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What was the last TV show you watched?

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Watched a couple of episodes of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour:"

The first, "The Hangover" has Tony Randall playing an alcoholic advertising exec whose alcoholism is destroying his marriage and his career - think TV's "Mad Men" meets "The Lost Weekend." This was a powerful episode - doesn't shy away from the destruction that alcoholism can bring nor the soullessness that some in advertising feel - that argues that not all TV was fluff back in the early '60s.

The second one, "An Out for Oscar," has Larry Storch playing a shy bank teller who marries a manipulative gold-digger down on her luck. Once again, punches aren't held back - plenty of human nature's not-pretty side is on display and there is a very neat trick at the end.

I chuckle when after a perfect crime or murder is committed in one of these episodes - and it is clear that the person got away with it - Hitchcock always come on to tell us that the police finally caught up with him or her. It is so clear that this is done for the sensors (real or social pressure at the time), but that the real story is how it ended before Hitchcock come one.
 

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