with a client after she filed a claim for $50,000. Joe learns that this client had not one claim, but actually two in her history, for a total of $100,000. Telling him he’s lucky he wasn’t fired Sam instructs Joe to go undercover and investigate the woman, Mrs. Gillespie. Sam also advises him to take along his wife, in case Mrs. Gillespie is a real femme fatale. Joe goes undercover and he and his wife find the sleepy little town in which Mrs. Gillespie lives. Pretending to be interested in buying her house, Joe arranges to see Mrs. Gillespie. In the meantime, Joe’s wife notices that a man keeps watching them. This same man is on the trail of Mrs. Gillespie, Joe believes, as he overhears the man inquiring as to her whereabouts. After Joe meets Mrs. Gillespie, who is much older than he anticipated, he finds her charming and is inclined to believe her to be harmless. However, before he leaves, an older gent walks into the house and Mrs. Gillespie introduces him to Joe as her fiancée. Alarmed, Joe leaves – only to find the other investigator waiting outside. Convinced that this investigator has been hired to follow him, Joe reacts defensively and abruptly leaves without speaking to the man. As Joe tries to figure out what to do, his wife urges caution. Later, Joe and is wife run into Mrs. Gillespie’s new fiancée while enjoying drinks. After inviting him to their table, it is discovered that he had a physical the day before, at the insistence of Mrs. Gillespie. While he didn’t mind the physical, he insisted that she have one as well. Outraged at the thought of the old man walking into Mrs. Gillespie’s death trap, Joe paces the hotel until he comes to the conclusion that he will confront the black widow. Upon arriving at her home, he is greeted by the real estate agent. She has already sold the house, married and is off on her honeymoon. No one knows where the newlyweds have gone. Meanwhile, the investigator who keeps showing up arrives. Joe discovers that this man was not trailing him after all but worked for an entirely different insurance agency – one that was investigating Mrs. Gillespie’s new husband. Apparently, he had had four previous wives, each of whom died under mysterious circumstances. An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs. Gillespie, who had been widowed twice – and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands’ life insurance. Joe Rogers takes his wife to a small town called Oxport. They are there on business, though not the business they’re pretending to be on. Rogers is an insurance investigator and he wants to check up on one Mrs. Gillespie. She has had two husbands so far and each died on the wedding trip. And each was insured with Rogers’s company for $50,000. An insurance agent named Joe Rogers is told by his boss, Sam Henderson that he had been going through old files and had found a life insurance policy taken out by Marguerite Gillespie. He is suspicious because her husband had died six weeks after she took out the policy. His boss is ticked off that Joe gave her $50,000 without checking anything. Joe says she was overseas at the time and her lawyer took care of it. He hadn’t seen anything suspicious. His boss says he looked for her and found another policy for Mrs. Gillespie, with a letter in the same handwriting, insuring her first husband for the same amount. This one, too, had died right after the wedding. He tells Joe there must be something funny going on. Joe and his wife go to the town where she lives to find out whatever he can.

At the hotel, he gets suspicious about a mystery man who seems to be watching them. The man goes out to the lobby and Joe follows. He manages to overhear the desk clerk answering a question about how long Mrs. Gillespie has been living in town. He decides it must be an investigator from the same insurance company checking up on him. Joe assumes the company doesn’t trust him to be thorough. Joe and his wife meet with the local realtor, Mr. Graham, pretending they’re interested in buying a house. She mentions the address of Mrs. Gillespie and the realtor says it’s definitely not for sale, but he enjoys showing the house to visitors. Joe goes over there alone. The door is opened by a maid and she pleasantly invites him in. Mrs. Gillespie offers him tea and is very charming. She almost has him suckered, but during his visit, who should walk in but her future third husband, Howard Fieldstone. They’re going to sell the house and go on a honeymoon. But it’s a secret. Well, he leaves, knowing full well she’s guilty of two past murders, but not knowing how to prove it. On leaving the house, he runs into the other agent waiting on the front porch. “Any luck?” he asks. Joe says, “I don’t know what you mean,” and stalks off. That night, a telegram is delivered by a bellhop. Joe’s company has finally discovered that Mrs. Gillespie took out a policy on her soon-to-be husband through another branch of the company. The next day at their hotel, he’s sitting with his wife when she sees the investigator coming back in and points him out as the man who was watching them. Joe doesn’t say he ran into him. Minutes later, Howard Fieldstone comes in. He sits with them for a few minutes and Joe mentions Mrs. Gillespie had lost a husband. Fieldstone says Joe’s mistaken, that she’s been a widow twice. But he hopes she has better luck with the third. Joe comments that Fieldstone looks the picture of health and bets he could even pass an insurance physical. Fieldstone says he has no use for insurance, but as a matter of fact, Mrs. Gillespie had wanted him to get a phusical and he said he wouldn’t do it unless she had one too, so they both had one that very morning. That night, in their room, he gets a call from the realtor reporting that the house has been sold, even though the couple had told him not to say anything. Joe rushes over to confront her, because he didn’t “want that little old man to walk into a death trap.” He arrives to find no one there but the realtor. He tells Joe that they’re already gone to get married and go on their honeymoon. And they hadn’t told anyone where they intended to go. The other man who had been following Joe around barges in next, demanding to know where Mrs. Gillespie is. Joe tells them they’re both gone. The man says, “Now that it won’t do any good, maybe you’ll talk to me.” He hands Joe his business card and introduces himself as Saunders. Yes, he’s an insurance investigator, all right, but from a completely different company. Joe asks why the other company would be interested in Mrs. Gillespie, his target. Saunders reveals he’s been checking up on Fieldstone. Apparently, he has had FOUR wives, all of whom died in the bathtub on the honeymoon. Joe tells Saunders his target has had two husbands die and get cremated before anyone could find out how they were poisoned. Saunders comments, “Well, they sort of deserve each other, don’t they?” and says since they kept their destination a secret, there’s nothing either of them can do. They sit, defeated and Joe says, “Well, I suppose it all depends on whether she takes her bath before he eats breakfast.” Saunders says, “Or vice versa.”