episode 'one false step' is either serious plagiarism or they should have added a train going through a tunnel, doris day singing, someone falling off a national monument like the statue of liberty or mt rushmore. mel brooks did a similar homage to hitchcock in high anxiety, but high anxiety was funnier.
shareI added the trivia that the original novelist and screenplay writers are given credit here, so it isn't a ripoff. Just a reworking of the novel.
The 1958 episode "One False Step" (with Richard Long as the villain) was loosely based on Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train."
But a more blatant "homage" was the 1959 episode "The Fifth Stair" (also with Richard Long as the villain). This episode was almost a line by line copy of "Dial M for Murder" with even the same character names: Tony Wendice (Long) and Margot Wendice (Julie Adams).
Warner Bros. did that a lot with their shows. For example, there is an early Cheyenne episode that's basically an hour-long version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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There's also the Cheyenne episode "The Travelers," which was an adaptation of Along the Great Divide.
Recycling scripts is really par for the course for Warner Bros. You have One Fatal Hour, which was Five-Star Final in a radio station, and two movie adaptations of The Maltese Falcon before the John Huston version in 1941, not to mention Mystery of the Wax Museum being remade as House of Wax.
I was a little surprised that this episode (apparently) used the actual shot of the wife's murder in the glasses.
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Recycling scripts is really par for the course for Warner Bros. You have One Fatal Hour, which was Five-Star Final in a radio station, and two movie adaptations of The Maltese Falcon before the John Huston version in 1941, not to mention Mystery of the Wax Museum being remade as House of Wax.
No rip-off. Chandler, Highsmith, et al, were credited in the scroll at the end.
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