![]() Fergusen offers to take Elsa to market, as Elsa has nothing to do in their new location by the sea, having been given advice by doctors to take a break after having a nervous breakdown. Fergusen (Bavier) before driving to work, and Mrs. Ralph Meeker as Carl Spann, Vera Miles as Elsa SpannĬarl Spann (Meeker) wakes up early for his first day at a new job and makes his wife Elsa (Miles) breakfast. ^ The 39th episode was never broadcast.Įpisodes Season 1 (1955–56) No.One thing for sure though, the episode wouldn't hold water today, with bank interest rates much less than one per cent. Probably not a hundred fifty thousand, but still a nice chunk to go along with Social Security in his old age. ![]() I mean, he worked for an investment company, he could have put the money to work earning compound interest and been a free man the whole time. Seems to me if he had the intelligence to swindle a couple hundred grand unnoticed, he should have been smart enough to move up in his organization to make more money, and afford to put some cash aside each week. With three years taken off for good behavior, Potter's release from his fifteen year sentence found him returning to the scene of the crime, so to speak, to return the original amount of money he stole. So unless he graduated when he was about forty years old, that idea wasn't very credible. Actor Hartman was in his mid-Fifties when he appeared in this story, and he looked it, but it was mentioned that he had worked at Metro Investments for thirteen years straight out of college. Would you trade your freedom for twelve years for a hundred fifty thousand dollar payoff? That's what this episode suggests, as mild mannered investment clerk, Milton Potter (Paul Hartman), embezzles two hundred grand from his employer, and promptly turns himself in to the police! All kinds of things wrong with this episode. The top-notch cast help move this little tale along without a hitch, culminating with Hitchcock's usual surprise ending-and not a dead body anywhere to be found. This episode was directed by the prolific and talented Arthur Hiller who's still with us after all these years. So there was method to his madness after all. On a luxury liner heading to the South Seas a few months later, Hartman tells a fellow passenger about how he "invested $200,000" and that over 12 years the interest and profit came to a staggering $150,000. Bray walks away thinking that Hartman's tour in prison must've made him a changed man-and in a way, he is. To his complete surprise, Hartman immediately fesses up where the money is hidden and is very contrite about the whole incident. Upon his release, Detective Bray visits him and tells him that he's still liable for the $200,000 and will keep his eyes on him until its recovered. He's out after 12 for good behavior, but not entirely off the hook. ![]() So off Hartman goes to prison for fifteen years. They think he's off his rocker and reluctantly send him to trial where he's quickly convicted of Grand Larceny. Even threatened with a long stretch in prison does nothing to dissuade this fellow, to the utter exasperation of Bray and Freed. Robert Bray and Bert Freed are the detectives who interrogate him fiercely because although he freely admits his crime, Hartman refuses to tell them where the money is. Paul Hartman of "The Andy Griffith Show" fame, stars as a mild-mannered and inconsequential clerk who steals $200,000 from his company and then meekly turns himself into the police.
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