Regular viewers of this series won't have any problem predicting the twist for this episode. You just have to keep your eye on the schemer instead of the intended victim. I don't know why Hubert Winter (George Grizzard) had his girlfriend (Barbara Baxley) go into that whole Princess Artiti business; any psychic worth their salt wouldn't need a cover like that. This story strays from the usual formula a bit when Miss Coulette (Baxley) gets cold feet and is horrified by the idea of Hubert killing his mother. For her part, maybe Sophie Winter's (Patricia Collinge) plan was a little too perfect, and might have worked if Hubert's gal pal hadn't called the police. I guess she wasn't quick enough to down her own glass of wine, as Hitchcock's epilogue suggested she got hauled up short by the cops who arrived too late for Hubert, but just in time to arrest his Mom for murder.
One trivia note regarding actor George Grizzard. For some reason, I'm able to recall that I saw him in the very first episode of Boris Karloff's "Thriller" program. That series debuted only a few months after this Hitchcock episode aired, and in the story titled 'The Twisted Image', Grizzard portrays a mentally disturbed man who unravels bit by bit until by the end of the story, he's pretty much convinced that he's the character portrayed by Leslie Nielsen!
One trivia note regarding actor George Grizzard. For some reason, I'm able to recall that I saw him in the very first episode of Boris Karloff's "Thriller" program. That series debuted only a few months after this Hitchcock episode aired, and in the story titled 'The Twisted Image', Grizzard portrays a mentally disturbed man who unravels bit by bit until by the end of the story, he's pretty much convinced that he's the character portrayed by Leslie Nielsen!