The BEST episodes written by Robert Arthur

The Cadaver
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7.67
9 votes

#1 - The Cadaver

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 8

Medical student Skip Baxter has an alcohol problem and a practical joke playing roomate named Doc Carroll. Doc wants Skip to quit drinking and cooks up a scheme. He takes a cadaver from the medical school morgue and dresses it to look like a waitress named Ruth. He then puts it into Skip's bed as he is sleeping off a hangover. When Skip wakes up, he sees the body and becomes convinced that he committed murder in an alcoholic stupor. He wraps the body in a rug and disposes it. When he returns to school, he finds out that Ruby is alive and that Doc has gotten into trouble for stealing a cadaver. Skip agrees to replace the body to get skip out of trouble. At the next anatomy class, the professor reveals the replacement cadaver to be the body of Doc Carroll.

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Goodbye, George
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7.50
10 votes

#2 - Goodbye, George

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 10

Academy Award hopeful Lana Layne's past comes back to haunt her when her husband George, an ex-convict who she thought was dead, wants her back. She's not interested, but if she does divorce him, he would get half of everything. Then there's Haila French, a gossip columnist who wants an exclusive story, so she surprises Lana and her boyfriend with surprising results.

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The Jokester
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6.96
49 votes

#3 - The Jokester

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 3

A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.

Final Arrangements
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6.94
47 votes

#4 - Final Arrangements

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 36

Browbeaten husband seeks nothing but the best for his late-lamented wife. The most expensive casket from the best in the business, every detail attended to in the making of final arrangements. Just one item left of the to-do list: kill the wife.