S3.E11

Consider Her Ways

Episode aired Dec 28, 1964
TV-PG
48m

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Barbara Barrie and Gladys Cooper in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Do... Read allA woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.

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The title comes from a verse in the Holy Bible. Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways..."

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Dr. Jane Waterleigh: Suppose that in ridding society of a pest it has gotten along with for centuries, you also destroyed society.
Dr. Perrigan: Sort of throwing the baby out with the bath water, hmm?
Dr. Jane Waterleigh: Or the operation was successful, but the patient died.

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9/10

Much more like a "Twilight Zone" episode than an installment of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour".

The plot to "Consider Her Ways" is really weird...much more like an episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits" than "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". In many ways, it's as if the human race has become like insects! Let me explain. In the future, a drug has had unexpected results. Instead of just eliminating brown rats, it wiped out men! As a result, society needed to change radically for it to continue. So, in this future world, women are assigned duties like Workers, Mothers, Doctors and Servitors.

Jane (Barbara Barrie) is from 1964 and is a doctor. However, she suddenly awakens to find herself in this future society where she is a Mother. And, as a Mother, she is taken care of like a Queen Bee....she's fattened up and taken care of by the Workers. She is NOT expected to read or do anything productive...just spit out babies! And, the women around her are alarmed that she doesn't fit in and doesn't want to fit in to their world. Apparently, she's time traveled and no one seems to understand that...and she certainly has no idea why nor how it's occurred.

This is a very fascinating bit of sci-fi....very clever as well. Well worth seeing....and very creepy! It also helped that the ending was quite good...satisfying and weird.