Alfred Hitchcock Television
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The Landlady
NEW
Black
& White version
(AHP):
Billy Weaver (Dean Stockwell),
a mild-mannered bank clerk, arrives in a
small
provincial town in England looking for a new residence, and finds a boarding
house with thrifty rates. The landlady (Patricia
Collinge) is a little peculiar, but
Billy shrugs it off, assuming her rational mind expired from age. She explains
that there are two other boarders, but it strikes him strange that he never sees
them. One afternoon Billy has tea with his landlady, and observes that her pet
parrot is not really alive, but rather stuffed. Asking her about it, she
explains that she has all of her pets stuffed after they pass away, a talent she
possesses and occasionally practices. All too late, Billy realizes... Directed
by Paul Henreid.
First aired 2/21/1961.
COLOR
version
(Tales Of The Unexpected):
Billy Weaver (Leonard Preston),
a 17-year-old
Londoner, arrives in Bath late at night to take up a new job. He finds a room
for the night at a bed-and-breakfast house run by a sweet old woman (Siobhan
McKenna). As he signs the guest
book, Billy feels sure he recognizes the names of the two previous guests.
Where on earth can he have heard of them before? As he drinks a cup of tea with
a curiously bitter-almond flavor, the owner of the boarding house is telling
Billy she is an amateur taxidermist... Story by Roald
Dahl, Screenplay by
Robin Chapman,
Directed by Herbert Wise.
First aired 4/21/1979.
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