This story would have been better placed as an episode of The Twilight Zone. Ralph Jones' (Dick York) 'visit' to the past can't be reconciled with the present by producing the baseball cards he got from the young kid Sidney (Michael Burns). TZ created the kind of aura where you could accept that idea as a conclusion to an odds defying story, but Hitchcock's programs were more or less grounded in the realities of a world following the laws of physics. However I did like the psychiatrist's (John Zaremba) analysis of Ralph's situation whereby he described stress as a relevant factor for Ralph's imagination to take over. Now if Ralph had slipped back in time to about thirty years prior, those baseball cards might have been worth something.
Review of The Doubtful Doctor
