Okay, I confess that my renewed interest in #AlfredHitchcockPresents" isn't just about the comedic shtick Hitch indulges in especially when taking pokes at commercials and sponsors. He's something of a cross-era oddity much like the manual typewriter one used to find in the Doctor's TARDIS. He produced "plays" in the late 50's early 60s ish but he'll take a side jaunt into the 20s and 30s with an occasional visit to the turn of the last century....and such was the case of his departure from 1956 for a visit to the 1920s with a "play" based on a portion of a book written by Don Marquis.

Now, I've billed myself as a Don Marquis fan ever since I read "Archie and Mehitabel", but that was the ONLY work of his I'd read, so therefore I promised myself to explore his other books...and DAMN there are a lot of 'em! A lot of Archie/Mehitabel sequels to boot. However, a little digging revealed that Hitchcock's story was a segment out of "Danny's Own Story", and via Project Gutenberg, I began reading that one...only to run into a lot of racist caricature and jargon quite common for that era (and yes, Don Marquis was a humorist and you can expect caricatures from any humorist)...and thus conclude that I'd be better off starting my Marquis quest on the Archie/Mehitabel sequels instead.

I still want to read the original part of "Danny's" on which the Hitchcock production was based ("Crack of Doom") but I'll have to muster the stomach to do that first, I'm afraid--even though "Crack of Doom" was a helluva twisty story on its own merit. I must add that my decades-long fascination with Doctor Who is pretty much along the lines that I just described about Hitchcock's trans-era excursions and so Alfred is a suitable substitute for the Doctor until the BBC gets the eff off of Disney Plus.