The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Cadaver
Introduction
"The Cadaver" was originally broadcast on 29/Nov/1963 as part of the second season of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Synopsis
Medical student Skip Baxter has a drinking problem and a practical jokester for a roommate named Doc Carroll. Doc wants Skip to quit drinking and cooks up a scheme. He takes a cadaver from the medical school morgue and dresses it to look like a waitress named Ruby. He then puts it into Skip's bed as he is sleeping off a hangover. When Skip wakes up, he sees the body and becomes convinced he committed murder while drunk. He wraps the body in a rug and disposes of it. When he returns to school, he finds out that Ruby is alive and that Doc has gotten into trouble for stealing a cadaver. Skip agrees to replace the body to get Doc out of trouble. At the next anatomy class, however, the professor reveals the replacement cadaver to be the body of Doc Carroll. (TV.com)
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Gordon Hessler - associate producer
- Norman Lloyd - executive producer
- Charles Russell - producer
Written by:
- Robert Arthur - story
- James Bridges - teleplay
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Himself - Host
- Michael Parks — cast: Skip Baxter
- Ruth McDevitt — cast: Mrs. Fister
- Joby Baker — cast: Doc Carroll
- Martin Blaine — cast: Professor Dawson
- Jennifer West — cast: Ruby
- Don Marshall — cast: Tom Jackson
- William Sharon — cast: Sam - Bartender
- Bronwyn FitzSimons — cast: The Girl Student
- Eric Matthews — cast: Charlie Pitts
- George Dockstader — cast: The Garbage Collector
- Rafer Johnson — cast: Ed Blair
- Jeff Cooper — cast: Pete Phillips
- Michael Beirne — cast: Jim Thompson
- Bob Bernard — cast: The 1st Student
- Brooke Hayward — cast: Barbara Simms
Cinematography by:
- John F. Warren - director of photography
Edited by:
