Lamb to the Slaughter

Episode aired Apr 13, 1958
TV-14TV-14
30m

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

1.1K

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Barbara Bel Geddes in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Comedy Crime Drama

When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

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Barbara Bel Geddes, Ken Clark, William Keene, and Harold J. Stone in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Robert C. Ross and Harold J. Stone in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Ken Clark and Harold J. Stone in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Allan Lane in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

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Trivia
In the following season's offering Cheap Is Cheap (1959), a hit man describes having seen this TV program, and thinks it was a good way to bump someone off.

Goofs
When Mary lifts the leg of lamb up, she does it quickly, as if it didn't weigh much, like a murder club would.

Quotes
[introduction, Hitchcock is in a supermarket where a cop gives him a ticket and walks off camera]
Himself - Host: He gave me this ticket for blocking an aisle during the rush hour. I don't understand. I was in the slow lane. I just stopped a moment at the condiment shelf where the store's have a get-acquainted sale on 'Low Calorie Calories'. Tonight's play is not unrelated to this milieu. It is called "Lamb to the Slaughter", but before we see it, the store has asked that I direct your attention to their very best bargain.
[commercial break]

Connections
Featured in TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes of All Time (2009)

Soundtracks
Funeral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod

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10/10

Hitchcock's Best

I have seen every episode more then once. This is the best IMO.

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