Season 1, Episode 13 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Cheney Vase,” stars Darren McGavin as Lyle Endicott, who is hired to be the personal assistant of Martha Cheney (Patricia Collinge). What he really wants is the money he’ll get when he takes a family heirloom, the Cheney Vase.

He’s already found a buyer in Herbert Koether (George Macready), but Cheney wants to keep the vase in her family until she dies. This may not be far from happening. And hey — Carolyn Jones is in this!

Directed by Robert Stevens and written by Robert Bless (Frogs), this seems like Endicott has it all figured out. Then again, this is an Alfred Hitchcock show, so it’s one thing to replace the maid and shut an older woman off from everyone else. It’s another thing to get away with it.

You can watch this on YouTube.