The Initiation

Episode aired Jan 24, 1987
TV-PG

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

120

YOUR RATING

Dean Hamilton and Peter Spence in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A fraternity prank backfires, when a group of frat boys who love morbid practical jokes tells their nerd pledge to shoot their housemother with a gun filled with blanks.A fraternity prank backfires, when a group of frat boys who love morbid practical jokes tells their nerd pledge to shoot their housemother with a gun filled with blanks.A fraternity prank backfires, when a group of frat boys who love morbid practical jokes tells their nerd pledge to shoot their housemother with a gun filled with blanks.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

120

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Quotes
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: Good evening. I'm answering my correspondence. I receive some very interesting letters, threatening and otherwise.
[reading]
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: "Dear Mr Hitchcock, I am a man of 60, with a wife of 22. We have a handsome young man of 25 rooming with us. Yesterday I discovered ground glass in my sugar. Is this unusual? Anxious." Dear Anxious, yes this is unusual. I believe arsenic is customary in cases of this kind, but your wife is young: I'm sure she'll learn.
[reading again]
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: "Dear Mr Hitchcock, we have endured your snide and impertinent remarks about our commercials long enough. This is to warn you that..." So much for fan mail. Now we come to that part of the program for which the sponsor has been waiting. I am too prudent to describe it.