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Back For Christmas episode

posted 18 years ago by Tsquared23
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Does anyone remember the very ending of this episode? I just watched it, but the last 2 minutes were cut off (a cruel trick no doubt). It's the episode where the husband and wife are going to America for nine months, and the husband kills the wife and buries her in the greenhouse. He leaves for America, with all their friends believing she went with him. I saw it up to the point where he's in America in his hotel room and the phone rings. Nice, huh? I'd be most grateful if anyone remembers the ending. Thanks.

[–] jgiles20 18 years ago

I love that episode. It is one of my favorites. Anyway, if I remember correctly, the man receives a phone call telling him that the greenhouse or whatever it was was about to be landscaped as a Christmas present to the man from his wife. So, while completing the landscaping, the wife's body will be found and thus pointing the finger at the husband. He thought he had it all figured out, but did not realize his wife had planned to hire someone to do all of the tedious work for him that he had been in the middle of doing while they planned to leave for America. Again, great episode. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did (what you saw of it anyway).

[–] Tsquared23 18 years ago

Thank you SO much for replying. That is a great ending. Very TOTU. I appreciate you taking the time.

[–] jasonhurd 18 years ago

Just wanted to put in a good word for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents version of Back For Christmas. It starred John Williams and Isobel Elsom and was also quite good.

[–] jgiles20 18 years ago

I agree, jasonhurd. I loved Hitchcock's version of Back For Christmas. I really enjoy seeing John Williams in these anthology episodes (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchock Presents). He is always memorable. Back For Christmas is such a great story, both on Hitchcock and Tales of the Unexpected. Thanks for mentioning it. More people should see it if they haven't already.

[–] sim75 13 years ago

The thing that I love about this episode is that all hinges on one, almost throwaway, line in the first five or ten minutes of the show when the woman is speaking to her friend about the grounds of the house. Those are the kind of tales I like, where one small detail from early one comes home to roost.

Top episode!!!!

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