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Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Shopping for Death
| Shopping for Death | |
| Season 1, Episode 18 | |
| Airdate | January 29, 1956 |
| Teleplay by | Ray Bradbury |
| Story by | Ray Bradbury |
| Directed by | Robert Stevens |
| ← 1x17 The Older Sister |
1x19 → The Derelicts |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Season One | |
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Shopping for Death is the eighteenth episode of the first season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Starring: Jo Van Fleet (Mrs. Shrike)
Additional Cast: Robert Harris (Mr. Foxe), John Qualen (Mr. Shaw), Mike Ross (Mr. Shrike), Michael Ansara (Butcher), Alfred Linder (), Charlotte Knight (), Lee Erickson (), Jack Tesler (), Laiola Wendorff (), Ralph Montgomery (), Bob Morgan ()
Uncredited: Alfred Hitchcock (Host)
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Plot Overview
Two retired insurance sales clerks test their theory that people become killers when the temperature reaches 92 degrees when they observe, then deal with Mrs. Shrike, a shrewish, middle-aged alcoholic woman who antagonizes everyone she encounters during a heat wave. The agents try advising the quarrelsome and hostile Mrs. Shrike to change her ways, but she refuses and lashes out at them. Figuring Mrs. Shrike a lost cause, the agents leave shortly before the return of her husband Mr. Shrike, who kills her (off-camera) shortly after when he has enough of her harridan behavior and snaps.
Notes
Trivia
The Show
- This episode, written by Ray Bradbury, was remade for his Ray Bradbury Theater in 1990 as "Touched with Fire"
