9/7/2023 0 Comments Alfred hitchcock hour episodes![]() ![]() Hearing about a German nurse who was suspected of killing an infant in San Francisco by lacing the bottle with poison, Joyce decides to contact the grieving parents to inquire about the now missing nanny. The strangely edgy Frieda offers no references to Joyce, and gives her a phony name for a previous employer. A young Los Angeles couple, Dexter Dailey (Jeremy Slate) and wife Joyce (Kathryn Hays), hire Dexter's old nursemaid Frieda (Lilia Skala) to help care for their newborn son. "One of the Family" is a potentially terrifying episode, not recommended for first time parents. As things are, it's still a fairly engrossing 60-minutes. ![]() Anyway, a tighter climax could have lifted the episode to first-rank. Slate (a Steve McQueen look-a-like) mainly fills out story requirements as the affable husband, while Skala and Deering get to show their chops. As usual, the performances are A-grade, but it's really Hays who gets the screen time. Thus, impact of the ace build-up is spread out and weakened. But then the climax is dragged out with too much talk that I'm afraid amounts to padding-always a pitfall for an hour-long weekly series like Hitch. The entry builds good tight suspense in driving toward the climax. So what's Hays to do-she can't fire her husband's childhood nanny, plus hubby thinks the wife's just overreacting. ![]() At the same time, Hays' child is suddenly undergoing mysterious illnesses. Then, when a suspicious Hays quizzes Skala about her previous employer, she lies. Hays gets concerned when a toddler is poisoned in San Francisco by a nanny turned fugitive. Skala's got to be reliable since she was Slate's German nanny when he was a baby. Upscale young couple (Slate & Hays) hires a nanny (Skala) to take care of their infant son, so they can travel more. ![]()
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