Poison

Episode aired Oct 5, 1958
TV-14
26m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

711

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James Donald in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Harry Pope awakens in bed to discover that there's a sleeping poisonous snake lying on his abdomen under the blanket.Harry Pope awakens in bed to discover that there's a sleeping poisonous snake lying on his abdomen under the blanket.Harry Pope awakens in bed to discover that there's a sleeping poisonous snake lying on his abdomen under the blanket.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

711

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Twenty-one years later, this same Roald Dahl story appeared in season 2 episode 5 (Poison (1980)) of what was then called "Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected", later just Tales of the Unexpected (1979).

Quotes
[introduction, Hitchcock is sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper]
Himself - Host: Good evening. Here we are in orbit once again. Most of tonight's program will be taken up with a story called 'Poison'.
[a hissing is heard and the camera cuts to Hitchcock's back pocket that happens to be...]
Himself - Host: A rattlesnake. It's a new warning device I've instituted to sound an alarm when a pickpocket is at work. He comes in several sizes, including very small ones for ladies' purses.
[Hitchcock pokes at the rattlesnake making it hiss again]
Himself - Host: He's very alert. This is far superior to ordinary burglar alarms, for if the thief is foolhardy enough to put his hand in the pocket...
[shrugs]
Himself - Host: There are a few bugs in it. Once when a thief put a hand in my pocket, the snake became confused and struck in the wrong direction. The doctor had to put a tourniquet around my stomach. Unfortunately, that proved to be the wrong stomach. It was the snake who died. I see that it is now what my sponsor calls 'high time' and here is what he thinks it is high time for.