When Hitchcock Presents went from its original half-hour to an hour format, the quality dropped off noticeably. The tight plots and twist endings of the earlier period were too often stretched to fill the required 50-plus minutes and the stories sagged under too much padding.
Arguably however this is the best of the hour-long lot, since the suspense never lets up. A maniac who only kills nurses is loose. Meanwhile, two nurses including Dana Wynter and a drunken housekeeper are alone in an old mansion on a stormy night tending to a bed-ridden John Kerr. Another nurse only two miles away, they learn, is strangled, and needless to say, the three women are terrified as the tension mounts. Is he in the house-- they hear maniacal giggles. Why oh why did nurse Wynter forget to lock the basement window. Then too, how did the cat get out and when will the handyman return from town. As directed by ace movie veteran Joseph M. Newman and photographed by Citizen Kane's Stanley Cortez, the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding. We feel something is wrong, but what? Great ending, along with a very last shot whose graphic nature is unusual for TV of that time. If you catch only one of these 60 minute episodes, this is the one to scope out.