Alfred Hitchcock Presents S01E13 The Cheney Vase

The Cheney Vase
First aired: 12/25/1955
Writer: Robert Blees
Director: Robert Stevens
Guest star: Carolyn Jones (Pamela Waring), Darren McGavin (Lyle Endicott), Patricia Collinge (Martha Cheney), George Macready (Homer Koether), Ruta Lee (Ruby Boyenton), Kathryn Card (Bella)
Global rating: 7.5
Martha Cheney, an elderly invalid, has only one preoccupation in life. She wants to protect a priceless vase that has been in her family for generations. Lyle Endicott, a dishonest ex-museum curator, wants the vase and uses a forged letter to get close to Miss Cheney and the vase.