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Miss Siddons is the new European history teacher at an all-girl college, and she is a bit shy at first. However, she quickly sorts out who the slackers are and who the model students are, and forms a particularly close bond to one girl named Gloria. Her perception of Gloria is altered when she witnesses her accompanying an older man into a night club and struggles to maintain an appropriate relationship with both Gloria and next door neighbor Ben Prowdy.

This episode is very awkward, and much of that awkwardness comes from the way in which the story is presented. Too much time is spent setting up the premise and some of the events which promise mystery and intrigue are quickly resolved and revealed as misunderstandings. The lessons revealed through the story of Miss Siddons - "don't judge a book by its cover" and "choose your friends wisely" - are taught haphazardly and result in a muddled story that is sometimes quite boring and ultimately a little bit confusing and unbelievable.

It takes an awful lot of time to tell this story which is actually pretty simple, and although the lessons to be taught are fine ones, this is really not one of the better episodes of season five.

It's a strange episode that meanders and it's never totally clear what the stakes are. When any complications in the story are resolved they are to little narrative effect. Maybe the episode played better in '59, but I doubt it. This is a very poorly structured episode.

This is perhaps the worst of all the episodes of this series, and I've seen most of them. We take a fragile teacher who has come from a horrible life in Europe. She is an English teacher and has rather strict rules. Gloria is her star pupil. She also has her issues. The problem for her is the guy across the hall whom she befriends and who turns on her. Usually in a Hitchcock story, someone who is sneaky, underhanded, or evil gets what's coming to them. Here she makes a mistake, getting too close to a student and trying to guide her. It's a big mistake, but her heart is in the right place. Putting things in writing when you are only speculating is bad news.

Briarstone. Wendy hiller--miss siddons gigi perreau--gloria.

Twist comes from out of left field.

"Graduating Class" is a terrible episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". The twist is stupid, it comes from out of left field and really makes little sense. I am surprised...because it really is THAT bad and seems to offer no lesson and really frustrated me.

Miss Siddons (Wendy Hiller) is a new literature teacher at some fancy girls school. One of her students, Gloria (Gigi Perreau), is really motivated and seems like a great student. And, when the show takes a very dark turn, it really doesn't seem to fit the story at all. Disappointing in every way about what happens next when Siddons spots the girl coming out of a strip club.

Alfred Hitchcock made and/or lent his name to quite a bit of material,and most of it was pretty good. The 'Alfred Hitchcock presents' shows were almost always much-better at 30 minutes than the 'Alfred Hitchcock hour' shows were. Many of the hour-long shows were simply too-long for the story being told. The hour-long shows were often chock-full of obvious filler material,time-wasting foolishness,dead-ends and other tiresome nonsense.

But this show here is the 30 minute show,the Alfred Hitchcock presents show. As a rule,these 30 minute shows were almost always much-tighter and much-better than the hour-long shows ever were.

These facts make the very-few bad 30 minute episodes stick out like a sore-thumb.

Such as this episode. This has to be the dullest,lamest,worst 'Alfred Hitchcock presents' episode that I've seen yet. The story here is very weak,it is downright silly in fact. It is not believable,because it simply doesn't ring true in any way. I didn't like it at all. Skip it.