An Unlocked Window

Episode aired Feb 15, 1965
49m

7.9/10

S3.E17

A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.

7.9/10

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Director
- Joseph M. Newman
Writers
- James Bridges(teleplay)
- Ethel Lina White(story)
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Louise Latham in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

T.C. Jones and Dana Wynter in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

The third in a series of murders over the previous two weeks is reported on television and local police reveal there's a psychotic madman who preys only on live-in nurses on the loose. One dark and stormy night, Nurse Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are tending to their client, a man with a heart condition who resides in a creepy old mansion just outside of town and needs constant attention. A phone call from the murderer informs the women that he knows they're alone and intends to pay them a visit before the night is over. Checking to make sure all the doors and windows are locked, Stella suddenly realizes that she overlooked a basement window - a mistake that might prove all too costly. —alfiehitchie

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Trivia
The "Psycho" house on the Universal Studios lot is used for the house's exterior.

Goofs
In a brief exterior camera shot outside the house, Stella is seen looking out into the stormy night through a ground-floor window. The window she looks through contains only two window panes - an upper and a lower. When the scene shifts indoors, the same window suddenly is divided into four panes.

Connections
Referenced in Psycho's Sister: Making 'The Name of the Game Is Kill' (2013)

Top review

8/10

Hitch knew how to scare on TV, too...

This was the first episode that I ever watched from that famous serial "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" - and it SURE made me want to see more of it! Once again, just like he did on the big screen, Hitch pulls out all the stops to scare the *beep* out of us on TV as well... Only the identity of the maniac murderer was a bit obvious almost from the beginning; but the ending certainly wasn't!

Here, Hitch revived all the elements of the good old 'isolated mansion mystery' that had been so popular 30 years before - and with great care, and with great success! The atmosphere is UNIQUELY creepy, and the running time of less than an hour leaves absolutely NO space for boredom; so, if you're not the kind that gets scared easily, don't miss this great example of 'entertainment, Hitchcock style'!

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