The Cadaver

Season 2 - Episode 8: The Cadaver
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.
Episode Information
TV Show
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Season
Season 2
Episode Number
8
Air Date
November 29, 1963
Runtime
60 minutes
Rating
3.5/5
Guest Stars

Bronwyn FitzSimons
Student

Michael Parks
Skip Baxter

Ruth McDevitt
Mrs. Fister

Joby Baker
Doc Carroll
Martin Blaine
Professor Dawson

Don Marshall
Tom Jackson
Crew

Alf Kjellin
Director

James Bridges
Writer
Robert Arthur Jr.
Story