I watched a lot of reruns on Nick-at-Nite as a kid, especially Get Smart, Dragnet and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (I know, I was a weird little kid).
My all-time favorite Hitchcock episode was “Man from the South,” based on a short story by Roald Dahl and starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre, who creeped the hell out of me when I was little. Actually, he STILL creeps the hell out of me. I don’t know how the guy managed to be so simultaneously wimpy and menacing.
Anyways, one of those late-night Perpetual-Wiki-Loops led me to the full text of Dahl’s original story and the whole Hitchcock episode on YouTube. Here it is, in three parts:
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