Frugal Murder Is Not Easy "Cheap Is Cheap" | Hitchcock Presents

[@revk8611]

I love how the killer mentions another Alfred Hitchcock production about the frozen leg of lamb. Lol

[@southernsandra]

I know... lol. I watched that one as well..

[@Nixfix76]

Yea that was funny

[@eawe]

One of my favorite episodes.

[@jamesl9371]

This guy brings cheap to another level

[@par2go737]

Dennis Day, comedian from Jack Benny's programs, is surprisingly quite a good actor

[@lexasamuel5097]

These shows are so perfect in this pandemic..I’m never tired of them

[@asullivan4047]

How about during " Bozo biden's hyper inflation catastrophe-???🤔

[@Melly_6]

Lol leg of lamb, that was another Alfred Hitchcock episode with Barbara Bel Geddes

[@jaynestagg9460]

That was so so funny..eating the evidence.😄

[@agenttheater5]

You mean 'Lamb to the Slaughter'? Yeah, ever since I've seen the adaption of it done in 'Tales of the Unexpected' I've been wanting to see Alfred Hitchcock's version of it. I know he's also done 'The Man from the South' in both versions of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' which of course was also done in 'Tales of the Unexpected', still makes me surprised that Hitchcock never did 'Taste', Dahl's other story about an bet with ridiculous stakes.

[@AllenMacCannell]

You mean Mrs. Ewing from Southfork Ranch.

[@Brenda-cg1px]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that fourth wall break.

[@those_eyes]

Leg of lamb...I thought of that episode right away! Lol!!!

[@genepatterson4375]

What a delightful black comedy! Loved this.

[@carljasinto9420]

$33,000 in 1959 (when this episode was broadcast) is $297, 427 in 2021

[@R.Oates7902]

I can understand WHY the husband was protective of his money. That's a lot even back then, of course. I think the hitman or guy who supplied the poison would have turned Alex in if they got into any trouble with the cops. I just don't think he would have gotten away with it.

[@supritiphani1282]

Wow

[@roringusanda2837]

I was told to estimate the amounts back then by adding a zero, so for 30,000, I'd guess about 300, 000...so I guess it works pretty good.

[@zyxw2024]

$33,000 easily purchased a 3 to 4 bedrooms multi level house with a 2 car garage in the NYC suburban towns in 1959. $300,000 wouldn't do that now. Things are more expensive now than then.

[@guineapig4701]

I love those old coffee pots.

[@sjr7822]

My mother loved Dennis Day, he was great on the Jack Benny show, never heard any dirt on Dennis. He and his wife had 10 children. Dennis died too early of ALS at age 72 in 1988

[@ladylibertywdc8324]

This still photo here makes him look creepy enough for a true horror movie.

[@katherynemero4118]

I didn't know any of this about Dennis Day. I used to listen to old radio shows with my dad. Dennis was such a great singer. It was my favorite part of the show.

[@eg1197]

Love love Hitchcock Presents. Watching this during pandemic is keeping me entertained.

[@nettech1582]

Hitch a unique one of a king creative genius. His intro's themselves are a trip!

[@markkessler6163]

Me too!!!

[@ladylibertywdc8324]

entertained...

[@SuperCHERISHED]

Wow! The husband only loved money. He had no love for his wife. These short films are outstanding!

[@Belkys.]

Don't let anyone who has been on Extreme Cheapskates see this. They will get ideas.

[@nettech1582]

The episode is just a satirical take for "beyond being thrifty" Dennis Day brilliant!

[@Chutney1luv]

They probably already have! Do you know how old this is? 🙄

[@ronmackinnon9374]

'I saw this one on TV once. A dame....She clobbered her old man over the head with a frozen leg of lamb.' Really cute - 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' referencing one of its episodes in another. 😊

[@coryburns9161]

59 cents a pound

[@those_eyes]

With Barbara Bel Geddes

[@annettet329]

Great episode!

[@estellesilva1404]

I remember the leg of lamb episode one of my favorites 😅😅😅😅😅

[@llamapajama7840]

left over ham or lamb??

[@wtsnxt-kari509]

Why no whole episodes? It drives me crazy!

[@lovingmayberry2000]

The hitman's voice is crazy!

[@brettjones8622]

I think it is Ted Cassidy.Lurch from the Addams Family.🤌🤌

[@GBrimstone]

@brettjones8622 jack lambert

[@joeblow6478]

Only $500 to rub someone out? Danged inflation! It's nearly $20,000 now!

[@regionalunityproductions6204]

🤣🤣🤣

[@guineapig4701]

Thug has a beautiful voice.

[@davidhalldurham]

His name was Jack Lambert. Yeah, he had a great voice. Had a long career playing heavies and cowboys.

[@nettech1582]

DD BRILLIANT CHARACTER ACTOR. Made to order play for his performance. WOW!

[@paulcaron400]

Dennis Day, he also made appearances on the Jack Benny show. Had a great voice.

[@Chutney1luv]

OMG! This episode explained a lot! There have been people knocking off their spouses and relatives for a long time! This cheap murderer killed her and profited twice! Did they ever catch him? 🤔 Alfred H. always kept us hanging!😯

[@revk8611]

He took her to a medical school. They found the poison and that she was suffocated.

[@taylorj.6165]

@@revk8611 Exactly and he went to jail for being cheaper 🤣.

[@salanzaldi4551]

What's wrong with putting aside money for your old age? I am presently enjoying a comfortable retirement because I planned for my old age.

[@Pinkroses-summer23]

I feel the same way you do.

[@R.Oates7902]

I can relate. A friend is EXTEMELY CHEAP! A skinflint for sure. Got that from his mother!

[@polarodriguez3605]

🤣 Reminds me of my ex husband fr, still holds on to a shoebox of child support money order receipts & and our two children are in their mid forties!

[@megsarna7429]

😅

[@gmailrockmcbride49508]

Haha maybe he will throw it in their faces.and say they owe him.when he's old.and needs care lol weird

[@uninsurable9028]

I wonder if my ex-husband every destroyed the "file" he had on me with so-called incriminating information. Our kids are in their 30's.

[@jackieellenbarnes1268]

It’s hard to see Dennis Day being a Bad Guy after watching him on the Jack Benny Show.

[@buckeyeschmave]

That music at 6:30 ... like it's supposed to portray sweet relief .

[@Jasona1976]

I have a buddy who really IS this tight!

[@believeinpeace]

Absolutely, amazing expressions and acting from the mean man.

[@KCCardCo]

When he talks about the Dame clubbing her old man that was an actual Hitchcock episode with Barbara Bel Geddes.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/entertaining. Enjoy viewing 👀 those kitchen appliances from that era🤗.

[@Peter-sk5vg]

Brilliant stuff. Fabulous music BTW. So atmospheric illustrative and comical

[@RamonaHaygood]

My favorite. He was cheap. Made me laugh.😅😅😅😅😅

[@sandnerdaniel]

A nice ending would be if they would find the true cause of death in the medical school. Rod Serling would have written it this way.

[@helanesolomon1724]

I'm sure they will find out and the husband will go to jail. Hitchcock never let anyone get away with murder, I don't think!

[@sandnerdaniel]

​@@helanesolomon1724 He absolutely would. But they did not let him.

[@joanhall9381]

My guess is that that's exactly how this ended up. I don't think we're seeing the full ending of the episode here.

[@AllenMacCannell]

@@helanesolomon1724 - In this episode, Hitchcock did. He said the man was caught and "paid the heaviest price, in his case a large fine." So he didn't go to jail. A large fine would have been a worse punishment 😉

[@AllenMacCannell]

@@joanhall9381 it was the full ending. Hitchcock then explained he "paid a large fine when he was caught"

[@felicitypasquill9194]

What a brilliant actor, don't know who he is but i love him

[@beneaththecrust4661]

LOL@ reference to the lady hitting the man over the head with a turkey leg This was actually a plot in Alfred HItchock.

[@sjr7822]

sadly, not the complete episode

[@rosamariafs]

Yes.Why is not possible to warch the complete episody? Do you know where is possible to download them?

[@carrieanneatreides6240]

Totally free right now on Peacock TV.

[@donmoore7785]

@@carrieanneatreides6240 Thanks for the tip. I should have read the description.

[@carrieanneatreides6240]

Don Moore I didn’t notice the description! I saw “Presents” had disappeared from streaming services and a couple of weeks ago I found Peacock. Wanted to share. :)

[@brendancoulter5761]

500$ for a murder? An absolute bargain. Even assuming money was worth 10 times then what it is now 5000$ is nothing for a professional hit.

[@oldepersonne]

Odd that the doctor didn't send Jen to the hospital.

[@lukacunningham342]

But then think of all the plot that wouldn’t have happened!

[@asullivan4047]

That's ( Television Land )

[@amstel5468]

Such a funny one 👏

[@coyladuplessis2032]

A frozen Leg of lamb as a murder weapon goes back to a D H Lawrence story

[@donnamontgomery8127]

My old age began after I married you!

[@angelacoleman6580]

then the medical school found out that she had been poisoned.

[@whatzause]

Under 12 minutes????!!! Didn’t they show the whole thing? Why not? There are other scraps of shows on here too. Show the whole thing!

[@wtsnxt-kari509]

Yes!

[@ydcee3123]

Seems as if something is missing here. Husband didn't get his upcommance for the murder - all because of money. Usually the villain gets what is coming to them or Hitchcock tells us at the end that they didn't get away with it. Strange...

[@r.h.6084]

During the autopsy in the medical school, they find out that the woman was poisoned

[@lovingmayberry2000]

*comeuppance

[@sharyl727]

My guess is that the medical school autopsy will reveal that she was poisoned.

[@judethaddeus9856]

How did the Dr know there was any ham left??? Dude said his wife at the leftovers… as soon as the Dr took it upon himself to go into his kitchen he should have said « I threw the rest of the ham out », it would have saved a lot of trouble

[@qualqui]

LOL.....got out of paying funeral expenses and a burial plot 160 dollars vs. 75 dollars that the College gave him for poor Jennifer! XD

[@modestinemungo4661]

👀?. This is why u don't dig ditches for other people, You better dig one for you too.

[@barbarapaton4005]

Things were real cheap in those days! And he was complaining! Lol!!

[@modestinemungo4661]

Ooh lawd, my ex husband wasn't a cheapskate.. Now I'm terrified, absolutely scared 😱 to death to remarry! Oh heavens NO!!

[@RespectKarma87]

Lol. I love this episode...And what was she doing dusting in the back of the closet anyway? 🤔

[@ydcee3123]

What?😑

[@ladylibertywdc8324]

Old school best spring cleaning &/or just had an upright vacuum.

[@Laura-tp8wz]

She said she was dusting.

[@auggie803]

-Dust is everywhere,even in the back of a closet.

[@cbass2755]

Women in the past cleaned their home very proudly. Marrying, having children was their role. Man…when I was growing up all the women were proud running a household. That’s not an easy job. Every kid in my neighborhood followed the rules of the Mrs!

[@brocktoon8]

Glorious!

[@TheFiown]

My aunt and uncle lived like two poor mice on almost nothing and every week they put their money in the bank, penny by penny. They both died in a short space of time leaving their 'fortune' to their son thinking that he would continue in their footsteps BUT he spent the lot !

[@jamesl9371]

Very little chance of living and she is not in the hospital. The old days

[@jeremiahsams2848]

Well, it was only one sensible solution to his problem 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@Brenda-cg1px]

Aww, you cut out the part with the mad scientist :(

[@14catsand1human]

He is so cheap 😂😂😂

[@joematus410]

Love you

[@jessiejames7492]

that ham looks delicious

[@BrokebackBob]

She can't spend any of that money if the bank books are not in her name.

[@salwa6285]

Poor jennifer!

[@donbrown1284]

Not believable. 8:30 The doctor would have recommended the hospital.

[@nettech1582]

The episode is just a satirical take for "beyond being thrifty" Unrelated to real Dr.

[@Chutney1luv]

They didn't really have Hospitals back then that were affordable! That is why the Doctor made a house call!

[@tradeladder146]

Its just A Movie, its Hitchcock, just enjoy it .

[@donbrown1284]

@@tradeladder146 LOL..."Never let logic get in the way of a good yarn."

[@Acein3055]

Great episode and funny. The killer finally gets away with it and makes money too instead of getting ripped off by the mortuary. I thought that hitman might have been a cop on a sting. Since the husband was at the medical school I guess the medical school doesn't pickup so I guess he probably drove her there.😀 Wouldn't work these days. There's the lab report on the poisoned ham and the autopsy?

[@johnbannana480]

So happy someone else found it funny haha

[@jburnett7071]

😂 he is sooooo cheap

[@RamonaHaygood]

Got u busted. Being cheap😅😅😅

[@1romancatholic]

33 eh? ‘Over 33 k dollars”

[@jodyjojo1381]

Poor Jennifer. She should have moved silently

[@malvinderkaur4187]

Didn't i wrote a post about "cheapde" cheap is what cheap does.

[@joeblow6478]

I laughed when this guy didn't want to kill his wife with a leg of lamb... because it's 59 cents a pound. It's anywhere from $16 to $35 a pound today, depending on the cut. Either way, in his time, it was danged cheap to beat someone to death with a leg of lamb.

[@WilliamFoley-t4c]

Even back then the nausea that marriage produces,then vomit...

[@PumaLyn]

Single and independent! Happily single and independent.😂

[@donpeters9849]

C'mon man! I've been watching Alfred my entire life, so I need to ridicule...no hospitals???

[@maruthivardhan9]

A good murder with comedy

[@veckym9805]

Man is tied first I really hate it .

[@casiecalhoun1325]

It's cheaper to keep her lol

[@priscillavalentine5036]

Season 4, Episode 26.

[@mrcuda73]

Marriage between a spender and a saver is doomed. Jennifer is dead and she still spending my money, he found a way around that one.😅

[@marys1808]

Hahaha ha this is so funny

[@nassauguy48]

Wow, Dennis Day as a murderer!

[@agenttheater5]

Cheap skate.

[@tjmarx]

Imagine trying to divorce your husband for having a superannuation. lol

[@terrav6983]

I guess she didn't see it like that! Lol. However, I'm with her because I'm tired of counting pennies myself.

[@tjmarx]

@@terrav6983 He outright told her, of course she saw it like that. She just didn't care because her eyes rolled back in her head as soon as she saw a lump sum. If you're tired of counting pennies perhaps you should get a better paying job.

[@louisescanlon7478]

OMG Brillant but I Hate Him. So So Mean. Terrible Person 🤗

[@dividedwefall652]

Smooth criminal, always gets away with murder!

[@upstatenewyork]

😂😂

[@kimmccabe1422]

In reality the wife wld be the one offing the cheap husband lol

[@agenttheater5]

Cheapskate....

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[@RoderBrent]

Indoctrinated much?😂😂😂

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Amen