The Alfred Hitchcock Hour : How to Get Rid of Your Wife

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour : How to Get Rid of Your Wife (1963)

Genres - Drama  |   Run Time - 60 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

After 15 miserable years of matrimony, mousy Gerald Swinney (a superbly cast Bob Newhart) asks his wife, Edith (Jane Withers), for a divorce. She refuses, at which point Gerald stammers, "Well, uh, Edith, I guess I'll, uh, have to get rid of you." No, Gerald doesn't intend to murder Edith -- merely to make her think he is going to murder her. Before long, Edith is going crazy with anxiety...and that is only step one of Gerald's master plan. (Trivia note: the famous Leave It to Beaver house on the Universal studio lot is very much in evidence in this episode -- four years before it was converted into the equally famous Marcus Welby, M.D. house.)