Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Post Mortem (1958)
Season 3, Episode 33
5/10
Hot Ticket
13 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS***After winning the Irish Sweepstakes with a ticket worth a cool $133,000.00 Judy Archer's, Jonanna Moore, 1st husband Harry dropped dead from sheer excitement never having a chance to cash it in. It's later that Judy is contacted by the newspapers with the news that her late husband Harry won the big pot of cash. That had both her and her now husband insurance salesman Steve, Steve Forrest, searched out the entire house to find the ticket with no results. It was newspaperman Mr. Wescott, played by James Gergory the future step-father of the notorious Manchurian candidate, who seems to have a very big interest in the Archer's finding the lost ticket that was suspected to have been buried together with her late first husband.

Everyone except Mr. Wescott is in for a big surprise by the time this "Alfred Hitchcock Present" episode ends in that the winning sweepstakes ticket did ended up being buried together with Harry and that Mr. Archer was in fact responsible for his demise. Not only that Mr. Archer is now planning to do in his wife Judy to get his hands on the winning ticket in an accident he's planned for her to have in the bathtub while taking a bubble bath.

***SPOILERS*** This all backfires on Mr. Archer in that Mr. Wescott had his number in him really being an insurance investigator not salesman who suspected that Harry's death was no accident but a murder and he has the autopsy or post mortem papers to prove it. Being the butter fingered jerk that he is Archer screwed up in him trying to murder Judy -with Mr. Wescott's help- and after being arrested by the police he also lost the winning ticket that he had on him. That by his wife, that he planned to murder, Judy giving him a big sloppy kiss good-by as he was being lead away by the police to his new home in a prison jail-cell.
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