The Cheney Vase

Episode aired Dec 25, 1955
TV-14TV-14
25m

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7.0/10

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Patricia Collinge, George Macready, and Darren McGavin in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Comedy Crime Drama

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

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Carolyn Jones and Darren McGavin in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Ruta Lee in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Patricia Collinge and Darren McGavin in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

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Trivia
This episode is included on certain DVD editions for Alfred Hitchcock's 'Young and Innocent' (1937).

Goofs
The small white sink mounted on the wall in Martha's room has no drain or trap under it.

Quotes
[first lines]
Alfred Hitchcock: [holding a voodoo doll and a hypodermic needle] Oh, oh, good evening. I was just about to send greetings to an old friend. I'm sure modern, civilized methods of homicide are much more efficient, but I don't care for them. I abhor violence. That is why on this program, we use stabbings, shootings, and garrotings only when they are absolutely essential to the plot, or when the whim strikes us. Tonight's play begins in a museum. And the title is "The Cheney Vase." That's all I intend to tell you. You'll have to figure the rest out for yourselves. And now our sponsor wishes to say a few words designed to send you rushing out immediately to buy his products. But please endeavor to restrain yourselves. I don't want you to miss our story.

Connections
Featured in Alfred Hitchcock: More Than Just a Profile (2005)

Soundtracks
Funeral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod

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8/10

Great episode featuring the return of Darren McGavin.

Lyle Endicott (Darren McGavin) is a shifty museum curator who has just been fired from his job, due to laziness. However, he sees dollar signs if he can obtain and old Cheney vase from the wealthy Martha Cheney (Patricia Collinge) who offers a lot of her old belongings to the museum. Lyle manages to take full advantage of the vulnerable Martha, but, he will learn taking the vase won't be as easy as he thinks.

This is just and all around fun episode with Darren McGavin returning to the series to play a wonderfully awesome scumbag manipulator. Everything from the cast to just the way the episode builds itself up in its 25 short minutes in great. As for the twist its defiantly pretty clever. This one also seems to be the most easily obtainable outside of the series itself because I'm pretty certain its in the public domain. Also nice to see a young pre-Addams Family Carolyn Jones as McGavin's girlfriend in this to.

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