"Memo from Purgatory" is a decent episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" but it's most notable for its cast. It features some future big stars, such as James Caan and Walter Koenig (Chekov from "Star Trek")...as well as familiar character actors, Tony Musante, Zalman King and Lynn Loring. For this reason alone it is worth seeing.
Jay Shaw (Caan) has a kooky idea...to join a tough street gang and then use this experience to write a story about it. So, he finds the toughest gang (?) and is able to impress the gang leader (Koenig)...enough so that he's invited to become a member. However, one of the gang members (Musante) instantly hates Jay and vows to destroy him.
The story is hard to believe, but also tense and exciting. Not a brilliant episode but a very good one....and most importantly, an original one. It's also notable that many of the episodes preceding this one were HUGE disappointments....so it's good to see the show is capable, still, of a decent episode.
Jay Shaw (Caan) has a kooky idea...to join a tough street gang and then use this experience to write a story about it. So, he finds the toughest gang (?) and is able to impress the gang leader (Koenig)...enough so that he's invited to become a member. However, one of the gang members (Musante) instantly hates Jay and vows to destroy him.
The story is hard to believe, but also tense and exciting. Not a brilliant episode but a very good one....and most importantly, an original one. It's also notable that many of the episodes preceding this one were HUGE disappointments....so it's good to see the show is capable, still, of a decent episode.