Alfred hitchcock presents season 63/24/2024 ![]() ![]() There’s only one true temporal ellipse, not including the omission of small fractions of time that don’t need to be seen by more modern audiences. What’s impressive here is that the unity of time and space is sustained through a large portion of the story in the jail. It’s very clear to see that this and all the other episodes of this show were basically in three-act structure. All I remembered beside that was the dread suspense, which was still there many years later with a lot of added nuance. However, that part omitting the bribe attempt is what I recalled. The thought of being stuck in a cell for jaywalking (bribe attempt or no bribe attempt) was terrifying enough in and of itself. What I had recalled most vividly was the beginning. ![]() The suspect has no designs on waiting to be lynched though, he overpowers the sheriff tricking him and getting out of his cell then forces Gorwald to trade clothes with him. Eventually there are fears that a lynch mob is forming to raid the jail the police try and make arrangements to transport the prisoners. ![]() After a bit a suspected murderer (Richard Jaeckel) is brought in. In a clumsy attempt to bribe the stickler cop (Ron Nicholas) he is hauled off to jail. A salesman, Leon Gorwald (John Fiedler), is cited for jaywalking. The premise of the story is fairly simple. It was actually only seeing this blogathon announced that I discovered what its name was and in what season it aired (as it turns out its the most-recently distributed in the US, Season six).ĭue to this fact, I had the unusual pleasure of seeing it for the first time in eons, and one tremendous development was that it still affected me greatly however, I had entirely forgotten the ending – but I’ll get to that.įor now, my impressions on the episode both then and now. Amazingly Hitch didn’t handle this particular episode, but like almost all the stories they definitely bore his stamp.Īs Alfred Hitchcock Presents became one of the select TV shows I started collecting seasons of on DVD, I began to search for this episode, amongst others. I even have a partially drafted take on Hitchcock’s turns directing the show he produced and hosted, so it really is something I’ve anticipated. So, finally I have returned to discussing television. That is because this particular episode more than any other on any show lodged itself in my (sub)consciousness and was intermittently lost through the years as I’d forget about it then recall it again.Īlso, I’m grateful for this opportunity to discuss this episode in part because a while ago I introduced the concept of Cinematic Episodes, and except for two entries I’ve not revisited it. There will be some reminiscing involved because my history with this episode is much of why I like it, but by no means all. Rather than allow excessive amounts of nostalgia to get mixed into this post I will leave that an open-ended question. Maybe being able to pick over selections from the initial Golden Age of television had something to do with it, or maybe memories were longer then. In the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, when I was quite young and did most of my Nick at Nite watching, it seemed they stretched a bit further back for shows than nostalgia, re-run based stations do now. Alfred Hitchcock Presents “Incident in a Small Jail” S6E23 ![]()
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