BryanGSimmons wrote:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EQM9NiH6FWidB3gq9

Nice pics there...

I also bought a bale of straw to grow some mushrooms, but the first ones
will be wine caps. I bought the spawn last Saturday.

BEWARE...!!!


Alfred Hitchcock Presents - 'Special Delivery'

Episode aired Nov 29, 1959

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508248/

"Young Tom Fortnam is thrilled when he receives his guaranteed to grow mushroom seeds by special delivery mail...

His father Bill is then approached by a friend, Roger, who thinks people are disappearing...

Bill isn't quite sure what to make of it all until Roger's wife calls him to say that Roger has vanished, as has all of his clothes. When he visits Roger's house, he sees that Roger's son, who is the same age as Tom, is also busy growing mushrooms in the
basement. Convinced there is a connection, Bill confronts his son - with fantastic results..."

TRIVIA:

"The verse spoken by "Roger" (played by Frank Maxwell), "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes" is a quote from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth...

Ray Bradbury, who wrote this 1959 episode of the series, published a full-length novel entitled "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in 1962, which was based on his 1948 short story "The Black Ferris." A 1983 movie was made with the same Ray Bradbury title
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)..."

USER REVIEW:

"Terrific episode for those who don't mind a dash of sci-fi in their Hitchcock. Young entrepreneur Peter Lazar sends away for a mushroom deal that promises quick profits by growing them in your own home. He's excited, and so are his Ozzie and Harriet
parents. The next day a neighbor darkly summons Dad with incredible stories about people disappearing for no reason. Dad is unsettled since the neighbor seems so convincing, but then he becomes alarmed when the neighbor too inexplicably drops out of
sight. What's going on? The final scene is one of the spookiest of all the Hitchcock entries.

Ray Bradbury did the script, accounting for why the details add up so effectively and the suspense builds so nicely. The lines including the voice-overs are especially literate and unsettling. In fact, this is one of those typically 50's productions that
implies a sense of mounting unease beneath an outwardly calm and composed suburbia that might at any moment be invaded by an insidious enemy..."

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