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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 7 Episode 28

Ned Malley loves Annie his old dog, a Kerry Blue. Ned’s wife Thelma grows jealous. Though she likes the dog, she thinks her husband’s love for it is unhealthy. One day, Annie dies. Ned accuses his wife of murder. He slips an overdose of sleeping pills into her hot chocolate. As she slips into unconsciousness, Ned hears familiar barking. He goes to investigate, but trips on fatally injures himself. A neighbor calls the police who come and revive Thelma. As her dead husband is being taken away she wonders whether she should have bought him a new Kerry Blue.

Episode Title: The Kerry Blue

Air Date: 1962-04-17