This was an unusual role for Tony Randall, who you usually associate with affable, good guy characters like Felix Unger from "The Odd Couple". He did a good job here as an alcoholic plateau drinker in this story of an ad executive about to lose his wife because of his addiction. Totally wasted while giving an important sales presentation (did you get a load of that futuristic Colton car?), Hadley Purvis (Randall) is fired by his fuming boss (Tyler McVey), having reached the end of his rope with Hadley's embarrassing performance. The episode traces Hadley's bouts with memory loss following his drinking binges, with one in particular landing him at home with a woman (Jayne Mansfield) he picked up in a bar, while his wife Sandy (Dodie Heath) is nowhere in sight. Attempting to reconstruct events of the past day or two, Purvis is finally met with the grisly realization that his drinking was more than just way out of control. Host of the series, Alfred Hitchcock himself, dispenses with his usually humorous epilog to opine on the curse of alcoholism with a sobering commentary, something he did now and then in the interest of public service.
Review of Hangover
