"Don't Look Behind You" is a very flawed episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". While the plot idea itself isn't bad, the characters are mostly awful...one dimensional weirdos who just don't exist in the real world. This alone ruined the episode for me.
Daphne (Vera Miles) is supposed to go to a faculty dinner at some college and her boyfriend Harold (Jeffrey Hunter) is supposed to escort her there. But he's late, and she goes through the woods to get to the dinner. On the way through these woods, she feels as though someone is following her and towards the end, she rushes through the place as quickly as she can. Now this makes no sense, as apparently a woman was slashed to death in these same woods....and so Daphne goes there?? What also doesn't make sense are the weird professors at the party....who talk about the murder and say all sorts of things that would seem to incriminate themselves! As for Harold, she shows up a bit late and is the weirdest of all...talking with a strange earnestness which is just baffling. Sure, he's a psychology professor, but he sounds so excited about the killing that it's just creepy and makes little sense. Later, he and Daphne go through the woods AGAIN and find a woman who's been attacked and bloodied but is still alive. Again...why go through these woods...especially at night?! What's next? Well, rest assured none of it makes a lot of sense and the characters are just plain weird.
While the episode did a great job in setting a scary situation, it really fell down when it came to the characters in the show. I really felt bad for some of the actors as they could act given better material...and Jeffrey Hunter...well...he was amazingly goofy...even more than the rest of these knuckleheads. The show also had no idea when to end and really could have used a trimming. Overall, a really poor installment...one that really annoyed me because it was so shoddy and didn't need to be.