The Cadaver

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 2 Episode 8

Overview:
Medical student Skip Baxter has an alcohol problem and a practical joke playing roomate named Doc Carroll. Doc wants Skip to quit drinking and cooks up a scheme. He takes a cadaver from the medical school morgue and dresses it to look like a waitress named Ruth. He then puts it into Skip's bed as he is sleeping off a hangover. When Skip wakes up, he sees the body and becomes convinced that he committed murder in an alcoholic stupor. He wraps the body in a rug and disposes it. When he returns to school, he finds out that Ruby is alive and that Doc has gotten into trouble for stealing a cadaver. Skip agrees to replace the body to get skip out of trouble. At the next anatomy class, the professor reveals the replacement cadaver to be the body of Doc Carroll.

Genre : Crime, Mystery, Drama

Actors : Alfred Hitchcock

Release Date : 1963-11-29

Duration : 51 menit

Rating : ⭐ 7.5/10 (2 votes)

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Other Episodes (Season 2)

A Home Away from Home
1. A Home Away from Home
A Nice Touch
2. A Nice Touch
Terror in Northfield
3. Terror in Northfield
You'll Be the Death of Me
4. You'll Be the Death of Me
Blood Bargain
5. Blood Bargain
Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
6. Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
Starring the Defense
7. Starring the Defense
The Cadaver
8. The Cadaver
The Dividing Wall
9. The Dividing Wall
Good-Bye George
10. Good-Bye George
How to Get Rid of Your Wife
11. How to Get Rid of Your Wife
Three Wives Too Many
12. Three Wives Too Many
The Magic Shop
13. The Magic Shop
Beyond the Sea of Death
14. Beyond the Sea of Death
Night Caller
15. Night Caller
The Evil of Adelaide Winters
16. The Evil of Adelaide Winters
The Jar
17. The Jar
Final Escape
18. Final Escape
Murder Case
19. Murder Case
Anyone for Murder?
20. Anyone for Murder?
Beast in View
21. Beast in View
Behind the Locked Door
22. Behind the Locked Door
A Matter of Murder
23. A Matter of Murder
The Gentleman Caller
24. The Gentleman Caller
The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
25. The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
Ten Minutes from Now
26. Ten Minutes from Now
The Sign of Satan
27. The Sign of Satan
Who Needs an Enemy?
28. Who Needs an Enemy?
Bed of Roses
29. Bed of Roses
The Second Verdict
30. The Second Verdict
Isabel
31. Isabel
Body in the Barn
32. Body in the Barn


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