<Tr> <Td> ← Previous "Disappearing Trick" </Td> <Td> Next → "Fatal Figures" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> Hitchcock presents this episode from a supermarket set where he's given a ticket "for blocking an aisle during the rush hour", even though he claims to have been in the slow lane . Patrick declares that he is leaving Mary, played by Barbara Bel Geddes, for another woman . The adaptation otherwise follows the original story, with Harold J. Stone as the police detective in charge of the investigation . At the end of the program, Hitchcock explains that Mary Maloney was finally caught after trying to bump off her second husband in the same manner, because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer", making the meat "as soft as jelly". </P> <P> In 1979 the story was adapted by Robin Chapman for Roald Dahl's British television series Tales of the Unexpected, with Susan George as Mary and Brian Blessed as the police detective in charge of the investigation of her husband's murder . This episode had a more dramatic ending than the original story: having finished the leg of lamb, all the police officers leave the kitchen, when the last one of them stops and holds up the leg bone looking at it intently . He then abruptly drops it in the bin . </P>

Lamb to the slaughter where does it take place