The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Season 2 Episode 18 - Final Escape
A convicted bank robber John Perry is sentenced to 15 years hard labor in a state prison lumber camp. Determined to get out, James befriend an alcoholic inmate named Doc. Doc is in charge of the prison infirmary as well as burials for the dead. Doc makes an offer to John: if John will fincance an operation for Doc's granddaughter, he will get him out of prison. Doc's plan is to hide Perry inside the coffin of the next inmate who dies. The coffin will then be buried and dug up after the gravediggers and guards leave. Perry will then make his escape. All goes according to plan, until Doc fails to dig Perry up. Perry then learns why when the shroud slips from the face of the corpse sharing the coffin with him. Its Doc who died of a heart attack the night before.
Episodes in Season 2
A Home Away from Home
60 min
A Nice Touch
60 min
Terror in Northfield
60 min
You'll Be the Death of Me
60 min
Blood Bargain
60 min
Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
60 min
Starring the Defense
60 min
The Cadaver
60 min
The Dividing Wall
60 min
Good-Bye George
60 min
How to Get Rid of Your Wife
60 min
Three Wives Too Many
50 min
The Magic Shop
60 min
Beyond the Sea of Death
60 min
Night Caller
60 min
The Evil of Adelaide Winters
60 min
The Jar
60 min
Final Escape
60 min
Murder Case
60 min
Anyone for Murder?
60 min
Beast in View
60 min
Behind the Locked Door
60 min
A Matter of Murder
60 min
The Gentleman Caller
60 min
The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
60 min
Ten Minutes from Now
60 min
The Sign of Satan
60 min
Who Needs an Enemy?
60 min
Bed of Roses
60 min
The Second Verdict
60 min
Isabel
60 min
Body in the Barn
60 min