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"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" Hangover (1962)


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"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962): Season 1: Episode 12 -- An alcoholic who is fired from his job has a difficult time remembering recent events.

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7.4/10   39 votes
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Writers:
John D. MacDonald (short story)
Lou Rambeau (teleplay)
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Original Air Date:
6 December 1962 (Season 1, Episode 12)
Plot:
Hadley Purvis (Tony Randall), an advertising man, finds himself facing a divorce if he doesn't knock off his heavy drinking... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Alfred Hitchcock ... Himself - Host

Tony Randall ... Hadley Purvis

Jayne Mansfield ... Marion
Robert P. Lieb ... Bill Hunter (as Robert Lieb)
Myron Healey ... Bob Blake
Tyler McVey ... David A. Driscoll
James Maloney ... Cushman
June Gale ... Saleslady (as June Levant)
William Phipps ... Bartender
Chris Roman ... Cliff
Richard Franchot ... Albert
Dodie Heath ... Sandra Purvis (as Dody Heath)
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USA:60 min
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"Hangover" is the only episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour based on two unique short stories: John D. MacDonald's 1956 "Hangover" (published in Cosmopolitan) and Charles Runyon's 1960 "Hangover" (published in Manhunt). more

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The Hangover, 28 October 2006
4/10
Author: Darryl from Los Angeles

Not the best entry in the hour Hitchcock series. Tony Randall was fine, but this "play" progressed quite slowly; would've been better- suited for one of Hitch's 30 minute episodes a la "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." The single-most redeeming aspect of "The Hangover" was the sight of voluptuous Jayne Mansfield. Shedding her usual gargantuan, stiff hairdo, she sported a short,Italian cut popular at the time. I don't think she ever looked more attractive. Her acting was very decent; actually, I'd say it was quite good.

The show ended with Hitchcock preaching against the evils of alcoholism.This message was quite ironic,I thought, because in the majority of his two series-- hundreds of episodes, I would venture to speculate, one or more characters eventually grabbed a bottle of booze and mixed a drink in their home in suburbia or sat at a public bar and tossed back a few. In its own way, the show PROMOTED drinking/alcoholism-- just as it did smoking (as did many movies and TV shows of that era).

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