1962 · N.p.
by Alfred Hitchcock, Diana Dors, Brandon De Wilde (starring); Joseph Lejtes (director); Robert Bloch (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1962. Draft script for Season 7 Episode 39 of the 1955-1962 television series.
A magician decides to take in and mentor a simple-minded runaway, but the magician's cold-hearted wife exerts an unusual control over the boy. The episode was nearly shelved after a sponsor declared the content disturbing, and was not given a network airing, going unaired until the series was sold into syndication.
Screenwriter Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received (truncated)
A magician decides to take in and mentor a simple-minded runaway, but the magician's cold-hearted wife exerts an unusual control over the boy. The episode was nearly shelved after a sponsor declared the content disturbing, and was not given a network airing, going unaired until the series was sold into syndication.
Screenwriter Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received (truncated)