Q: I like to watch "Shark Tank." Are all the deals made with the sharks successful?
A: No. As you often see in the non-TV business world, some products don't become successful, or deals collapse. But there have also been reports about products rejected on the show that became successes anyway.
Hitchcockian
Q: I remember a show I saw as a kid and I'm trying to figure it out. It was an episode in which a rich female prisoner pays the prison grave digger to hide her in a casket with a dead body and to dig her back up so she can escape. She is in the coffin and finds a matchbook, and when she lights the match and sees the dead body it's that of the grave digger. It scared the heck out of me. Can you fill me in?
A: That was a segment of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" called "Final Escape." In fact, it's two segments. It was first done in 1964 for the original Hitchcock series with Edd Byrnes (Kookie from "77 Sunset Strip") as the convict.
When it was redone in 1985 as part of a Hitchcock TV revival, the genders were switched so the main character was a woman played by Season Hubley.
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