Often, I have noticed that many of the one hour episodes of Alfred Hitchcock's show simply didn't have enough story to justify the 60 minute time slot. As a result, a few of the episodes really drag. "Triumph", however, is quite the opposite...an episode which might have worked as a 90 or even 120 minute program but didn't work at 60 minutes because so much of the story seemed missing. As a result, some of the story just didn't make sense...as if important parts were edited out of the story.
The Fitzgibbons (Ed Begley and Jeanette Nolan) are medical missionaries to some far off country (it seems like India but they never mentioned the place by name)....much like the famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer. However, unlike Schweitzer, Mr. Fitzgibbons is an incompetent doctor and his wife often works to hide this. This part of the story is completely unnecessary and really confuses the story.
The Spragues are missionaries who have come to visit the Fitzgibbons family. However, Mrs. Fitzgibbons is an angry, strange woman who thinks the Spragues are there to 'steal' their mission for themselves. This is confusing, since Mrs. Fitzgibbons is very possessive of the mission...yet she seems to hate her husband and even the work they do.
Where does all this go? Well, to very strange places indeed. I'd like to say it made a lot of sense...but it didn't. What was really confusing was Begley's actions late in the show...as well as Mrs. Sprague's. Overall, a very confusing episode that left me feeling a bit unsatisfied because the story simply didn't work and seemed to need a big re-write.
The Fitzgibbons (Ed Begley and Jeanette Nolan) are medical missionaries to some far off country (it seems like India but they never mentioned the place by name)....much like the famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer. However, unlike Schweitzer, Mr. Fitzgibbons is an incompetent doctor and his wife often works to hide this. This part of the story is completely unnecessary and really confuses the story.
The Spragues are missionaries who have come to visit the Fitzgibbons family. However, Mrs. Fitzgibbons is an angry, strange woman who thinks the Spragues are there to 'steal' their mission for themselves. This is confusing, since Mrs. Fitzgibbons is very possessive of the mission...yet she seems to hate her husband and even the work they do.
Where does all this go? Well, to very strange places indeed. I'd like to say it made a lot of sense...but it didn't. What was really confusing was Begley's actions late in the show...as well as Mrs. Sprague's. Overall, a very confusing episode that left me feeling a bit unsatisfied because the story simply didn't work and seemed to need a big re-write.