Apex

This "AHP" episode from 1962 season 7 called "Apex" is one that's interesting and it takes a turn at the end that you didn't see coming as this was a well done and good episode for it's day and time. It features a married couple Claude and Clara and they run a business together, yet on the side Claude is having an affair with Margo a younger and attractive younger lady. And Clara finds out and she wants a divorce with no settlement money for Claude and never fear Margo and Claude have a plan to rid Clara with a hit man! Only you never would think about it, but Margo decides to take matters into her own hands a plan that backfires, it proves that when you try to hard and do stuff yourself you learn a painful lesson! Overall good episode with drama and it twist like a good mystery suspense show should!

Like his famous father, Alan Crosland, Jr., got some excellent performances from this cast. The unforgetable story (perhaps one of the series best) about a not too perfect marriage --and what to do about it.

Mark Miller (who passed in 2022 at the age of 98) plays a business executive who apparently owes everything to his wealthy wife -- who owns the company. If he divorces her he's in the street, but does he have enough nerve to kill her?

Naturally, Mark also has a beautiful neighbor and mistress called Margo, played by Patricia Breslin, best in these type of roles. Margo seems to be cut from the same cloth as Mark, and perhaps, she can help him out of his predicament.

Broadway actress Vivienne Segal, who appeared in a few other episodes, is also quite good as Mark's seemingly doomed wife, Clara. And you really feel sorry for her.

A fabulous episode you have to see through, and with another OUTRAGEOUS ending. Credit writer John T. Kelley, who wrote two episodes for Hitch, later co- writer for PLANET OF THE APES (1968).

Note; recordings of the famous hit "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" originally sung by Segal on stage were discovered by researchers, making her a part of music history. She passed in 1992 at age 95.

SEASON 7 EPISODE 24. Remastered.

All seven seasons are now on dvd in a single box set. Released 2022.

A man is having an affair with his neighbor. However, you soon learn that his wife owns the company he works for and promises he'll get nothing if he ever cheats on her. So, he decides to kill his wife so he can have it all. But on the night of the murder, he chickens out. As a result, his mistress decides to do the job herself...and some unintended consequences occur!

This is a very good and creepy episode...one where there's a welcome twist. See the show and see exactly how and why their plans go awry. I'd say more, but really don't want to ruin the 'fun'!