Marchand, but mistakes Ray for being her son rather than her husband. Nyla immediately recognizes the car as belonging to Mrs. AHP’s usual excellence prevailed, though, and it was a good ride. This might have doomed the episode in any other series because it was on my mind every second she was on the screen. ![]() I mean, it’s fortunate that she isn’t 12 as in the novel, but 30 is simply too old for this role. Wait, unfortunately, this Lolita is 30 years old. The Bait must be of the Jail variety - out comes blonde Lolita, Nyla Foster. Handsome young stud Ray Marchand pulls up to the Bait and Tackle store in a car the size of the Nimitz. Posted in TV | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 5 Replies Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Hooked (09/25/60) For info on the real plot and production, check out bare*bones ezine.Alice returns to the cold reality of a Bensonhurst dental office warmed only by the puzzling realization that her fantasy-lover’s name of Bixby was so close to that of her best friend Trixie. Bixby is drilling his hygienist, and not in the mouth. However, she is in love with the Colonel and he gives her expensive gifts.Īs she waking up from the dentist’s sedation, her fantasy world begins to unravel. He is also investing in a string of polo ponies which she recalls once inexplicably set her husband off in a rage. This second fantasy man, like her brutish husband, wears a uniform just not one with a bus on the back. Bixby’s self-esteem that she cannot fully escape her husband’s grasp. Once again, however, years of insults and verbal threats of violence have so deflated Mrs. The titular Colonel has a spacious horse farm and is retired from a successful military career. Seeking to further remove herself from her miserable reality, she fantasizes that she is also desired by a second man. Yet, there are still inescapable traces of her dull life and abusive husband as the dentist has money problems and ignores her for bowling. She has no first name credited, she is just Mrs. She is so immersed in this fantasy that “Alice” no longer exists. She dreams of being married to her dentist, rather than a fat, surly bus driver. Alice is in the dentist’s chair, knocked out by Nitrous Oxide or perhaps her dentist had leftover salmon for lunch. Clearly this episode is an hallucination of Alice Kramden. Bixby is played by Audrey Meadows from The Honeymooners. She gets off the train and is chauffeured to the stately home of the titular Colonel with whom she shares a long kiss. She says if she were home, he would probably just go bowling anyway. She tells him he can live without her for 2 days each month. He also isn’t happy that his wife is going again on an overnight trip to visit her aunt. Despite being a doctor, they always seem to be in debt. Also the washing machine needs fixing, and they have just gotten a bill from the IRS. ![]() The bad news is that she brought leftover salmon, the fishiest of fishes and avoided by four out of five dentists at lunch. Bixby’s wife comes to the office with his lunch and bad news. My God, those fingers could have been anywhere!ĭr. This is just a jerk actor cramming his mitts into some poor struggling actress’ mouth. The real revulsion, however, comes in realizing this isn’t a real dentist. There are instruments and swabs stuffed in her mouth, and the whir of the old-fashioned drill is spine-tingling. Director Alfred Hitchcock gets things off to a frightful start as we get a close-up on the face of some uncredited sap in the dentist chair.
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