Appointment at Eleven

I totally disagree with the other reviewer who stated this character is obnoxious. Or a bad actor. Or that the dialogue was bad.

I'm a physician who has an autistic son and I believe this character was written to be autistic. In that case, they did an excellent job.

I love this episode because it is so different from all the others in this anthology series.

This episode is simply and undeniably bad. First of all,it is a weak story. The attempt at suspense falls flat,because it is an empty gimmick. The story itself is not believable,plausible,or very likely. The star of the show is supposed to be 17 years old. He looks to be around 25 years old and behaves as if he's about 7 years old. If he'd behaved in real life 1959 anything like the way he did in this episode,he'd have been beaten to a pulp and tossed into the clink,quickly.

Somehow,his outrageous behavior is given a pass ? Baloney. A main plot point of this episode has something that is supposed to happen at 11pm. This point is mentioned over and over again in a weak attempt to build some suspense. When 11pm finally does come,the first thing that comes to mind is thank goodness it's almost over! This is a very poor episode of a usually much-better tv series. Skip it.

Now, I'm as big a fan of the series as anyone, but I've got to admit that this entry is a bomb. It's as bad as any I've seen. The best part is the first five minutes where we try to figure out what David's (Kimbrough) problem is. From that point on, dreary one-note is piled on dreary one-note. Kimbrough agonizes at a fever pitch that never lets up and is darn near agonizing to watch. In short, the performance is third-rate James Dean. Also, the screenplay fails to develop the 11 PM appointment gimmick in either interesting or suspenseful fashion. Nor does the plot build from one segment to the next. The three segments (Crane-Gulager-McClory) simply stretch out to fill the 30- minutes. And when the payoff (if you want to call it that) comes, it's hardly surprising. How this mess managed to pass the usually eagle-eyed production crew is perhaps the biggest mystery of all, proving I guess that even the best has its flops.

The main character that is. I'm not sure if it's a case of bad acting or the way it was written but this had to be the most obnoxious and annoying character in the history of this show.

The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because I kind of liked the twist at the end. Run, don't walk away from this clunker.

This is without a doubt the most poorly written, acted and directed Alfred Hitchock episode I've ever seen. Regardless of some hidden purpose some may think they had for having the most annoying main charcter ever, which I don't believe is so, it doesn't take away from the fact that watching it just once is more than enough.