This little number comes to us from the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" show. I remember catching old reruns on TV when I was a kid. Lyle Endicott (Darren McGavin, who played the Dad in A Christmas Story) gets fired from his job as Assistant Curator at a museum. On his way out, he overhears one of the museum's benefactors mention that her live-in companion is leaving soon. This particular lady, Ms. Martha Cheney (Patricia Collinge), is in possession of a priceless vase that she inherited from her father. Endicott worms his way into her life in an effort to find the vase, making the infirm old woman a prisoner in her own home.
Seeing as this is Hitchcock, of course, this backfires on him in a spectacular way.
Despite the recognizability of the cast, Hitch is the star of this show. His lead-in and closing bits are warm, funny, and just the slightest bit dark. Just the way I like it.
I couldn't find a poster just for the episode "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". It's only about a half hour long with commerical breaks. This one I know I've seen before.A circus magician's wife (Diana Dors) convinces a teenage runaway with a problem seeing the difference between reality and fantasy (Brandon De Wilde) to murder her husband, the Great Sadini (David J. Stewart). This blows up in her face because crazy people are crazy and therefore unpredictable. That's why they shouldn't have access to giant saws.
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