S2E1
A Home Away from Home
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · 1963-09-27 · 51 min
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what happens
The mentally ill Dr. Fenwick is a supporter of the therapeutic value of role-playing in psychiatry. He kills the head of the sanatarium where he is a patient and assumes the man's identity. He locks doctors and nurses in the attic and gives their responsibilities to other patients. Things run rather smoothly until Natalie Rivers, the neice of the now dead head of the sanatarium, arrives for a visit. Since she has never seen her uncle before Fenwick is able to trick her into thinking that he is her uncle. Natalie discovers her real uncle's body and, not knowing who he is, asks Fenwick to call the police. He pretends to call the police and a patient pretending to be a detective shows up to look things over. Eventually Natalie discovers the staff locked in the attic. Fenwick tries to prevent her from telling anyone, but he is stopped by the police.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S2E1 →who made it
- directed
- Herschel Daugherty
- written
- Robert Bloch
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Ray Milland as Howard Fennick
Claire Griswold as Natalie Rivers
Mary LaRoche as Ruth
Virginia Gregg as Miss Gibson
Peter Leeds as Andrew
Ben Wright as Dr. Norton
Connie Gilchrist as Martha
Jackie Searl as Nicky Long