This is a great episode with the great actress Eileen Heckert. I've loved her acting chops ever since I saw her as the mom of the little dead boy in The Bad Seed.
Eileen isn't getting any younger as she lives with her ailing and controlling mother. She's finally fed up and stands up to Mom one night when Mom has her rush back from her date pretending to have had a heart attack. Even the doctor has had enough of mom. He encourages her to stop letting her mom control her and to go ahead on with her life, get married and be happy.
He gives Eileen some sleep medicine and tells her to take one teaspoon into the tea for her mother so she'll sleep through the night.
Coincidentally, the boyfriend gives her an ultimatum to make a decision tonight or I'm out of here.
Because this is Hitchcock, murder is always the only solution. She gives mom two whopping tablespoons in her tea after Mom tells her she thinks the boyfriend is after her money and if she marries him she'll redo her will.
Wouldn't you know it, mom was living off an annuity and when she's dead the money stops.
She stages the finding of her mother's body without a hitch. And after a little fear that Mom was right about her boyfriend only wanted money, gets married.
They need to come home immediately after the wedding and before a honeymoon only to find yet another mama invalid in bed. Telling her she's so glad she had so much experience with her mother so she can take care of her.
The look on her face. Mama calls her to come and help her to move because she's in a lot of pain and is uncomfortable. And Eliene tells her new hubby, perhaps mama will need some medicine to help her sleep through the night.
Eileen isn't getting any younger as she lives with her ailing and controlling mother. She's finally fed up and stands up to Mom one night when Mom has her rush back from her date pretending to have had a heart attack. Even the doctor has had enough of mom. He encourages her to stop letting her mom control her and to go ahead on with her life, get married and be happy.
He gives Eileen some sleep medicine and tells her to take one teaspoon into the tea for her mother so she'll sleep through the night.
Coincidentally, the boyfriend gives her an ultimatum to make a decision tonight or I'm out of here.
Because this is Hitchcock, murder is always the only solution. She gives mom two whopping tablespoons in her tea after Mom tells her she thinks the boyfriend is after her money and if she marries him she'll redo her will.
Wouldn't you know it, mom was living off an annuity and when she's dead the money stops.
She stages the finding of her mother's body without a hitch. And after a little fear that Mom was right about her boyfriend only wanted money, gets married.
They need to come home immediately after the wedding and before a honeymoon only to find yet another mama invalid in bed. Telling her she's so glad she had so much experience with her mother so she can take care of her.
The look on her face. Mama calls her to come and help her to move because she's in a lot of pain and is uncomfortable. And Eliene tells her new hubby, perhaps mama will need some medicine to help her sleep through the night.