Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Really preferred the half hour episodes but this hour long one was superb. Very well written with a very good cast. The pacing was also good enough that it almost seemed like a half hour episode. Won't give the ending away except to say you'll probably be as surprised as I was.

Stumbled upon this late night. Fun, and disturbing, and satisfying. Recommend.

This young woman is alone in a beach house. She is married to a much older rich man. It is foggy and sort of creepy. She is settling down when the doorbell rings. It's a Hispanic man who wants to use her phone. He is out of gas and his girlfriend is alone in the car. It is perfectly understandable that she won't let him in. What transpires is that the woman is now in the hospital and the man from the door is about to be taken into custody. He threatens her as he is taken away. What then happens is a trip to the hospital to see how the woman is and she is confronted by the man she turned away. She has befriended some surfers and actually goes out with them. But there's more to the story. Well done little drama.

Karen (Inger Stevens) is home alone, as her husband is away on a business trip. She obviously is NOT comfortable being home alone and when a Hispanic man knocks on her door and says he needs to use the phone because he ran out of gas, she refuses to let him inside the house. A bit later, the police show up with the man...and she recounts what happened earlier. In addition, she tells them that she thinks she heard a scream...and it turns out when the man was walking to the gas station, someone attacked his wife. It is a VERY unfortunate situation....and you can understand her behaviors and the man's anger towards her since she refused to help. Why she didn't call the police when the man said he needed help OR when she heard the scream, I have no idea.

The next day, a neighbor drops by and some surfers do as well. In these cases, Karen lets them inside...and perhaps it's because she knew these people or perhaps it was because it was daytime. Or, perhaps they were all white people. Who knows? Regardless, her husband had rushed home because she had called him, hysterical, the night before...and he was surprised to see her out surfing with these guys. So, he returns to finish his business trip...leaving her home alone once again. What's next? See the show.

Karen's behavior during this show is pretty inconsistent...especially in the second half of the episode. After all, a woman was beaten horribly the night before...and you'd think Karen would exercise much more caution...which, oddly, she doesn't. And, of course BAD THINGS are loomin'!

This is a pretty good installment of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", though it seems more like a cop show than "Alfred Hitchcock". Not bad and providing a few surprises...even if Karen IS a very inconsistently written character.

Well staged and fairly suspenseful episode. Looks like Sanchez (Dark) wants to get even with Malibu housewife who wouldn't let him in her house to make an emergency phone call. Now Sanchez' girl-friend is dead and he doesn't care that Karen (Stevens) was alone and understandably frightened on that fog-bound night. Why won't he understand since she now feels all kinds of remorse.

Since it's Hitchcock, you know things can't be as they seem. But how are they really. Good thing Karen has the three strapping beach boys protecting her until husband gets back from San Francisco. But what's taking hubby so long, and why's weirdo writer Simon (O"Herlihy) hanging around and drinking up all her booze. Then there's that beeping fog horn reminding us minute by minute of the menace. No doubt about it, Karen's a Woman In Danger.

Sad to see that sparkling actress Inger Stevens in the flower of life, knowing she would soon die by her own hand. And catch Sinatra buddy Christopher Dark as the revenge-obsessed Sanchez. Though good, this isn't a top entry since the ending appears too contrived to be satisfying. Nonetheless, there're the usual series compensations to carry us along.