1.7.
AH directs (as he does only occasionally) and Joseph Cotton stars. This is a morality play about about a businessman who lays off one of his long time workers by telephone. He's disgusted by the man's simpering (“He didn’t have to weep about it"). While driving a convertible and not wearing a seat belt (period detail), the businessman is in a crash and winds up off the road a good ways. Will he be rescued? This sort of thing is a nice change of pace from the usual episode.
1.8
AH is tasting wines and one has arsenic in it (“very good, really, that is if you like a very dry wine”). The episode itself is based on a story by Dorothy Sayers.
We begin with some bickering between a husband and his cook, Mrs. Sutton. She offers to make him lamb curry for dinner (clearly thumbing her nose at future generations who condescend to 50's cuisine).
Meanwhile, the newspapers are filled with stories about a murderous housekeeper who is on the loose, and the husband begins to wonder whether Mrs. Sutton is this woman. Did she put arsenic in his cocoa? Great twist ending.
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