I have been watching many episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" using my Roku and watching the shows on the Peacock app. However, I was surprised as I watched because they somehow mixed up the reels and they were shown in the wrong order! Try to find it elsewhere if you can!
The story is set in a weird Jetsons-like world where doors slide automatically and folks have elevators in their homes. They also have a secret 'thing' they can buy to make their lives better...a robot that is your exact double. Amazingly, the episode is supposed to be set in the mid-1960s!!
Charles (Norman Lloyd) hates his wife and his wife and he has found a solution....to buy an intelligent robot that looks and acts like him. His plan is to have the robot stay home with the wife while he's actually out carousing!! The plan seems perfect...but you KNOW that there is an awful (and well deserved) twist!
Although it's ridiculous for the episode not to have been set many decades in the future, it is most entertaining...even with the screwup by Peacock. And, it's also darkly humorous and one of the better episodes of season four.
The story is set in a weird Jetsons-like world where doors slide automatically and folks have elevators in their homes. They also have a secret 'thing' they can buy to make their lives better...a robot that is your exact double. Amazingly, the episode is supposed to be set in the mid-1960s!!
Charles (Norman Lloyd) hates his wife and his wife and he has found a solution....to buy an intelligent robot that looks and acts like him. His plan is to have the robot stay home with the wife while he's actually out carousing!! The plan seems perfect...but you KNOW that there is an awful (and well deserved) twist!
Although it's ridiculous for the episode not to have been set many decades in the future, it is most entertaining...even with the screwup by Peacock. And, it's also darkly humorous and one of the better episodes of season four.