The Cadaver (29 Nov. 1963)

A college aid borrows a dead female body from the lab and plants it in his roommate's dorm to try and scare him sober, but the joke becomes disastrous.

Director:

Alf Kjellin

Writers:

Robert Arthur (story), James Bridges (teleplay)

Stars:

Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Parks, Ruth McDevitt

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself - Host
Michael Parks	...	Skip Baxter
Ruth McDevitt	...	Mrs. Fister
Joby Baker	...	Doc Carroll
Martin Blaine	...	Professor Dawson
Jennifer West	...	Ruby
Don Marshall	...	Tom Jackson
William Sharon	...	Sam - Bartender
Bronwyn FitzSimons	...	The Girl Student
Eric Matthews	...	Charlie Pitts
George Dockstader	...	The Garbage Collector
Rafer Johnson	...	Ed Blair
Jeff Cooper	...	Pete Phillips
Michael Beirne	...	Jim Thompson
Bob Bernard	...	The 1st Student

Storyline

Medical student Doc Carroll decides to play a practical joke on his drunken roommate, Skip. He plants a cadaver from the medical school in Skip's bed and convinces him he killed their friend, Ruby. The joke works much better than Doc had hoped.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 November 1963 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shamley Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Dead in Bed

***SPOILERS*** Known as the class comedian medical student Doc Carroll, Joby Baker, plans to pull a practical joke and his friend and roommate in collage Skip Baxter, Michael Parks, when his drinking gets out of hand at a collage Halloween party. With Skip out cold after consuming two dozen bottles of beer he finds himself the next morning his his room with a dead body in his bed. Told by a shocked Doc that he drank himself silly and took the bar waitress Ruby, Jennifer West, home and in a drunken rage strangled her!

Trying to hide the body and keep from being arrested for murder Skip the star halfback on the collage football team starts to miss his practice sessions concentrating more on what to do with the dead body in his room then his football obligations for the team. Trying to get rid of the corpse Skip while driving around town ends up at Mrs. Fisher's, Ruth McDevitt, house who offers him a drink breakfast and a bright idea. Mrs.Fisher telling Skip that today is the day that they pick up the garbage he decides to dismember the body put it in paper and plastic bags and have the garbage man dispose of it!

What Skip didn't know was that the corpse he found in his bed wasn't that of Ruby but of a stiff from the morgue that Doc kid or corpse napped in order to teach him a lesson in not getting himself drunk and making a complete a** of himself in public! But now with the joke now over Doc desperately needs to return the corpse to the morgue that he's in charge of before his boss Professor Dawson, Martin Blaine, finds out that it's missing.

***SPOILERS*** Doc not knowing that the dead body has been hacked to pieces and disposed at the local garbage dump tells Skip about it. Skip in him finding out about the joke Doc pulled on him he now has only one choice to solve Doc's very pressing problem. Get a new dead body to replaced the now missing and chopped to pieces old one. And you can just guess who's body Skip has in mind!