![]() Brent, formerly a police detective, who’s played a visit to a Major Cockfinch (Reginald Gardiner), who recently bought a house where a woman had been killed two years before. Set outside of London in 1903, the story must have appealed greatly to Hitchcock, as it is from a rather similar mold to his early film “The Lodger.” Here, Williams plays Mr. John Williams returns in “Banquo’s Chair,” broadcast on May 3, 1959. Hitchcock, meanwhile, discusses his new device for discouraging pickpockets: a snake in his coat pocket. The episode echoed season one’s “Breakdown,” as both feature a protagonist who cannot move, for very different reasons, of course. The master of suspense lets the suspense build slowly but surely in “Poison.” Until the very end, we’re not quite sure whether or not there is a snake in that bed, and when we find the answer, the snake does just what we want him to by poisoning the bad guy. Woods is poisoned, and there’s no way to reach the doctor in time. Yawning, he puts his head down on the pillow, and the snake strikes. Pope throws it in his face, but Woods shrugs it off and takes a seat on the bed. ![]() Still laughing at his former partner, Woods offers him a drink. Pope is certain that there was a snake, but Woods laughs it off, sending the doctor on his way. After waiting a few minutes, the doctor and woods gently pull the sheet back to find no snake. He decides to try putting the thing to sleep with chloroform, which he pours down a tube inserted under the bedsheets. The doctor arrives and administers the serum, but is still worried about the snake. Pope, struggling not to move or cough, has no choice but to agree. They decide to call for a doctor to come with venom antidote, and while they wait for the doctor, Woods torments Pope, threatening to tell his girlfriend about his alcoholism unless he gives up his half of the business. Woods decides to grab the thing, but Pope won’t let him. Woods laughs it off, saying that Pope is drunk as usual, but Pope insists that he’s not, and that he needs help. ![]() Pope swears that while he was reading, a poisonous snake slid into bed and curled up on his stomach, and that he’s been lying completely still for hours. He finds his business partner, Harry Pope (James Donald), lying rigidly in bed, covered in sweat. Set on the south sea island of Malaya, the story takes place after midnight as Timber Woods (Wendell Corey) returns to his quonset hut home after a party. The first is called “Poison,” based on a story by Roald Dahl, which aired on October 5, 1958. In season four of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” Hitch direct only two episodes. Continuing our look at episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” directed by the master of suspense, we move on to seasons four and five.
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