ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS – “GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY” (Jan 22, 1962) TV script

[Los Angeles]: Shamley Productions, January 22, 1962. Vintage original television script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm), 20 pp., self-wrappers, mimeograph, stapled. Dated 1/22/62, credited to Bryce Welten, Henry Slesar and J. W. Aaron. In blue ink, with revision pages on pink paper dated 2/6/62. Final page creased at blank margin, overall near fine.

This script belonged to actress Coleen Gray, who played the role of Mrs. Callen. She underlined her lines and left some handwritten notes.

This was episode 33 in season 7 and aired on Tue, May 22, 1962, and was broadcast under the title “The Opportunity“. Paul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager. When he catches Lois Callen shoplifting he hatches an idea. He tells Lois that he will not turn her in, if she agrees to be part of a plan of his. Paul wants a divorce, but his wife refuses to give him one because she doesn’t want him to take half of everything they own. When his wife is out of the house, he invites Lois over. Lois arrives and discovers the house burglarized. The burglary, however, is really Paul’s doing. He hopes that his wife Kate will divorce him now that her treasured possessions are all gone. Paul asks Lois to tie him up. She does so and leaves. Later Kate arrives and tells Paul how lucky he is that the burglars didn’t kill him. Instead of freeing her husband, however, she takes this opportunity to kill him. (IMDb)