User Reviews

Even though this program had a stunning conclusion, you can't really say anything definitive about the book of matches that was found beside the body of Valerie Anderson (Kathleen O'Malley) at the time of her death. There's a strong implication that police sergeant Cresse might have been responsible due to a hole in his pocket, but we can't know that for sure. What we do know for sure is that Cresse went to extraordinary lengths to frame Andrew Anderson (David Wayne) for his wife's murder. Ransacking Anderson's home should have been enough to get him fired had his associate (King Calder) voiced his suspicions to a higher authority. And how would Cresse have had access to Anderson's office at the Vincent Industrial Design Company in order to fool with the calendar and leave a handwritten note purportedly from Anderson's wife. Wouldn't Andy have known what Valerie's handwriting looked like? And speaking of that calendar, how and where do you find one with a page for February 31st? That might have been a neat hook for the title of the story, but it really doesn't hold up if you think about it. There's also the matter of the switched business letter with the inter-office memo that got sent to Gordon of Kiddie Modes. Shouldn't Miss Wright, the secretary have been called on the carpet for that error causing major embarrassment to the company? Given the anomalies and plot holes throughout the story, the best I can say about it is David Wayne's characterization of a business executive slowly going mad over a situation he couldn't control or explain. The closing shot of Sergeant Cresse contemplating the damage he'd done to destroy an individual wasn't enough to make you feel good about the episode, knowing that he should have been held to account for his abuse and flawed investigation.

***SPOILERS*** It was the tragic and accidental death of his wife Valerie, Kathleen O'Halley, that touch off this paranoia that in the end drove her grieving husband advertising executive Andrew Anderson, David Wayne, mad and into a lifetime stay in a mental institution.If that, his wife's death, wasn't enough the cop assigned, or better yet who assigned himself, to the case Sgt.Cresse, William Connerd,did his best to put him there.

It's just after his wife's death that strange things started to happen to Andy Anderson that in fact made him feel guilty for a crime that he didn't commit. Either he was going out of his mind or better yet someone was driving him mad didn't present itself until the Alfred Hitchcock episode was just about over. Not all that wrapped too thigh to begin with it didn't take much to unravel the guy into going nuts and on a road to self destruction by convincing him that his loyal wife Valerie was cheating on him and giving him every reason to convince himself that he in fact murdered her! Slowing losing his mind and being unable to do his job as an advertising executive Anderson started to flip out and start to get unusually friendly with his pretty co-worker Holly O'Rouke, Elizabeth Allen, even going so far, just days after his wife's death, as to propose marriage to her. This after a fit of insanity where he almost ended up ringing her neck in mistaking her for his diseased wife Valerie

.***SPOILERS***It was in the end when Anderson was beyond help that the truth came out in just what drove him to end up in the funny farm and it was non other then the person in charge of his wife's so-called "Murder" case Sgt. Creese himself! Not in him just doing his job but going far beyond doing it! Which caused an innocent man, Andrew Anderson, to end up insane and in a mental ward and having himself having to live the rest of his life with the terrible thought that he was responsible for it!

BEWARE: MAJOR SPOILERS.

Yes, I agree to the other comment. I have rarely seen such a story with so few morals. Let me explain: from the very start, the audience knows that the unfortunate husband did not kill his wife. So when he starts receiving mysterious letters, everybody wonders where they may come from. The climax is when we find out these letters and many other clues were made by the unscrupulous cop Conrad to put he blame on the husband whom he suspected to have committed murder; but, unfortunately for him, without sufficient evidences. So, the cop made these evidences. The match trick at the very end, is not so useful after all, it only shows that the cop finally was fooled because of a match found on the woman death scene, and supposed have been dropped by the husband. But we, the audience, had already known that the poor husband was for nothing in his wife's death. The poor husband who finally got mad, convinced that he killed his own wife. Yes, a very sad and moral less story. But what a terrific tale. One of the best for sure of th whole show.