Newspaperman Bradley's habit of playing practical jokes puts morgue attendant Pop Henderson in danger of losing his job.Newspaperman Bradley's habit of playing practical jokes puts morgue attendant Pop Henderson in danger of losing his job.Newspaperman Bradley's habit of playing practical jokes puts morgue attendant Pop Henderson in danger of losing his job.
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- TriviaIn the morgue setting of this episode, the refrigerated drawers are kept below freezing. Normally, morgue drawers are just above freezing, the idea being to retard decay without freezing body tissues solid.
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[introduction - Hitchcock is standing next to a sign reading "The Hitchcock Rock"]
Self - Host: Good evening. It grieves me to announce that it will impossible for my cousin, Alvin Hitchcock, to entertain you with his singing. He fell victim to a crowd of teenage souvenir hunters. After first helping themselves to bits of his clothing, they began snipping off locks of his hair. He held still for that. After all, he certainly needed a haircut. But when they had exhausted his hair, they refused to stop snipping. He was very popular. This was all we found
[holds up guitar]
Self - Host: Tonight's program was to have included many of greatest hits - "I Dig You, Darling, 'Cause You're Sick, Sick, Sick", "The FBI's Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine", "Take Off Your Leather Jacket, Mother - You Shall Not Ride Tonight" and Tchaichovsky's Rock and Roll Concerto. Substituting for his concert is a play, "The Jokester". However, as a tribute to Alvin, let us first observe one minute of noise.
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
With the joke on Pop, who tried to get help for the obvious live corpse, it's soon recommended by the local police that he's a bit too old-at age 63-for the job. And with Pop's both eyesight and hearing just about gone it's later decided to have the old man take his retirement by his boss in the morgue Charles Watts. That's until it's discovered that Bradley pulled a joke on Pop and he's then given a second chance to keep his job taking good care of the dead in town. Bradley still up his old tricks later slips Millie, Claire Caleton, a peppered up drink at the local bar that almost has her choke to death. That has Millie's outraged boyfriend Mike the cab drive, James Kirkwood Jr, lay the drunken Bradley out with a straight right to the jaw.
***SPOILERS*** With Bradley not only out cold but not breathing a terrified Mike, who's now facing a manslaughter rap, together with the only whiteness at the scene Millie and bartender Baynes Barron dump his body at the docks and take all his identification off him. Thus making it look like Bradley was a drunken bum who lost his balance and fell on the pier cracking his head open after gulping a bottle of Yukon Jack. As "luck" would have it Bradley ends up in the county morgue with Pop Henderson attending after him. Still alive and pleading for help Bradley gets no help from Pop who leaves him to his fate, certain death, in the morgue refrigeration unit to freeze to death.
P.S As things turned out Bradley played his last joke with one of his victims Pop Henderson not willing to be fooled by him a second time around which would end up costing Pop his job! Even though this time around Bradley wasn't joking at all! He was dead serious!
- sol1218
- Dec 18, 2011
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- Runtime30 minutes
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