S1, episodes 32, 33, and 34

1.32 

Brassy older babysitter (Thelma Ritter) is speaking to a police sergeant about an unsolved murder. She relishes the attention. Much of the story is flashback: she has a crush on the father of the young woman who was killed (who, we are later told, had a blonde beaver). 

So did she do it? This theory is raised by her friend, making me think she could not be the culprit. Not a bad episode. 

Period detail: trying to lose weight, she buys the bungee-cord like exercise tool. Actually, I didn't know they had these things back then.

1.33. 

The Belfry. It sounds old-fashioned, and I think this is set several decades before 1955 (funny how I have a hard time identifying the period episodes. The 1950s look so old).

We're in a small town where the local simpleton commits an axe murder in the opening minutes. The tale  is about him hiding. Pat Hitchcock is a school teacher and his love interest. (Period detail she is paid $60/month). 

Dabbs Greer is the sheriff; he lived long enough to appear in the Green Mile, Lizzie McGuire and Con Air. All told, I found the setting more interesting than the story.

1.34.

AH holds up a gun “This is for the man who has everything. It's to enable you to take some of it away from him.” Bwahh!

A man and woman are in a car. They want to get a burger. She wants to drive. “If you’re too lazy to just to walk across the street...” So they walk. (Period detail: she tells him to order her a rare burger.) She needs to return to get her bag and is killed by a car. 

The rest involves a mysterious man who can tap into lost memories (i.e., the license plate of the hit and run driver). “Have you ever heard of total recall?” (not Total Recall).

The ending is mightily deflating.