Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955–1962)
When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.
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Title: Lamb to the Slaughter (13 Apr 1958)
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Cast
| Episode complete credited cast: | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock | ... | Himself - Host | |
| Barbara Bel Geddes | ... | Mary Maloney | |
| Harold J. Stone | ... | Lieutenant Jack Noonan | |
| Allan Lane | ... | Patrick Maloney | |
| Ken Clark | ... | Mike - Policeman assistant | |
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Robert C. Ross | ... | Forensic doctor |
| William Keene | ... | Fingerprint policeman | |
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Thomas Wilde | ... | Photographer policeman (as Thomas Wild) |
| Otto Waldis | ... | Sam | |
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Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and an exceptional housekeeper. One day, her husband, the police chief, announces that he wants a divorce because he has met another woman. Mary is quite angry and kills him with a blow from a frozen leg of lamb. She calls the police and provides an alibi for herself with the story that she'd been out to the store when the murder took place. The investigating officer, Lieutenant Noonan, is further frustrated when he cannot find the murder weapon. Written by Anonymous
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13 April 1958 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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Himself - Host: He gave me this ticket for blocking an aisle during the rush hour. I don't understand. I was in the slow lane. I just stopped a moment at the condiment shelf where the store's have a get-acquainted sale on 'Low Calorie Calories'. Tonight's play is not unrelated to this milieu. It is called "Lamb to the Slaughter", but before we see it, the store has asked that I direct your attention to their very ...
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This was the first of six episodes either written by Roald Dahl or based on a story written by him. See more »Quotes
[introduction, Hitchcock is in a supermarket where a cop gives him a ticket and walks off camera]Himself - Host: He gave me this ticket for blocking an aisle during the rush hour. I don't understand. I was in the slow lane. I just stopped a moment at the condiment shelf where the store's have a get-acquainted sale on 'Low Calorie Calories'. Tonight's play is not unrelated to this milieu. It is called "Lamb to the Slaughter", but before we see it, the store has asked that I direct your attention to their very ...
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I love the Lamb to the Slaughter one too, but honestly every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents was just great!
I love b/w TV and movies as well. I love all the Twilight zone episodes too, ahhhh back then they made great TV. Too bad TV is not like that now, now you see guts everywhere, blood splattering, rape you name it; back then the censors forced TV and movies to use a lot of imagination and cool techniques to create feelings of horror or eeriness and sexuality. there was so much more creativity back then!