1.18
Ray Bradbury wrote this baby, as AH tells us. We see three deaths: car crash, man falls out of building, and a fire caused by a cigarette.
It's a hot day. Two retired insurance men (a bit of forced exposition tells us this) are observers in the tenement district. “More murders committed at 92 degrees than at any other temperature.” They confront a brash working class woman, who they see as a specimen rather than a person.
"Your place is a death trap."
"You want me to fix the gas leak? How am I gonna pay for it?"
"I understand your problems."
"Oh, baloney!”
The ending is implied rather than shown. This is a "serious" episode that illustrates the gap between the social reformers and those they try to help. The story was used again in Ray Bradbury Theatre (1990).
1.19.
An absurdly spoiled wife buys stole for $1,700. “I warned you I was expensive, if you can’t afford me on your income, do something about it," she says to her husband.
The financial pressures make him desperate. A couple of petty crooks appear at his home. One of the actors died two months later, the other lived long enough to appear in Seinfeld (the Bette Midler episode). This is the most interesting thing I have to say about this episode.
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